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    • Essays on revenue management 

      Karmarkar, Sandeep (2010)
      Revenue Management (RM) is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behavior in order to maximize expected future revenue from a perishable resource. The challenge here is to sell the right product ...

    • Essays on seduelized and comparative advertising strategies: a search for the best advertising decision 

      Chakrabarty, Patrali (2010)
      Different formats of competitive advertising strategies interplay in present day markets. While some advertisements compare competing brands, some others are sequelized on earlier advertisements, either in an attempt to ...

    • Essays on share repurchases 

      Saurabh, Suman (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ...

    • Essays on shareholder voting 

      Purohit, Siddharth Mahendra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "Shareholder ratification of corporate actions is an important part of the corporate governance process. In this thesis, I examine the determinants of shareholder dissent in the context of three actions proposed for ...

    • Essays on strategic interactions in vertical supply chains: on the role of inventory and technology 

      Balasubramanian, Ganesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "The past two decades have witnessed a shift from centrally managed supply chains to decentralized supply chains (Netessine, 2004). In decentralized supply chains, interests of individual members may not be aligned with ...

    • Essays on the elements of consumer journeys in retailing 

      Akella, Laxminarayana Yashaswy (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "In two essays, I examine how elements in online and offline consumer journeys can be used to study consumer behaviour. In the first essay, I bring in the network theory perspective as an element to study online consumer ...

    • Essays on the Newsboy Problem 

      Khanra, Avijit (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The newsboy problem is about minimizing the penalty associated with demand-supply mismatch of an item with uncertain demand by suitably deciding the stocking quantity. Newsboy problem arises in a variety of situations ...

    • Essays on the role of information in financial markets 

      Srivastava, Pranjal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "This Ph.D. dissertation comprises three essays on the role of information in financial markets. The first essay examines the impact of the introduction of a minimum buyback mandate in open market repurchases. In line with ...

    • Evaluating G2C e-government projects in India: indicators and measurement 

      Ray, Subhajyoti (2008)
      The phenomenon of e-Government, understood broadly as the use of information and communication technology by government agencies for delivering services to citizens (G2C), businesses (G2B) and other government agencies ...

    • Evolution of global carbon market: implications for India 

      Chaturvedi, Vaibhav (2010)
      Emissions mitigation efforts for limiting atmospheric temperature rise have lead to the evolution of a global carbon market. Future carbon price expectations will play an increasingly important role in long term investment ...

    • Evolution of management systems in two Indian business groups 

      Pendse, Ujjwala (1983)
      The Focus of this research is to understand the development, growth and management of two Indian business groups. The research has been conducted as an exploratory Field study to obtain insights into the Following: 1) ...

    • Evolution of new freight structure in India over the long run: A policy assessment 

      Bhasker, Siddhartha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      India’s per capita CO2 emissions increased from 0.8 to 1.7 metric tonnes from 1990 to 2010; however it was well below the world average of 4.9 metric tonnes in 2010. The major contributor to the emissions are the electricity ...

    • Exact methods for solving linear and nonlinear max-min problems 

      Nigudkar, Suyog (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)
      This thesis focuses on developing exact solution methods for mixed-integer linear and nonlinear maxmin problems. The first essay proposes a tri-level min-max-min optimization problem (pM-FLPI) to design a resilient food ...

    • Exact solution methods for non-convex optimization problems 

      Das, Arka (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "The thesis focuses on the development of efficient algorithms for solving the non-convex problems arising in different application areas involving operations and supply chains. In the first essay, we propose an exact ...

    • An examination of initial and aftermarket returns of initial public offerings of equity shares 

      Majmudar, Utkarsh (1997)
      Initial public offerings (IPOs) are ordinary equity shares issued by companies that have not previously issued equity shares to the public: Existing literature in finance suggests that the issue price is generally lower ...

    • Examining effects of women’s participation in non-farm work 

      Disha, Bose (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)
      Literature is replete with studies on impacts of participation in non-farm work in the rural context and how it contributes to attenuation of rural poverty. The differential impacts of women’s participation in non-farm ...

    • Examining entrepreneurial orientation from the lens of CEO characteristics 

      Banerjee, Saikat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)
      The dissertation empirically examines the effects of the characteristics of Chief Executive Officers (CEO) on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of firms with the help of three essays. EO is the strategic posture of firms ...

    • Examining the impact of discretionary human resource practices on workplace loneliness implication during home-based telework 

      Maheshwari, Sudhanshu (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "The advancement of information and communication technologies has revolutionized work– life balance in the 21st century by migrating work from traditional office spaces to remote locations. For many, employees, this ...

    • An experimental investigation of advertising effectiveness in roadblock advertising 

      Parida, Biswajita (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Recent years have seen growing use of ‗Roadblock Advertising‘ by media planners to enhance advertising effectiveness. Many companies (Hutch, Aircel, ITC, Viacom 18, Nestle, Nokia, Volkswagon, Real fire extinguisher, Vodafone, ...

    • An Exploration of Correlates of Performance Appraisal Politics from Appraisee Perspective: A Study of Indian Family Run Organizations 

      Dhiman, Amit (2008)
      Performance appraisal (PA) research and practice suggest that political character of employee appraisal is one of the main concerns of the employees and the top managements. Research literature also acknowledges the need ...