Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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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 ... -
Multitype branching process: extensions, inferences and applications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)The idea of a simple branching process is that a parent produces offsprings. They then further take the role of parents and produce o springs, and the processes continue either until infinity or until extinction. We relax ... -
Natural gas market in India: evolution and future scenarios
(2008)This study examined the evolution of gas markets in India and demand for gas in future. A review of literature showed that gas market growth was impacted by economic reforms, geopolitics, globalization and environmental ... -
New Exact Methods for Scheduling Multi Mode Multiple Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problems
(2012)Project scheduling problem (PSP) has enticed researchers since over a century. Enhancement in computational power enables the search for solutions to more complex problems progressively. However, the search for optimal ... -
New product introduction processes in Indian consumer goods industry
(1984)New products are often referred to as the ‘Life Blood ‘of a business enterprise. In the Indian operating environment of the firm, conditions like increasing competition, changing consumer needs and values, a more knowledgeable ... -
New services evolution processes
(1991)Services sector is emerging as a significant sector the world over. In the year 1980, share of services in the total GDP of Developed Economies was 57 per cent, and between 34 to 40 per cent in different sub-groups of ... -
Non-euclidean analytics: inference, learning and applications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Several classical statistical approaches assume that the data lives in a Euclidean space. However, such methods do not apply to non-Euclidean data. In this dissertation, we develop methods and theory to analyse certain ... -
Novel cognitive consequences of product anthropomorphism on consumer judgment and decision making
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Consumers frequently come across anthropomorphic products, i.e., products imbued with human-like features. Marketers may anthropomorphize products by designing them to visually resemble human physical features (e.g., a ... -
Numeracy, financial literacy, risk attitudes, and impatience of forest dependent communities: evidence from Andhra Pradesh
(Indian institute of management Ahmedabad, 2014)This thesis studies numeracy, financial literacy, risk attitudes, and time discount rates (impatience) of the people in the bottom of the pyramid. These issues are addressed in the context of forest dependent communities ... -
Occupational withdrawal: a study of Indian MNOs in the International Shipping Industry
(1998)Occupation in a popular sense connotes the kind of work performed by an individual for livelihood. Change in the kind of work performed declares occupational withdrawal from the individual's perspective and occupational ...