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Life cycle costs and energy market equilibrium: a policy assessment for India
(2009)
Energy production and consumption cause unintended impacts. Their exclusion by the market leads to sub-optimal resource allocations. Conventionally, market correction is proposed through Pigouviantaxes or Coasianbar gaining ...
A study of career mobility decisions of dual career couples
(2009)
Presently, women in India comprise approximately thirty one present of the total workforce including rural and urban sectors (Budhwar, Saini & Bhatnagar, 2005). This statistics indicates a major social change in the country ...
A Simulation and Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization of Closed – Loop Multi – Echelon Inventory System
(2009)
The objective of this research is to develop a Genetic Algorithm (GA) - based optimization approach for a multi - echelon closed - loop inventory system of items which are repairable in nature. In the context of the passenger ...
Managing climate change risks in cities: a study of mitigation and adaptation strategies
(2009)
Climate change is an extreme case of externality. Its global nature has prompted analysis at higher geographical scales like country, region or global levels. However the origin of most emissions and impacts of climate ...
Formation process of public private partnership in transport infrastructure in India
(2009)
The dissertation suggests that an attempt to create strong relational arrangements along with the contractual arrangements would lead to higher rate of success in PPP. Relational arrangements have become a major determinant ...
A study of alienation among knowledge workers
(2009)
Alienation as a concept has been discussed for a long time. The term came into prominence in the early writings of Marx (1844/1932), and since then the concept of alienation finds reference across a broad range of subjects ...
The Effect of Organizational Identification on Emotional Labor: A Study in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(2009)
Organizations depend on customers for their survival and growth. With increased
importance of customers, organizational focus has expanded from the traditional economic rationale associated with the product (service) to ...
Efficient tabu search implementations for asymmetric traveling salesman problems
(2009)
Combinatorial optimization problems are widely used to model various
managerial problems including scheduling, location, routing etc. Many of
these problems are known to be NP-hard. Therefore, heuristics and metaheuristics ...
Building capabilities for global service delivery: a study in the Indian software service sector
(2009)
Firm Capabilities have attracted research attention for several years. Capabilities have been seen from resource-based (Barney, 1991) and process-based (Helfat et al,2007) views. We take the latter and define capabilities ...
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 ...