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Capability building leading to commercialization: a study of product based Indian telecom start-ups
(2011)New ventures, especially in high-tech domain {defined by OECD as sectors with high R&D intensity, such as aerospace, biotech, etc.), have received wide recognition for their important contributions to the economy. Prior ... -
Challenges in the introduction of new technologies: a study of the performance and adoption of hybrid rice in India
(2014)Rice is the most important food staple of India and increasing its production in the context of rising food demand and escalating food prices is a major challenge in India. Breakthroughs are urgently required. A major ... -
Challenges of saving water: the adoption and impact of micro-irrigation technology in agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-06)The large-scale use of traditional irrigation methods has pushed agriculture towards extensive and unsustainable water use. The thesis focuses on the adoption and impact of Micro-Irrigation (MI) technology, considered an ... -
Change in leadership behaviour through online professional development programme: contextualising community based identity cohesion and intentionality
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)School principals play a crucial leadership role by managing four components of their schools’ organizational capacity: teachers’ skills, professional community, technical resources, and program coherence. Though important ... -
Change point, prediction and classification with functional data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Functional data consists of a collection of curves (or functions) defined on a finite subset of some interval. In this dissertation, we discuss change point, prediction and classification problems with functional data. ... -
Choice determinants and comparative evaluation of agri-output marketing channels – A farmers’ perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Agricultural marketing, regulated by the state APMC Acts of 1960s for over four decades, was found wanting in expanding services, securing better returns to farmers, and ensuring low prices of farm commodities to consumers. ... -
Choice of technique in the sugar industry: an interactive multi-objective model
(1985)The Choice of Technique (C.O.T) problem has always been treated in the literature as a problem of ranking the alternative techniques available on a single criterion, viz., net objectives, if included, have been clubbed ... -
Client-orientation in new product development: a case of biotechnological agri-input
(1995)Evaluation of agricultural technology development and review of commercial product development revealed that only a small percentage of the new products have succeeded in the market. For instance, the numbers of varieties ... -
Climate change, air pollution and public health in India: impact assessment and adaptation strategies
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Climate change has brought into sharp focus two key environmental health concerns for Indian cities - outdoor air pollution and climate change related temperature extremes. This research explores exposure-response relationships ... -
Coking coal allocation to steel plants: modeling and policy analysis
(1989)Supply of required quantity of coking coal having specified quality has been a major problem for integrating steel plants. Performance of our steel sector has been severely affected by the quality of coking coal which it ... -
Collaborations in supply chain - value of information sharing
(2004)Collaboration between members of the supply chain is advocated for improving efficiency and reducing the cost of delivering the products. Mechanisms to coordinate decisions and share information between members of the ... -
Collaborative learning in virtual space and learning in the physical workplace: the case of in-service public-school teachers in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The existing approach to in-service teachers’ professional development in the Indian public-school education system has often been criticized on grounds of ineffectiveness. In recent years, peer-driven, technology-mediated ... -
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 ...