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The competitiveness conundrum: Literature review and reflections
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-01-01)
The concept of competitiveness has been studied by researchers from a variety of perspectives using different methodologies. Though there is a large volume of literature on the subject, there seems to be a dearth of ...
Mechanical properties of wood carton used for long distance transport of tomatoes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
Tomatoes are produced and consumed year round. Wood carton is the dominant mode of packaging for produce coming to APMC Market, Ahmedabad from out-of-state. It has been known for long however that wood carton suffers from ...
One and two facility network design revisited
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)
The one facility one commodity network design problem OFOC with flow costs considers the problem of sending d units of flow from a source to a destination where capacity is purchased in batches of C units. The two commodity ...
Role stress and job satisfaction amongst doctors
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
The present study was undertaken with the intention of examining the nature of role stress and job satisfaction among doctors, and to explore the relationship between these variables. A group of 35 junior doctors working ...
Macroeconomic analysis of the union budget 1998-99
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-09-01)
Union Budget 1998-99 was the maiden budget of the newly elected coalition government led by the BJP. There were apprehensions about the economic philosophy of the new government indicating the possibility of a reversal of ...
Privatisation: theory practices and issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-03-01)
The paper discusses the various forms of privatisation, its rationale, practices in India and abroad, and the issues facing the privatisation programme. It concludes that while privatisation programme is not easy to design ...
Path independence and choice acyclicity property
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-08-01)
In this paper we study lower and upper approximations of choice functions and propose a necessary and sufficient condition for a choice function to have a path independent lower approximation. In an appendix to this paper ...
Monotonic solutions to productions planning problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1992-12-01)
A common problem in production planning for a public firm producing n distinct commodities in the same plant and facing a cost constraint, is the choice of the levels of output of the various commodities. This is a classical ...
Need and challenges of management education in primary health care system in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
Primary Health Care System in India is very large and covers almost all the parts of the country. It has more than 20,000 PHCs and 140,000 Sub-centres spread in more than 400 districts. This system consumes large amount ...
Brand specific associations and consumer involvement in the evaluation of brand extensions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-12-01)
Research in the area of brand extensions has focused on the themes of simple affect transfer and category based affect transfer to explain attitude towards the extension. Subsequent research stresses the importance of ...