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Does ghee sold by any brand smell as sweet? : quality attributes and hedonic price analysis of ghee
(2010-04-06)In the post-WTO scenario processed food industry is witnessing intra-industry trade, i.e., trade in similar products. It also means that there will be intense competition between foreign and Indian companies in the ... -
Does good corporate governance constrain cash flow manipulation? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Accounting frauds like Enron in the United States and Satyam in India are likely to have occurred due to the failure of firm-level corporate governance mechanisms in constraining unethical financial reporting practices. ... -
Does GST in India hurt producing regions? A new estimate of the tax base under GST of select states
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)GST as introduced in India being a destination based tax, does not encourage regions to vigorously promote manufacturing and tradable services industries. Being in the midst of its economic transformation, and given the ... -
Does inflation-unemployment trade-off exist in India
(2010-03-18)The hypothesis of extended Philips Curve is examined in the present paper using the Indian data over the period 1950-51 to 1984-85. The empirical evidence does not suggest any substantial trade-off between inflation and ... -
Does it work? information technology (IT) in welfare in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-04-09)The use of information technology (IT) in public administration is viewed as a significant tool for enhancing transparency and accountability. In popular rhetoric, these continue to be heralded as necessary and sufficient ... -
Does odd or even make a difference
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-14)The evidence from literature on ultimatum games suggests that proposers often split the stake equally when they make an offer. In this study we investigate the effect of odd size stakes (OSS) in ultimatum games. OSS prevents ... -
Does pharmaceutical price regulation result in greater access to essential medicines? study of the impact of drug price control order on sales volume of drugs in india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-09)In this paper, we empirically examine whether price regulation of generic essential drugs in India results in social welfare (in terms of increase in sales volume post regulation). In 2013, the Indian government enacted ... -
Does the emotional labor of the service employee affect the self-concept of the consumer in service organization?
(2009-08-21)In service interactions the management of service employee’s emotion through emotional labor has gained prominence and is becoming an active method to affect consumer’s behavior. Several researches have indicated that ... -
Does the Gravity Model Explain India’s Direction of Trade? A Panel Data Approach
(2009-08-08)In this paper we apply the gravity model to the panel consisting of India’s yearly bilateral trade data with all its trading partners in the second half of the twentieth century. The main conclusions that emerge from our ... -
Does Trade Make Asian Children Healthier?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization and international trade on the child health status of the Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies we have introduced the initial level of development and ... -
Does type-a moderate the stress-anger relationship in case of managers
(2010-03-23)The study reported in this paper examines the moderating role of Type-A pattern of behavioural disposition on the relationship between role stress and state-trait anger. A set of three psychometric instruments, namely, ORS ... -
Does working for a not-for-profit organization affect the psychology of corruption? evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)The primary purpose of this study is to examine if volunteering for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NPO) which are involved in providing social welfare services and which actively promote socio-behavioral factors like social ... -
Dominance of affective over cognitive customer satisfaction in satisfaction-loyalty relationship in service encounters
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The paper reports on a study which aims to understand the role of cognitive and affective components of customer satisfaction in service encounters. The paper is structured to explore a brief synthesis of the extant ... -
Don’t bother me as long as the client has no issues: control and resistance in telework
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Downsizing: some aspects of communication & social impact
(2010-01-16)This study, being essentially empirical in nature, is based on primary data relating to Indian organizations. The primary data has been collected through a sample survey based on a questionnaire focusing on the following ... -
Drop out enrollment and poverty: policy implications
(2010-03-29)Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to {withdraw| their children from school, (b) ... -
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ... -
Dynamic demand analysis of India's domestic coffee market
(2010-03-28)Coffee, although an important commodity in India's agricultural exports, has faced fluctuating international prices and decreasing unit value realisation, especially in the post-reform period. Hence, domestic market for ... -
Dynamic optimization with integral state equations
(2010-03-21)In this paper we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality in dynamic optimization problems governed by integral state equations. -
A dynamic pricing approach on electricity prices in Indian context
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-07)In this paper, we study the mechanism of dynamic pricing of electricity and its opportunities in the Indian context. We compare the economic efficiency of dynamic pricing vis-à-vis the traditional flat tariff of electricity. ...