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Crisis responses of competing versus noncompeting organizations
(2010-03-12)The purpose of the paper is to identify responses of organizations undergoing crisis when they are subjected to either much competition or little competition. -
Critical appraisal of past strategies for rural development in India
(2010-03-28)The paper examines the past experiments in RD in India, thinking from 1952 onwards, the three models available to India during the First Plan, the Community Development (CD) design, and administrative and economic strategies ... -
Critique of the history of higher education in India
(2010-04-17)The main argument of this paper rests upon the assumption that while the post-colonial education policy has emphasised the need for a truly national goal of education, arguing for a departure from the British racist system ... -
Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ... -
Cropping in Arid Area Greenhouse
(2009-08-21)In hot, arid regions, yields are low and unstable, growing season limited to one. Greenhouses can stabilize and improve yields and extend seasons. But their adoption is impeded by the requirement of large amount of water ... -
Cross cultural surveys and interviewing
(2010-03-13)Survey and interviews are the most widely used methods in cross cultural research. Some basic questions about designing of surveys have been raised. A paradigm of interview as a form of communication has been proposed. The ... -
A cross-cultural study of teaching effectiveness of the case method versus the lecture method of teaching in lecture-oriented environments: some preliminary findings
(2010-03-14)This paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing study in two West German Universities and the University of the Philippines which examines the comparative effectiveness of the case vs. lecture method of teaching. ... -
Cult of vishnu and Indian's economic development
(2010-04-17)The nature of the work ethic of a society may significantly shape the character of its economic development. It is argued that the cult of Vishnu and its associated work ethic have played a notable role in the economic ... -
Culture as a moderating factor on the effect of contextual variables on operating organizational structure
(2010-03-12)Organizational structure has been the focus of many studies in recent years. In most of these studies, the impact of culture on organizational structure is not considered. This paper argues that cultural values of the ... -
Culture development and task differences in prediction of performance: an information integration analysis
(2010-03-14)Past research showed that Indian children average information about motivation and ability in prediction of performance. However, a multiplying-type rule develops from an adding-type rule in American children. The present ... -
Current problems of family welfare programme administration and principles and techniques of management applicable to family welfare and reproductive health programme
(2010-03-31)We have identified several key problems in the family welfare programme. Many of these problems are not peculiar to the health programme but are problems of general administration of the Government. Hence along with specific ... -
A customer oriented approach to identifying competitive advantage
(2013-11-26)A firm’s ‘competitive advantage’ is considered to arise from certain ‘factors internal to the firm as postulated by the resource based view’ or from ‘external sources and industry structure.’ However, it remains unclear ... -
Cutting plane based methods for integer programs
(2010-03-29)A wide variety of integer programs belong to the class of hard combinational optimization problems, and there is no known algorithm to date to solve them in polynomial time. Examples are the multi item lot sizing problems, ... -
Cyclically adjusted PE ratio (CAPE) and stock market characteristics in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-09-29)We estimate the Cyclically Adjusted PE ratio (CAPE) for equity indices in the Indian market. We find the average CAPE ratio of the Indian market is lower than that of the US. Judging the market valuation level based on ... -
Damages in a consumer sale contract: Reviewing the consumer protection bill, 2015
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Consumer protection law rests on the foundations of contract law and the law of sale of goods. A consumer law has to conceptually express this foundation and the modifications it is bringing about in these laws. Without ... -
Data correcting algorithms for combinatorial optimization
(2009-12-12)This paper describes data correcting algorithms. It provides the theory behind the algorithms and presents the implementation details and computational experience with these algorithms on the asymmetric traveling salesperson ... -
Data correcting: a methodology for obtaining near-optimal solutions
(2010-01-16)In this paper we concern ourselves with the problem of finding near optimal solutions to function that are not amenable to solution by analytic means. This means that given a function and a parameter ? away from the optimal ... -
Data science for decision making in developing economies: A travesty of business investments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)Based on a recent survey of Analytics Adoption in Indian business organization, the author makes a claim that for most organizations grappling with the problem of incomplete and unorganized data, the tools of data science ... -
Data system for environmental impact assessment for humld-tropical regions: relevant issues
(2010-07-27)Environmental problems encountered in most of the developing countries arise due to conditions of poverty and under development as well as the negative effects of development progrmmes which have been badly planned and ... -
Data-correcting algorithm for the maximization of submodular functions: a multilevel search in the hasse diagram
(2010-01-16)The Data Correcting Algorithm (DCA) is a recursive branch and bound type algorithm, in which the data of a given instance is heuristically corrected at each branching in such a way that the new instance will be as close ...