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The expected stock returns of Malaysian firms: A panel data analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-09-01)We used panel data set of 1729 observations (247 Malaysian companies listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange for 1993-2000) to identify variables that could explain expected returns of Malaysian stocks. Our results are ... -
Expenditure allocation and welfare returns to government effforts - a suggested model and its application
(2010-01-18)The paper addresses the question of government expenditure allocation among sectors by extending the model developed by Archana Dholakia (1993) and illustrates its application by using the data on major Indian states from ... -
Experience with case method in short duration executive development programmes
(2010-03-14)Short Duration Executive Development Programme (SEDPs) bear certain characteristics that pose significant problems to instructors and coordinators in the effective use of case method in achieving the learning objectives ... -
Experiences of designing a case based compulsory marketing course for a masters level programme in management
(2010-03-14)This paper describes authors' experiences of designing a case based compulsory marketing course for Post Graduate Programme (PGP) in Management (equivalent to MBA) at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA). Given ... -
Experiences of various forms of commercial partnerships in Indian Railways
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2001-07-01)This paper brings out issues of governance between the Ministry of Railways and various service delivering commercial entities under the Ministry. Some of this is accentuated by both the ministerial and administrative ... -
Experiment on individual investment decision making process
(2010-03-13)This working paper reports an investigation into the decision making process of individual faced with a set of risky investment opportunities. An experiment was conducted on a set of students and the data generated from ... -
Experimental social psychology is real and scientific - a reply to Durganand Sinha
(2010-03-14)In his critique of experimental social psychology, Durganand Sinha views experimentation as an inadequate approach to complex social phenomena, and complains that social psychology are confined to problems for which methods ... -
Expert system for cost variance investigation
(2010-03-16)In a typical standard costing or budgetary control system, a manager might receive a variance analysis reporting several hundred variances, of which many may have arisen due to random factors, or may be too insignificant ... -
Explaining Access to Credit by Rural Households: Results based on a Study of Several States in India
(2013-11-23)Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Mangement in Agriculture ... -
Explaining foreign direct investments in Gujarat: a study based on an opinion survey of persons involved in the foreign direct investment process
(2010-07-26)There is much that Gujarat can do to attract the new manufacturing and service industries (offshore industries of a wide variety, IT and biotechnology industries). Besides the improvement of Governance especially with ... -
Exploiting the potential of the Indian software industry
(2010-04-05)This paper reports the findings of a study designed to understand the process of technology development with special reference to the nature of interaction between software firms and the technology supporting institutions ... -
An exploration of customer-supplier alliances and partnerships: A synthesis of literature review and empirical investigation leading to 3Rs framework
(2009-07-25)The marketing discipline is evolving and so is its agenda with the advent of relationship marketing, networks and other related sub-fields. Till recently, business literature focused largely on competition, and cooperation, ... -
An exploratory investigation of impact of perceived cannibalization on salesperson’s trust, commitment, job satisfaction, job performance and relational capital
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)With the increasing ubiquity of the Internet, organizations are using the Internet channel to increase overall performance, consolidate existing markets, and expand into new markets. The literature, however, contends that ... -
Exploratory study of decision making strategies and Organisational health in Maharashtra Phule Krishi Vidyalaya
(2010-03-18)The present study is an exploratory research project to analyze the decision-making strategies and Organisational health in a new multi-campus agriculture university. -
An Exploratory Study of Factors affecting MBA Students’ Attitude towards Learning via Case Study Pedagogy: Insights from Advertising Literature
(2009-08-21)Case based pedagogy has become popular in most business schools today, since the pioneering efforts made by Harvard Business School, several decades ago. Although the case method approach stands firmly on grounds its ... -
Exploratory study of international marketing in India: Indian firms, multinationals and their competitiveness
(2010-04-03)Indian firms are more international than ever before. Internationalization drives and export orientation are prominent in the organisational strategies of a number of leading Indian firms and multinationals located in ... -
Exploratory study of key performance areas and competency requirements of young management graduates
(2010-03-23)The study aimed at exploring the nature of activities and tasks performed by young management graduates and the skills (human, technical and conceptual) required to perform them effectively.Forty four management graduates ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Role of Educational Incentives in Primary Education in Gujarat
(2009-07-25)This study explores the role of incentives—monetary or non-monetary compensation offered to children so that an educational need is fulfilled or perceived cost is brought down—in attaining certain expected educational ... -
Exploratory study of viewers perceptions of television advertising
(2010-07-27)Study of Consumers' attitude towards advertising helps the advertisers in planning their advertising campaigns. By comparative evaluation of advertisements across different elements viz. Creative strategies, appeals and ...