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Structural design for greenhouse at Bhujodi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
This write up contains design computations for selection of structural members for a greenhouse to be installed at Bhujodi. Straight wall gable roof form was selected. Wind load estimates made for wind angle 0 degree and ...
Issues in accounting standards setting processes in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
The paper critically examines the accounting standards setting process in India and compares the Indian process with the processes prevailing elsewhere in the world. The paper concludes that the Indian standards setting ...
Drought, deprivation and sustainable development: Why are the public policies so weak?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)
National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the' absence of death' as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not ...
Intellectual property rights, farmer's rights and plant genetic conservation: An overview
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
The Indian Patents Act of 1970 excludes all living organisms from the scope of patent ability. However, under the Trade Related Intellectual Properties (TRIPs) negotiated under GATT the government is bound to provide some ...
Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: A test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
This study is concerned with analyzing stock returns around periods of earnings announcements. Three hundred and sixty-four earnings announcement dates (events) were obtained from the annual earnings announcements of 91 ...
In praise of caste: A tribute to manu the law giver an enquiry into the philosophy of work and stratification Part II
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-04-01)
The Part I of this paper (W.P. 928) analyses the question: 'How is one work different from the other?' and proposes seven basic and thirteen other supplementary/corollary propositions. According to these, each work has ...
Primary health care under the panchayati raj: Perceptions of officials from Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution has raised hoped for improving many services in rural areas by handling them over to Panchayat. Gujarat was one of the first states to implement the Panchayati Raj system ...
Corporate takeovers in Malaysia: Discriminant analysis for bidder and target firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
The paper looks into 144 non-financial firms in Malaysia for period 1980-1993, which includes bidders, targets, control bidders and control targets. A set of five economic/financial variables has been identified to ...
Coarse cereals in Indian Agriculture: A review of performance and prospects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-01-01)
Emerging imbalances in Indian agriculture in Indian agriculture reflected in the differences in production performance of different crops are now well recognised. One of the causes of these uneven agricultural situations ...
Fujitsu Ltd. : A case of global management in telecomputers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-06-01)
It is now almost axiomatic that the essence of corporate success lies in a felicitous combination of constancy of purpose and well coordinated operations. However, for global companies functioning in highly strategic ...