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Corporate Governance: Financial Regulators and Courts Need To Be On the Same Page
(2013-11-25)
Real corporate governance requires tough financial regulators which effectively work to
safeguard investors’ interests in securities and endeavour to create a proper environment
for the securities market to develop. The ...
A Memory-Aided Broadcast Mechanism for Enabling a Rural Community Radio on an Ad-Hoc Peer-To-Peer Mobile Network
(2013-11-25)
This paper investigates deploying a village level community-radio application on top of a MANET
comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system, where any user in the network
is equally empowered to ...
On the Blowout Preventer Testing Problem: An approach to checking for leakage in BOP networks
(2013-11-20)
Blowout Preventers (BOPs) and choke manifolds are key pieces of drilling rig equipment
o prevent the uncontrolled release of potentially hazardous formation
uids to surface. The
blowout prevention testing problem is ...
Development of a Causal Framework Linking High Performance HRM Practices, Positive Psychological Capital, Creative Behaviors and Performance
(2013-11-25)
Synthesizing the ideas of high-performance Human Resource Management (HRM),
positive psychological capital, and componential theory of creativity, the present study
develops a multi-level causal framework linking ...
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 ...
Tabu search for the single row facility layout problem using exhaustive 2-opt and insertion neighborhoods
(2013-11-20)
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with
given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs
of facilities. The problem is ...
Quotas under RTE: Leading towards an egalitarian education system?
(2013-11-26)
Quotas for weaker sections in private schools have been one of the most controversial and
contested instruments introduced as part of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education (RTE) Act, 2009. In this paper, ...
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 ...
Market-Driving Behaviors: A Framework for Developing Theory and Practice
(2013-11-26)
Whereas marketing scholars have explored firms’ market-driven behaviors, relatively limited
attention has focused on firms’ market-driving behaviors. Early writings on the subject suggest
that market-driving behaviors ...
A Lin-Kernighan heurisitic for single row facility layout
(2013-11-25)
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with
given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs
of facilities. The problem is known ...