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Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World
(2009-08-13)Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, many poor countries with ... -
Agro processing industries: Potential, constraints and task ahead
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)An agro- industry is an enterprise that processes bio- mass. i.e agriculture raw materials. Which include ground and tree crops as well as livestock and fisheries to create edible or usable forms. Improve storage and shelf ... -
Agro- climatic regional planning in India: Role of agro industries and infrastructure
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Ahmedabad disturbances: July 1973
(2010-03-14)This paper as an exploratory attempt, presents the facts which will provide some insight into the nature of the July 1973 disturbances, makes a preliminary diagnosis of the causes for the disturbances and suggests some ... -
Air pollution in Indian cities: short term mortality impacts and interactions with temperature
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Background: Indian cities are among the most polluted globally, yet assessments of short term mortality impacts due to pollution have been limited. Furthermore, studies examining temperature – pollution interactions on ... -
Airport Privatization in India:Lessons from the Bidding Process in Delhi and Mumbai
(2009-08-22)Modernization of Delhi and Mumbai airports had been considered as early as 1996 by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). In June 2003, the AAI board approved a modernization proposal. These airports accounted for 47% of ... -
Algorithm for the min - max loss rule for claims problems
(2010-04-08)In this paper we provide an algorithm which gives us the unique solution to the problem of minimizing the maximum loss (where loss is measured by unsatisfied demands) for a claims problem. The answer lies crucially on the ... -
Alienation as a moderator variable of the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance
(2010-03-14)This study examines the effects of alienation on the job performance-job satisfaction relationship among a sample of 200 blue collar workers of a state owned spinning mill located in North India. The A-Scale was administered ... -
Alienation: some theory, some research
(2010-03-14)Alienation is a much used concept in social sciences. The present paper attempts to bring together some important theoretical interpretations of alienation and also some recent Indian researches on alienation. An attempt ... -
Alliance capability, governance mechanisms and stakeholder management in complex settings
(2013-11-26)In today’s business environment, inter-firm alliances of simultaneous cooperation and competition (IASCC) have become very important for enhancement of internal resources as well as market shares of firms. Evidence ... -
Allocating tools to index positions in tool magazines using tabu search
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-13)The arrangement of tools in tool slots of a tool magazine is an important problem in automated machining environments. This problem is called the indexing problem and has been widely studied in the literature. In this paper ... -
Allocators' maturity as an explanation for inconsistency in cognitive algebra of reward distribution
(2010-03-14)According to equity theory, reward for a person should be proportional to his input or deservingness. Experimental tests of this ratio rule with information integration theory have not yielded consistent results. The same ... -
‘Allottees’ as financial creditors: pushing the conceptual limits of the Indian insolvency regime
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) was amended in June 2018 to include amounts raised from an allottee (any person to whom an apartment or plot in a real estate project has been allotted or sold) in a real ... -
Alternate second order conic programming reformulations for hub location with capacity selection under demand uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)In this paper, we study the single allocation hub location problem with capacity selection in the presence of congestion at hubs. Accounting for congestion at hubs leads to a non-linear mixed integer program, for which ... -
Alternate solution approaches for competitive hub location problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In this paper, we study the hub location problem of an entrant airline that tries to maximize its share in a market with already existing competing players. The problem is modelled as a nonlinear integer program, which ... -
Analysing technology strategies: some issues
(2010-07-27)A firm s technology strategy is influenced by the technology regime in which it operates. The regime is broadly defined by a combination of variables capturing industrial structure, nature of technical knowledge and ... -
Analysis of (S, s) inventory system with decaying items
(2010-03-14)This article obtains the stationary distribution of the inventory level of an (S, s) inventory model with decaying items. The demand to this inventory system is governed by a general renewal process. Items decay at a ... -
Analysis of a two-unit parellel redendant system with phase type failure and general repair
(2010-03-20)Explicit expressions for the Laplace transform of the reliability and availability of a general two-unit parallel redundant system are obtained. The Mean time to system failure and steady state availability are deduced as ... -
Analysis of agriculture industry linkages in Indian economic development
(2009-12-12)The purpose of this study is to examine the trends in India s growth rates and interdependency between agricultural and industrial sectors of Indian economy. A dual economic growth model was developed to investigate the ... -
Analysis of chipko: a sociopolitical economic culture and ecological view
(2010-07-27)This paper provides a new interpretation of the emergence of Chipko movement in Garahwal Himalayas. The new interpretation is in terms of changing cultural and material endowments of the region. Which finally produced a ...