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How has the Indian Corporate Sector Responded to Two Decades of Economic Reforms in India? An Exploration of Patterns and Trends
(2013-11-20)In the context of various policy initiatives made during the last two decades to reform the Indian economy in general and corporate sector in particular, the present paper attempts to assess how the firms have responded ... -
How informative are quantified survey data? evidence from RBI household inflation expectations survey
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-12-01)Quantification of the ordinal survey responses on inflation expectations ease and important preliminary step for undertaking further macroeconomic analysis of the data. In this paper, we briefly describe the standard ... -
How managers kindle learning processes
(2010-04-05)Organizational learning occurs when the insights and learnings of individual organization members are transferred to the larger organizational system. This paper examines how senior managers create processes which enable ... -
How many rupees worth of medicine does One need? comparison of medicine budgets in PHCs and expenditure on medicines for government employees
(2009-12-12)India has developed a large infrastructure for primary health care (PHC) unfortunately this infrastructure has not delivered results expected out of it. More and more clients are moving away from public to private health ... -
How much does money matter in India
(2010-03-23)How much money matters i.e. to what extent changes in the stock of money affect economic activity represented by nominal national income or real national income, has been hotly debated in the literature of monetary economics. ... -
How to get the best from your advertising agency
(2010-03-12)In this study has focused on what the client should do to get the best from his agency. -
HRD practices in Indian industry
(2010-03-13)The need for developing managerial capabilities among executives is being increasingly felt and attended to in Indian Industry in the recent past. Mechanisms like performance appraisal, potential appraisal, training, OD, ... -
HRD: old wine in a new bottle?
(2010-03-14)HRD is a new concept that has evolved in the last decade. HRD in USA is identified with training and development and it is only in the recent years other components of human resources development are being included under ... -
Hub interdiction & hub protection problems: Model formulations & exact solution methods
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-10-25)In this paper, we present computationally effcient formulations for the hub interdiction and hub protection problems, which are bi-level and tri-level mixed integer linear programs, respec- tively. In the hub interdiction ... -
Hub-based network analysis and change in the US air transport system (ATS)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The US has been a pioneer w.r.t. the modern hub-and-spoke (HS) system which found near unequivocal support among aviation scholars over the last few decades. The author takes a more critical approach with regards to the ... -
Human Development in India: A Macro Perspective
(2012-10-11)During the 1950s and 60s the concept of development ignored the social dimension. However, during the last three decades several new concepts have emerged concerning “development” at the national and the global levels. ... -
Human development: 1993 - where do we go from here?
(2010-03-29)The UNDP Human Development Report of 1993 ranks India 134 out of a total of 173 countries. This raises serious questions about India s human development policies and procedures. This paper attempts to examine India s ... -
Human resource issues and its implications for health sector reforms
(2009-09-02)Given the growing complexities and challenges the health sector faces, reforms in this sector are inevitable. Often health sector reforms aimed to address many of these deficiencies and ensuring effectiveness and efficiency ... -
Human resource issues in maternal and neonatal health in india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)One in seven women die from complications related to pregnancy or delivery in some of the African countries, compared to one in many thousands in Europe and North America. More than 95 per cent of maternal deaths occur in ... -
Human Resource Practices and Commitment of Senior Officials in Health System: Reflections from a Progressive State in a Developing Economy
(2009-07-25)It is widely recognised that the commitment and competencies of people working in the health sector has significant bearing on sector performance and its reform process. The current paper attempts to analyse the commitment ... -
ICT adoption and organizational change in public and private enterprises
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper we explore whether there are differences in IT adoption, as well associated organizational change between private and state owned enterprises. We use two datasets from India to conduct this analysis- primary ... -
Identification of best practices: a study of passenger car dealers in India
(2009-12-16)Automobile manufacturers and car dealers entering fast growing, emerging markets often face several crucial decisions. A key question in this context is: what are the characteristics of an efficient dealer? In this paper, ... -
Identification of project - a systems view
(2010-03-22)This paper aims at integrating areas of formal planning system and decision-making with project identification of an entrepreneur, a development agency or corporation. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) Analysis of ... -
Identification of Top Performing Economies
(2009-09-02)Using seven indicators of the economic performance of 187 countries, the paper identifies the top 50 performers during the decades of 1981-90 and 1991-2000. Five of these indicators are the trend rates of growth over a ... -
Identifying defective valves in a blowout preventer valve network
(2013-11-26)Blowouts are nancially damaging for drilling companies and are ecological hazards. Hence blowout prevention equipment is critical infrastructure for drilling companies. Blowout preventer valves are important components ...