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    • Checkmate! Winning the Game of Communication: A Study of Conversational Principles 

      Kaul, Asha; Pandit, Anuradha (2009-09-01)
      Managerial communication in organizations can well be studied by using drama as a heuristic device to gain an understanding of the complexities governing structure of communication, goals of participants and application ...

    • Chemistry of effective management 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-18)
      A number of dimensions of top management philosophy or style are identified. Management philosophy may be considered risk taking or conservative, technocratic or oriented and seat-of-the-pants methods, participatory or ...

    • Chernoff and a new congruence axiom implies full rationality 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (2009-12-12)
      Rationality in choice theory has been an abiding concern of decision theorists. A rationality postulate of considerable significance in the literature is the weak congruence axiom of Richter (1971) and Sen (1971). It is ...

    • Chikungunya Epidemic Mortality in India: Lessons from “17th Century Bills of Mortality” still relevant 

      Mavalankar, Dileep; Shastri, Priya; Ramani, K. V. (2009-07-25)
      Chikungunya is a virus spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito, which recently reemerged as a massive epidemic in the Indian Ocean islands and India. Chikungunya is generally considered self-limiting and has been reported ...

    • Chikungunya Fever:A Killer Epidemic in Ahmedabad City, India 

      Mavalankar, Dileep; Shastri, Priya; Parmar, Jeram; Ramani, K. V. (2009-08-22)
      Background: The Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus native to tropical Africa and Asia and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. The symptoms of Chikungunya include sudden onset of fever, ...

    • China after Mao 

      Moulik, T. K. (2010-03-14)
      The working paper is based on a month-long visit to China investigating socialist development strategies of China. There has been significant shifts in development strategies in China in the Post-Mao era. The paper examines ...

    • Choice of a Retail Store and Retail Store Format: A Hierarchical Logit Model 

      Tripathi, Sanjeev; Sinha, Piyush Kumar (2009-07-30)
      The literature on store choice has mainly studied the store attributes, and ignored the consumer attributes in store choice. Even when, the consumer attributes have been incorporated the strength of relationship has been ...

    • Choice of elective courses in IIMA: an application of factor analysis 

      Raghavachari, M. (2010-03-14)
      The report is based on a study made to find the factors influencing the choice of elective courses by the second year students of IIMA. The statistical technique of Factor Analysis has been used to identify the factors.

    • Choice of estimated econometric models 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      One of the problems faced by researchers in the field of quantitative economics relates to choice of appropriate functional forms from amongst many that can be estimated on the basis of available data on a given set of ...

    • Choice of technology: some forethought on a socio - technical approach 

      Moulik, T. K.; Gupta, R. K. (2010-03-13)
      The unintended consequences of industrialisation in the form of social problems are a matter of growing concern. An even more challenge Pressging task is to industrialise the pre-industrial societies without creating similar ...

    • Choosing product features through users response: solar cookers 

      Sharan, Girja; Naik, Gopal (2010-03-31)
      The use of cooker in breakfast was limited. Dal, Rice, Khichadi, Kheer, Handva done in cookers tasted comparatively better, but not the vegetables. Preference of users for attributes of cookers was assessed through cojoint ...

    • Choosing the right mix: market state and institutions for environmentally sustainable industrial growth 

      Gupta, Anil K.; Prakash, Aseem (2011-09-02)
      Efficiency, Growth and Exports are the main items on nationzs economic agenda. There is some concern (perhaps not adequate) for developing Safety Nets for people hurt/left out by growth. Unfortunately environmental ...

    • Cigarette and liquor advertising in India an exploratory study 

      Mukhopadhyay, Sipra; Kureshi, Sonal (2010-03-24)
      The study examined cigarette and liquor ads in the print media in the context of consumer behaviour and legal/ethical issues. Subjects were drawn from three distinct segments, the vulnerable segment comprising of boys from ...

    • The Classic Conceptualisation and Classification of Distribution Service Outputs - Time for a Revision? 

      Waterschoot, Walter van; Sinha, Piyush Kumar; Haes, Joeri De; Lievens, Annouk (2009-09-04)
      Distribution service outputs structurally play a pivotal role in retail- and channel management. This paper critically assesses the nature of Bucklin’s classic formulation, which is concerned with numerically expressible ...

    • Classification of empirical work on sales promotion: a synthesis for managerial decision making 

      Vyas, Preeta; Mehta, Bijal (2010-07-22)
      Sales Promotion activities have gained strategic focus as markets are getting complex and competitive. Key managerial concerns in this area are budget allocation across elements of promotions as well as trade vis. ...

    • Classification of pathological stage of prostate cancer patients using personalized splines 

      Banerjee, Tathagata; Maiti, Tapabrata; Mukhopadhyay, Pashpal (2010-04-05)
      We propose a penalized splines based method to predict the pathological stage of localized prostate cancer.The improvement is shown to be statistically significant. Receiver operating characteristic curve is drawn and we ...

    • Classification shifting: do managers’ real actions matter? 

      Nagar, Neerav; Sen, Kaustav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
      McVay (2006) presents evidence that managers inflate core earnings by shifting operating expenses to special items. In this paper, we improve her model to estimate core earnings by controlling for a firm’s fundamental ...

    • Classification shifting: Impact of firm life cycle 

      Nagar, Neerav; Sen, Kaustav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)
      Purpose - This paper examines whether firms in the decline stage of life cycle manipulate core or operating income through misclassification of operating expenses as income-decreasing special items. Design/methodology/approach ...

    • Classification Using Association Rules 

      Dass, Rajanish (2009-08-03)
      Association rule mining is a well-known technique in data mining. Classification using association rules combines association rule mining and classification, and is therefore concerned with finding rules that accurately ...

    • Climate change and India: adaptation GAP 

      Garg, Amit; Mishra, Vimal; Dholakia, Hem H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Climate change is projected to have severe adverse impacts on India’s population, natural eco-systems, and socio-economic parameters. India’s vulnerability to climate change impacts is profound since around 650 million ...