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Marketing in spearhead strategic development organisations
(1993)The need for organizations that perform strategic developmental functions in society, especially the developing countries, has led to the emergence of a variety of special purpose organizations with the primary objective ... -
Marketing strategies of the state level organisation in public distribution: A study of civil supplies corporations
(1987)In recent decades, governments have organized state owned enterprises to undertake trading and distribution of important commodities and products. Despite the social and economic importance of such organizations, research ... -
Markets, home country ecosystem partners & value creation: a study of Indian pharmaceutical industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Recently scholars have started studying the locus of value creation outside the firm and how various ecosystem partners and stakeholders impact firms and markets. We expand this research agenda in the context of the ... -
A measure for service quality for hospitals: scale development and validation
(1999)Service quality is defined as the difference between perceptions and expectations on the items representing the areas of performance specific to a service. The research was undertaken in order to understand these specific ... -
Measurement of Systemic Risk and its Drivers
(2013)The recent global financial crisis has taught us a tough and important lesson- there is a pressing need for containing systemic risk in the financial system. However, prior to Containing this risk and form the necessary ... -
Media, cognition and assemblage perspectives on ICT in education: a three-part study in an early-adopter Indian school
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Digital technology is expected to change education systems, and discussions around the nature of this change have started to move beyond technocentrism or unfounded optimism, to focus on the nuances of integrating digital ... -
Metaheuristics for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem
(2013)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging a set of facilities with given lengths on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem ... -
Mitigation strategies for transitioning towards ‘Net-zero’ emissions from energy systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-23)Net-zero emissions from energy systems are essential to meet the Paris climate goals. These transitions require intensive efforts from national governments, in addition to deeper climate commitments. As a coal-dependent, ... -
Modal Shift Estimation and Financial Viability of High Speed Rail in India: The Case Study of Ahmedabad – Mumbai Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The share of rail in passenger transport in India has declined rapidly, primarily due to severe capacity constraints and inability of railways to increase the speed of travel. Other countries facing similar problems have ... -
Modeling and analysis of order fulfillment decisions in retail
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Today, retailing emphasis has shifted from transaction-orientation to consumer-orientation, where retailers are focusing to enhance the customers’ shopping experience. Retailers are redesigning their order fulfillment ... -
Modeling price behavior and convenience yield in Indian commodity futures markets
(2011)Organized commodity derivatives markets in India are relatively new. After the commencement of trading of futures on the national commodity exchanges (NCDEX, MCX, and NMCE) in 2003-2004, the trading volume and value have ... -
Modelling of a pull production system: a simulation approach
(1998)In recent years the success of Japanese management techniques has led to their increasing popularity among both practitioners and researchers. One of the techniques that has attracted much attention is the pull production ... -
Money,finance and economic development; the case of India
(1978)Contemporary macro theory has taken a peculiar stand on the role of the institution of’ money and the financial system in the economic processes of’ a market economy. Though it has paid B great deal of attention to the ... -
Multi-objective decision making: Operational features
(1981)Decision making in various contexts can be seen as a process of choice making amongst alternative opportunities of action. One such context which is fast becoming is the decision making under multiple objectives. In this ... -
A multi-objective framework for the project selection problem using goal programming
(1984)It has been pointed out in the literature that usually there are multiple objectives relevant to the problem of selecting a flow project from many project proposals. Barring some recent work in this field, the project ... -
Multi-objective two-level planning for extending banking facilities to rural areas
(1977)This dissertation develops multi-objective two level planning methodologies for the problem of extending banking facilities to rural areas. An investigation of the existing banking spread reveals that the spread had taken ... -
Multi-Period Facility Location Problem With an Uncertain Number of Servers
(2016)Facility location problems reported in the literature generally assume the problem parameter values (like cost, budget, etc.) to be known with complete certainty, even if they change over time (as in multi-period versions). ... -
Multi-project scheduling under multiple resource constraints: an experimental investigation
(1984)The term Multi-Project Scheduling under Multiple Resource Constraints, MPSMRC, refers to a situation where an organization seeks to allocate a set of common scarce resources to the competing activities of a number of ... -
Multilevel Network Measures for Organizational Learning Process
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Organizational learning has received increasing attention from scholars and practitioners alike for the past five decades. Yet the lack of agreement among scholars for an accepted theory or methodology for measuring ... -
Multistage bulk commodity distribution: development of decomposition lagrangian relaxation based algorithm
(1988)Bulk commodity distribution is an important problem in large countries. Huge expenses are incurred in warehousing and transportation. Situation is characterized by multistage location of warehouses and location and ...