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Collective action among communities for early adoption of top-down adaptation policies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This thesis, through two essays, examines how policy interventions for climate adaptation can foster collective action for vulnerable communities as well as the configuration of conditions at the community level that ... -
Commodities spot and future markets in India: efficiency, integration, returns and risk
(2009)The commodity futures markets in India are one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. The aim of this research is to help develop a better understanding of these markets, as also their relationship with global ... -
Communication for development programmes: an information integration analytic study of communicator effectiveness
(1991)Development programmes are instruments of public-policy and are created specifically to translate policy objectives to actual outcomes. The incidence of imperfect correspondence between the two is referred to as "implementation ... -
Community Influences On Strategy-As-Practice In Family Businesses
(2016)The strategy-as-practice perspective concerns ways of doing that fall into specific routines and works patterns, which may vary from firm to firm in an industry, and between different types of firms, while at the same time ... -
A comparative study of general management functions in private sector, public sector and multinational subsidiary companies in India
(1980)Discussion on public sector vs. private sector has been quite common and frequent, ever since the emphasis on public sector increased in the industrial activity of the country. However, very little management literature ... -
Competitive hub location problem
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ... -
Consumer evaluation and choice of product bundles: an empirical study on the effects of price and non-price incentives and the moderating influence of consumers' goal orientation
(2010)Price bundling, the practice of selling two or more separate products in a single package at a price discount, is a tool for cross selling a given product A to customers who only buy product B and vice versa. Cross selling ... -
Consumer evaluation of brand extensions: the process, and moderating role of involvement
(1998)Brand extension is the strategy of using a well-established brand name to enter a different product category. Consumers1 evaluation of a brand extension is primarily suggested to be a function of brand affect (attitude ... -
A Consumer study of law induced behaviour and attitude change: the case of safety helmets
(1983)In the past decade, marketing has increasingly entered beyond the regime of traditional business studies. Using the concepts drawn from the field of consumer behaviour and other behavioural sciences, marketing has the ... -
Contradictions between identity and image of an organization: Exploring responses in new entrepreneurial ventures
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Organizational identity, defined as members’ constructions about who we are as an organization (Gioia & Patvardhan, 2012), is considered as the core of organizational cognition and action. However, the understanding of ... -
Control limit models for cash management in bank branches
(1987)Development of policies for maintaining adequate cash balance in bank branches and transferring of excess cash from surplus branches to Central Office or deficit branches, are, indeed, major tasks faced by commercial banks ... -
Control systems in non-profit sevice organizations; the case of the state-owned hospital
(1990)Complexity of organizations from the point of view of designing control systems, increased as we move from manufacturing to service organizations, and from for-profit to nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit organizations ... -
Coordination in sharing economy: a study of ride-hailing platforms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Recent years have witnessed an emergence of sharing economy, defined as an economic system in which assets or services are shared between private individuals. Ride-hailing has emerged as a key area of sharing based business ... -
Corporate dividend behaviour with special emphasis on growth and controlled companies
(1976)The study examines the divided policies and practices of 158 manufacturing non-government public limited companies for the period 1961-72 and covers about 19% of the total corporate sector. It attempts to answer whether ... -
Corporate responses to the ecological environment: a process study of firms in the Indian chemical industry
(1997)Environmental legislation in India has become increasingly stringent since the mid-eighties. Recent legislation provides for strict liability (i.e. fault is not required to be proved) in the event of environmental mishaps. ... -
Debt tolerance: a model and its application to Indian states
(2006)A number of studies on the fiscal situation in India have noticed the deterioration in finances of the state’s governments in India. The deterioration has translated itself into burgeoning debts, the sustainability of debts ... -
Decentralised development planning towards an operational framework
(1979)This dissertation critically examines the existing system of development planning in India for its suitability as a multilevel mode of planning. After discussing the related issues, it proceeds to give a framework for ... -
Deciphering the choice overload phenomenon – Exploring the role of consideration sets and anticipated regret
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Studies on choice proliferation and its negative effects, popularly referred to as ‘Choice Overload (CO)’, have built on insights from the seminal ‘Jam Study’ (Iyengar & Lepper, 2000), which highlighted the paradoxical ... -
Decision models for e-hailing texi platforms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Uber, Ola, Didi, and Lyft are examples of successful e-hailing taxi platforms. In this thesis, we aim to develop decision models for such platforms. In the rst essay, for an e-hailing taxi operation, we analyze the driver's ... -
Decision models for single-period and lateral stock-transfer inventory policies in disribution systems
(2004)Firms are facing intense competition in today’s global business environment. They have to produce quality products at competitive prices with unpredictable demand. To be competitive, a firm has to quickly respond to demand ...