Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Algorithms for evaluation and design of reliable networks
(2010)A reliable network is a network in which network elements, i.e., arcs and/or nodes, are functional only with a pre-specified probability. Such networks are used to model real-life networks such as telecommunication networks ... -
Integrated model for blood bank operations
(2010)This research provides a new approach to blood bank administrators for managing the complex blood bank inventory system. Our method primarily involves identifying and analyzing significant sub-problems in the context of ... -
Managing maternal health care services through public private partnerships: policy issues and implications " a study of the Chiranjeevi scheme in Panchmahals district of Gujarat, India"
(2010)Background: The UNDP Millennium Development Goal aims at reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. An estimated 1.2 million children are born in the state of Gujarat each year, including ... -
Inter-firm linkages and small-scale enterprises: a study of sub-contracting relationships
(2000)The diversity of inter-firm linkages, networks, alliances, and subcontracting, has thrown up fresh challenges for industrial organization literature. A number of studies attempt to analyses the factors that contribute to ... -
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 ... -
Adaptiveness in water management institutions: nature, existence and impact
(2010)The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating ... -
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 ... -
Exploring welfare maximizing SPS standards in a game-theoretic framework: a case of Indo-US trade in wheat and mango
(2010)As the trade quotas have been eliminated under GATT and tariffs have been rationalized under WTO; the focal point of disputes and negotiations in international trade has shifted to non-tariff barriers, particularly Sanitary ... -
Essays on revenue management
(2010)Revenue Management (RM) is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behavior in order to maximize expected future revenue from a perishable resource. The challenge here is to sell the right product ... -
Salesperson's customer orientation: conceptualization, scale development and impact in selling situations
(2010)The practice of marketing concept has been widely studied, and one of the important themes within this context is the salespersons orientation while interacting with customers in the selling situations. Saxe and Weitz ... -
Television advertising and consumer price sensitivity: a contingent approach
(2000)Advertising and pricing are two critical elements of a firm’s marketing strategy after the product design stage. On one hand advertising spending being a cash outflow, reduces profits while realised price on the other hand, ... -
Essays on seduelized and comparative advertising strategies: a search for the best advertising decision
(2010)Different formats of competitive advertising strategies interplay in present day markets. While some advertisements compare competing brands, some others are sequelized on earlier advertisements, either in an attempt to ... -
Perceived organisational support and organisational commitment: the mediational influence of psychological well being
(2005)Organizational commitment (OC) is perhaps one of the most researched topics in organizational behavior studied. It characterizes employee relationship with their organization and influences their decision to continue with ... -
Effects of price discrepancies, referents for comparison and prior trust in seller on buyers perceptions of price unfairness, subsequent trust and purchase intention
(2010)In purchase situations, buyers frequently make comparisons with reference transactions are used as a standard against which the observed purchase price of a product is evaluated. However prices in the market place vary and ... -
The Effect of prices and exchange rates on India's foreign trade flows: an empirical study
(2003)After independence India followed an industrial policy based on import substitution, assuming that price related measures are ineffective due to lower demand elasticities of both, exports and imports. Moreover the exports ... -
Role of operational capabilities on performance in Indian apparel retail sector
(2010)Indian apparel retail sector has shown tremendous growth rates over the last decade. Owning to tremendous growth rates and more stores getting added up, gives the customer a variety of choices in terms of store formats and ... -
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 ... -
Evolution of global carbon market: implications for India
(2010)Emissions mitigation efforts for limiting atmospheric temperature rise have lead to the evolution of a global carbon market. Future carbon price expectations will play an increasingly important role in long term investment ... -
Intraday activity patterns and market microstructure effects in Indian capital markets: an empirical investigation using high frequency data
(2010)This study analyzes the intraday activity (volatility, volume and trade frequency) patterns and market microstructure effects in the Indian capital market using a large dataset. Intraday 5-minutes volume and volatility are ... -
Strategic response of Indian state owned enterprises to environmental shifts
(2010)Researches on strategic response of firms to environmental shifts have been conducted, mostly with respect to the private corporations and, predominantly in the North American and European Context. This apparent inclination ...