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Solar And Bioenergy Scenarios For India: Modelling And Policy Assessment.
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
Renewable energy resources and technologies are among the prime options to mitigate externalities from energy supply-chain. Typically energy externalities appear in different forms and vary across spatial and temporal ...
Sustainable Low Carbon Urban Mobility: An Assessment of Future Scenarios and Policies for India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015)
Under business-as-usual development, emissions from the transportation system that delivers mobility, given its high fossil-fuel dependence, are expected to exacerbate local air pollution across India's cities and add to ...
Why are “free” policy benefits left on the table?: Examining the role & cost-effectiveness of informational assistance strategies on policy take-up in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
‘Non-take-up’ of welfare benefits has emerged as a recurring empirical phenomenon across social welfare schemes around the world. People from disadvantaged backgrounds are often seen not utilizing ‘free’ benefits they are ...
A process evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) enrolment process: Lens of accountability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Increased accountability (through increased efficiency, cost reduction and expertise of private actors) has been used as one of the primary justifications for encouraging private sector participation in the public health ...
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. ...
Essays on Corporate Social Performance (CSP) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A global to firm level analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
In recent years, there is a growing interest about corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in both academic literature and business world. Here, the underlying rationale is that since business forms a part of society, ...
Explorations in modeling and forecast assessment of energy derivatives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Amid economic and geopolitical uncertainty, energy commodities have gone through abrupt shifts in supply and demand dynamics during the last decade. This has caused unprecedented price volatility. To manage excessive price ...
Essays on online hyperlocal food service marketplaces
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Owing to the e-commerce revolution, food service business is shifting from being the traditional brick-and-mortar dine-in restaurant to being an online food ordering business. Although the online food service delivery ...
An experimental investigation of advertising effectiveness in roadblock advertising
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Recent years have seen growing use of ‗Roadblock Advertising‘ by media planners to enhance advertising effectiveness. Many companies (Hutch, Aircel, ITC, Viacom 18, Nestle, Nokia, Volkswagon, Real fire extinguisher, Vodafone, ...
Factors related to empowerment of women employees in a streotypical job
(2010)
1990s as has been noted as "empowerment era" by some writers {e.g., Hardy, & Lieba O'Sullivan, 1998; Waif, Wood, & Leach, 2004). Empowerment plays a significant role in realizing human potential (Spreitzer, 1992). Right ...