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Shukranitisara: a political economy text at the cusp of Indian kingdoms and colonial rule (Revised as on 15/03/3021)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-08-02)Shukracharya’s treatise on political economy has been referred to in many ancient Indian texts such as Arthashastra, Buddhacharitam and Mahabharata. However, that treatise has been lost. A text titled Shukranitisara was ... -
Social enterprises and the pursuit of mission: form matters
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-03)Mission drift serves as an important parameter of success not only on its own right (Epstein and McFarlan 2011), but also because it shines light on the fundamental dilemma that social enterprises face between the pursuit ... -
Fractional differencing: (in)stability of spectral structure and risk measures of financial networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-01)Computation of spectral structure and risk measures from networks of multivariate financial time series data has been at the forefront of the statistical finance literature for a long time. A standard mode of analysis is ... -
‘Too central to fail’ firms in bi-layered financial networks: evidence of linkages from the US corporate bond and stock markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-06-02)Complex mutual dependencies of asset returns are recognized to contribute to systemic risk. A growing literature emphasizes that identification of vulnerable firms is a fundamental requirement for mitigating systemic risk ... -
Compensation for environmental damage: progressively casting a wider net, but what’s the catch?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-06-01)The 2018 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in which it for the first time addressed compensation for environmental damage in the case Certain Activities Carried Out by Nicaragua in the Border Area ... -
A comparable series of tax revenue foregone
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-03)The estimate of tax revenue foregone by the government crashed in 2015-16 after steadily rising over the previous decade. This was, however, on account of substantive methodological revisions rendering the estimates ... -
Corporate governance issues in executive compensation: the Indian experience
(2013-09)While the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement had the larger agenda of protesting against the influence of corporations in policy making and governance, one of its focal points was the growing disparity in the distribution ... -
Negotiating out of holdouts in land aggregation in India: small town lawyers, contingent contracts, social norms, and auctions
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-10)This a paper about the role of lawyers in small towns in India as the intermediary agents of large corporations. They help resolve disputes among farmers with small land holdings and also negotiate with them to purchase ... -
Estimation of bid-ask spread and its components in Indian stock market using trade prices
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-11)In the absence of order-book data and limited information on quoted bid-ask spreads in the Indian stock market, this paper attempts to analyze the bid-ask spread in Indian market by estimating bid-ask spreads and its ... -
Governance and upgrading in export grape global production networks in India
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013)Global production networks (GPNs) are the norm in many export sectors of developing world economies like India. High-value crops, including horticultural crops and produce, are seen as candidates for exploiting global ... -
Medical negligence and compensation inn India: how much is just and effective?
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-27)There is no denying the fact that human life is precious and in cases of medical negligence, the judges find it extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation as the quantum is highly subjective in nature, ... -
Refocusing worker participation: the struggles with construct validity
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Individual factors and organizational initiatives enabling the success of PWD-managers
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-19)In this paper we look into the factors that support the career advancement of People with Disability (PWD) and trigger the breaking of the glass ceiling. We explore the Social Cognitive Career Theory and examine the ... -
Strategizing in Indian informal business settings: a case study of kirana shops in India.
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-04)Small, informally organized retail grocery shops called kirana shops are ubiquitous in contemporary India and have historically existed as a dominant form of organizing in the Indian retail context. Despite increased ... -
A dynamic pricing approach on electricity prices in Indian context
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-12-07)In this paper, we study the mechanism of dynamic pricing of electricity and its opportunities in the Indian context. We compare the economic efficiency of dynamic pricing vis-à-vis the traditional flat tariff of electricity. ... -
Blinded tests n 2 x 2 cross-over trial
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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 ... -
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 ...