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A 2020 vision of India’s farm market reforms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-01-02)Concern for farmers and market facilitation by the state is as old as Indian civilization. In the post-Independence era, this concern was addressed by provision of market-yards for the farmers through APMC Acts of the state ... -
Abstract games admitting stable solutions
(2010-01-16)An abiding problem in choice theory has been one of characterizing those choice functions which are obtained as a result of some kind of optimization. Specifically, the endeavour has concentrated largely on finding a binary ... -
Academic research productivity: what may be “reining” in the Indian B-school?
(2013-11-26)The article points at some historic reasons for poor productivity in research, including unproductive competition among institutions due to a false sense of self sufficiency, lack of adequate research infrastructure at ... -
Academics and rural development: lessons from the Dharampur project
(2010-04-17)There is a growing demand on the educational institutions to contribute to the development process, particularly in the rural areas. The academicians have responded to this demand in a favorable manner. In the IIMA a faculty ... -
Access to higher education in India: an exploration of its antecedents
(2013-11-26)Deficits in participation of marginalized groups in Higher Education (HE) have attracted significant policy and research attention. Recent studies have explored the role of socioreligious affiliation and other factors ... -
Accident rates and safety practices in road transport corporations
(2010-07-20)This paper attempts to understand and explain the variation in accident rates among various Road Transport Corporations in India. It is based on data concerning accident rates and safety practices, collected from five Road ... -
Accountancy systems in State Electricity Boards - developments & requirements
(2010-03-15)With the increasing importance given to the power development programmes in the successive Five Year Plans, proper and effective financial management of the State Electricity Boards (SEBs) have progressively become ... -
Accounting for changing prices - Recent development
(2010-03-25)With the rejection of ED-18 on July 6, 1977, the longest running epic of the financial world "Inflation Accounting" has come to a standstill where U.K. accounting profession is living with "An Interim Recommendation" and ... -
Accounting for inflation - an empirical study
(2010-07-27)In recent years, there has been increasing criticism of financial statements prepared under the long-established cost conventions. The accounting profession all over the world has been debating various approaches to ... -
Accounting policy choices: some empirical evidence
(2010-03-15)There is substantial differences in the objectives and basis for internal, external and tax reporting. This study looks into how far companies use different accounting policies for different uses. Also an attempt is made ... -
Achieve zero customer dissatisfaction for corporate immortality
(2009-12-14)The paper goes beyond the term of marketing and other specific functions, and identifies ZCD approach as the route to ensure corporate immortality. The paper draws on experiences of a number of companies to support the arguments. -
Action research for micro level planning: a self appraisal
(2010-03-13)This paper summarizes experience of an action-research project on district Project Planning in six drought prone regions in which both the authors were involved for 3 years (1977-78 - 1980-81). Major thrust of this effort ... -
Action research on rural development for rural poor: the Dharampur and Jawaja Projects
(2010-03-18)The paper presents the experiences of two action projects of rural development undertaken by IIMA. It reviews the experiences and learning elements in order to generate alternative strategies and policies based upon ... -
Action tendency measure of job satisfaction: a cross cultural validation
(2010-07-27)Job satisfaction has been of interest to organizational researchers for a long time. However, success in measuring it has been limited. There have been suggestions that its assessment through "action tendencies' may be ... -
Adjusting education policy: opportunity for institutional reform
(2010-04-17)Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in ... -
Adjustment and need patterns of neurotics and normals
(2010-03-14)The present paper reports the findings of dominating areas of maladjustments and prominence of needs in neurotics compared to normals. The Vyaktitva Parakh Prashnavali for the measurement of adjustment and AAPAS Motive ... -
Adjustment to risk in farming an assessment of drought-prone farmers strategies in Karnataka India
(2010-07-27)Weather-induced instability in farming in the predominant rainfed lands is fairly well recongised. Faced with the problems of frequent droughts and the resultant risk in farming, farmers strategies to cope with the situations ...