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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 ...
Time resolution of the St. Petersburg paradox: a rebuttal
(2013-11-26)
eters (2011) claims to provide a resolution of the three century old St Petersburg paradox by using
time averages and thereby avoiding the use of utility theory completely. Peters also claims to have found
an error in ...
Attitudes towards risk of forest dependent communities evidence from Andhra Pradesh
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the Indian state of ...
Market timing ability of Indian firms in open market repurchases
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
The paper examines the market timing ability of Indian firms engaged in open market repur-
chases. The study is primarily motivated by the unique disclosure feature of repurchases in
India, where the disclosures are far ...
Leadership and creativity in the Indian R&D laboratories: examining the role of autonomous motivation, psychological capital and justice perceptions
(2013-11-26)
The present study investigates the association between R&D-specific leadership approach developed in the Indian context using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data analyses, employee autonomous motivation, ...
"Impatience" of forest dependent communities evidence from Andhra Pradesh
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on the time discount rate or “impatience” of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the ...
Modeling situational factors in variety seeking behaviour: an extension of the lightning bolt model
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
Variety seeking behavior and its corollary, purchase reinforcement have been looked at from diverse viewpoints in marketing literature. One specific viewpoint has involved looking at the effects of variety seeking behavior ...
A framework for socially meaningful evaluations of technology based social innovations
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-11-07)
The social innovation space that tries to marry the pursuit of profits and social impact is at interesting cross-roads in developing countries like India. Among other things, the euphoria and subsequent deflation around ...
A constrained nash bargaining approach to the stock rationing problem in multi-echelon supply chains.
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-03)
In order to survive in the global volatile market place, supply chain analysts are brainstorming to arrive
at robust inventory control policies that prevents inventory worth of millions of dollars to get tied up in the ...
An expanded database structure for a class of multiperiod, stochastic mathematical programming models for process industries
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-05)
We introduce a multiple scenario, multiple period, optimization-based decision support system (DSS) for strategic planning in a process industry. The DSS is based on a two stage stochastic linear program (SLP) with recourse ...