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wp02058: Role of Trade and Macroeconomic Policies in the Performance of Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

Sebastian Morris

wp02057: Impact of Initial-Trust Image on Shopper Trust and Patronage Intentions

Subhashini Kaul, Arvind Sahay and Abraham Koshy

wp02056: Harvesting dew to supplement drinking water supply in arid coastal villages of Gujarat

Girja Sharan

wp02055: Implications of Human Resource Practices and Other Structural Factors on Commitment of Public Medical Professionals in India

Sunil Kumar Maheshwari, Ramesh Bhat and Dhiman Amit

wp02054: Why don’t Small and Medium Enterprises Innovate More: Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment at Individual, Firm and Regional Level

Anil K. Gupta

wp02053: Comprehensive Analysis of Exclusive Brand Store Customer in Indian Market

Kureshi Sonal, Sood Vandana and Abraham Koshy

wp02052: India’s Agrarian Crisis and Smallholder Producers’ Participation in New Farm Supply Chain Initiatives: A Case Study of Contract Farming

Vijay Paul Sharma

wp02051: Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Alternative Perspective

Anand Jaiswal

wp02050: Chikungunya Epidemic Mortality in India: Lessons from 17th Century Bills of Mortality Still Relevant

Dileep Mavalankar, Shastri Priya and K. V. Ramani

wp02049: Loyalty Programme Applications in Indian Service Industry

Sahoo Debajani and Vyas Preeta H

wp02048: Establishing National Innovation Foundation: How Does a Tail Wag the Dog?

Anil K. Gupta

wp02047: Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology

Anil K. Gupta

wp02046: Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration

Anil K. Gupta

wp02045: Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations based Enterprises

Anil K. Gupta

wp02044: GLOBAL GIAN: Online and Off line Incubation of Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge: Towards Tianjin Declaration

Anil K. Gupta

wp02043: Ethical Issues in Accessing Peoples Knowledge and Innovations: Need for Revisiting Research Protocols with Specific Reference to Low Cost Health Technologies

Anil K. Gupta

wp02042: Agricultural Education for Entrepreneurship, Excellence and Environmental Sustainability: Agenda for Innovation and Change

Anil K. Gupta

wp02041: Marketing Strategies for Freight Traffic on Indian Railways - A Systems Perspective

G. Raghuram and Gangwar Rachna

wp02040: Tea Industry of India: The Cup that Cheers has Tears

Asopa V N

wp02039: Indian Organised Apparel Retail Sector and DSS (Decision Support Systems)

Vyas Preeta H and Sharma Ankush

wp02038: Emerging Markets for GM Foods: An Indian Perspective on Consumer Understanding and Willingness to Pay

Satish Y. Deodhar, Ganesh Sankar and Chern Wen S

wp02037: Strengthening Midwifery Services in India based on lessons learnt from Sweden and Sri Lanka

Dileep Mavalankar, Vora Kranti and Sharma Bharati

wp02036: Is Past Performance a Good Predictor of Future Potential?

T. V. Rao, Juneja Mohit and Chawla Nandini

wp02035: Global Leadership and Managerial Competencies of Indian Managers

T. V. Rao and Chawla Nandini

wp02034: DSS (Decision Support Systems) in Indian Organised Retail Sector

Preeta Vyas and Sharma Ankush

wp02033: Man and Woman Talk: Grammatical and Syntactical Similarities and Disparities

Asha Kaul and Nandan Debmalya

wp02032: Chikungunya Fever: A Killer Epidemic in Ahmedabad City, India

Dileep Mavalankar, Shastri Priya, Parmar Jeram and K. V. Ramani

wp02031: Productivity of Rural Credit: A Review of Issues and Some Recent Literature

Mankal Sriram

wp02030: Bringing about Changes at a Large Engineering College: Lessons for Designers and Implementers of Large Scale Change Efforts

Neharika Vohra and Nisha Nair

wp02029: The Case of OD in an NGO in India

Nisha Nair and Neharika Vohra

wp02028: Inference on Categorical Survey Response: A Predictive Approach

Adhya Sumanta, Tathagata Banerjee and G. Chattopadhyay

wp02027: Party Autonomy in International Commercial Arbitration

Anurag K. Agarwal

wp02026: Database Structure for a Class of Multi-Period Mathematical Programming Models (Revised-May 07)

Goutam Dutta and Robert Fourer

wp02025: Towards Reform of Land Acquisition Framework in India

Sebastian Morris and Ajay Pandey

wp02024: ‘Turnaround’ of Indian Railways: Increasing the Axle Loading

G. Raghuram and Shukla Niraja

wp02023: Public-Private Partnership, Contracting Arrangements and Managerial Capacity to Strengthen RCH Programme Implementation

Ramesh Bhat, Huntington Dale and Sunil Kumar Maheshwari

wp02022: Airport Privatization in India: Lessons from the Bidding Process in Delhi and Mumbai

Rekha Jain, G. Raghuram and Gangwar Rachna

wp02021: Rural Management Education in India: A Retrospect

Mankal Sriram

wp02020: Management of Blood Transfusion Services in India: An Illustrative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat States

K. V. Ramani, Dileep Mavalankar and Dipti Govil

wp02019: Linking Technical Education to Business Growth: A Case Study on Building Technical Skills in India

Rakesh Basant and Pankaj Chandra

wp02018: The Logistics Sector in India: Overview and Challenges

Pankaj Chandra and Nimit Jain

wp02017: Models in Management Science: Issues in Implementation

N. Ravichandran

wp02016: Reviving Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation: An Agenda for Action

N. Ravichandran and Surya Prasad M V N

wp02015: An Insight into the Growth of New Retail Formats in India

Piyush Kumar Sinha and Sanjay Kar

wp02014: Mid Day Meal Scheme: Understanding Critical Issues with Reference to Ahmedabad City

Satish Y. Deodhar, Mahandiratta Sweta, K. V. Ramani, Dileep Mavalankar, Ghosh Sandip and Vincent Braganza S J

wp02013: Management Capacity Assessment for National Health Programs: A study of RCH Program in Gujarat State

K. V. Ramani and Dileep Mavalankar

wp02012: Finland-India Business Prospects 2007-2017

Ajeet N. Mathur

wp02011: Turnaround of Indian Railways: A Critical Appraisal of Strategies and Processes

G. Raghuram

wp02010: Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World

Sebastian Morris

wp02009: A Study on Mush-room growth of Two-year Management Programme and its Impact on Quality of Management Education in Tamil Nadu

Subramanian Saravanan

wp02008: Analysis of Mixed Outcomes: Misclassified Binary Responses and Measurement Error in Covariates

Roy Surupa and Tathagata Banerjee

wp02007: Provision of Reproductive Health Services to Urban Poor through Public-Private Partnerships: The Case of Andhra Pradesh Urban Health Care Project

Ramesh Bhat, Dileep Mavalankar, Sunil Kumar Maheshwari and Saha Somen

wp02006: Attitudes of the Youth towards Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship: A Cross-cultural Comparison of India and China

A. Goel, Neharika Vohra, Zhang Liyan and Bhupinder Arora

wp02005: Contracting-out of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) Services through Mother NGO Scheme in India: Experiences and Implications

Ramesh Bhat, Sunil Kumar Maheshwari and Saha Somen

wp02004: Leveraged Innovation Management: Key Themes from the Journey of Dewrain Harvest Systems

M. R. Dixit and Girja Sharan

wp02003: Dynamics of Team Teaching and Research in a Management School: Learning and Imperatives

Sunil Kumar Maheshwari, M. R. Dixit, A. K. Jain and Ramesh Bhat

wp02002: A Study of Factors Affecting the Renewal of Health Insurance Policy

Ramesh Bhat and Nishant Jain

wp02001: Involving Private Healthcare Providers to Reduce Maternal Mortality in India: A Simulation Study to Understand Implications on Provider Incentives

Ramesh Bhat, Pankaj Chandra and Mukherjee Shantanu

wp02000: What Emotional Labor is: A Review of Literature

Sushanta Mishra

wp01999: A general method for constructing a test of multivariate normality

Desai Tejas A

wp01998: Cropping in Arid Area Greenhouse

G Sharan and Jethava Kamlesh

wp01997: Does the Emotional Labor of the Service Employee Affect the Self-concept of the Consumer in Service Organization?

Sushanta Mishra

wp01996: Methods for the Study of Downsizing: A Review

Richa Saxena

wp01995: Success: An Exploration

Parvinder Gupta

wp01994: Corporate Farming in India: Is it must for Agricultural Development?

Sukhpal Singh

wp01993: An Exploratory Study of Factors affecting MBA Students Attitude towards Learning via Case Study Pedagogy: Insights from Advertising Literature

Ramendra Singh and Piyush Kumar Sinha

wp01992: Tapping Economies of Scale and Scope in Consumer Cooperation - A Case Analysis of Possible Cooperation among selected Cooperatives

Samar K. Datta and Rahul Nilakantan

wp01991: Family and Store Choice - A Conceptual Framework

Sanjeev Tripathi, Piyush Kumar Sinha and Piyush Kumar Sinha

wp01990: An Assessment of the Impact of Distribution Channel Conflict on Channel Efficiency - Few Improvised Conceptual Models

Ramendra Singh

wp01989: Vision 2020: The Role and Scope of Operations Research Models

N. Ravichandran

wp01988: A Stochastic Linear Programming Model for Asset Liability Management: The Case of an Indian Insurance Company

Garg Ankur, Tiwari Apoorva, Goutam Dutta and Basu Shankarshan

wp01987: The Value-Congruity Relationship Model

Subhashini Kaul, Pradyumana Khokle and Abraham Koshy

wp01986: A Conceptual Note on Influencing Store Loyalty: Implications for Indian Retailers

Subhashini Kaul

wp01985: Identities and Store Image Formation: A Study of Retail Consumer Store Choice Behaviour

Subhashini Kaul

wp01984: Hedonism and Culture: Impact on Shopper Behaviour

Subhashini Kaul

wp01983: Is India Ready for Online Dispute Resolution?

Anurag K. Agarwal

wp01982: Degree of Instant Competition: Estimation of Market Power in India Instant Coffee Market

Satish Y. Deodhar and Vivek Pandey

wp01981: Risk Mitigation In Indian Film Industry: A Concept Note

Rajanish Dass, Kumar Sumit and Rungta Alok

wp01980: The Adoption and Economics of Bt Cotton in India: Preliminary Results from a Study

Vasant P. Gandhi and Namboodiri N V

wp01979: Wheat Marketing and its Efficiency in India

Vasant P. Gandhi and Abraham Koshy

wp01978: Economic Liberalization and Rural Land and Labour Markets in India: A Study

Vasant P. Gandhi

wp01977: Does the Gravity Model Explain India Direction of Trade? A Panel Data Approach

Ranajoy Bhattacharyya and Tathagata Banerjee

wp01976: Scaling Sparse Constrained Nonlinear Problems for Iterative Solvers

Gajulapalli Ravindra S and Lasdon Leon S

wp01975: Scaling Sparse Matrices for Optimization Algorithms

Gajulapalli Ravindra S and Lasdon Leon S

wp01974: A New Algorithm for Continuous Optimization

Desai Tejas A

wp01973: Maternal Health Financing – Issues and Options: A Study of Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat

Ramesh Bhat, Amarjit Singh, Sunil Kumar Maheshwari and Saha Somen

wp01972: An Optimization-Based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in a Process Industry: The Case of a Pharmaceutical Company in India

Goutam Dutta, Robert Fourer, Majumdar Akhilesh and Dutta Debabrata

wp01971: Managing Bullwhip Effect: Two Case Studies

N. Ravichandran

wp01970: Feasibility Study of Setting up Information Technology-Enabled Services (ITES) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Hubs in the North Eastern States of India: A Report

Rajanish Dass and Lethil Nangmuansang

wp01969: A Scheme for Efficient Subsidisation of Kerosene in India

Sebastian Morris, Ajay Pandey and Samir K. Barua

wp01968: IIMs Expansion - Myths, Realities and Policy Choices

Gupta Ramesh

wp01967: Capacity Management of Intensive Care Units in a multi-specialty Hospital in India

Vohra Seema, Goutam Dutta and Ghosh D K

wp01966: Small and Medium Enterprise in India - Overcoming Policy Constraints to Achieving Rapid Growth in a Globalizing Economy

Sebastian Morris and Rakesh Basant

wp01965: Factoring affecting the Demand for Health Insurance in a Micro Insurance Scheme

Nishant Jain and Ramesh Bhat

wp01964: Issues and Concerns in the Implementation and Maintenance of HRIS

Manjari Singh and Sandeep Krishnan

wp01963: Can Businesses in India ever resolve Disputes Speedily and Effectively?

Anurag K. Agarwal

wp01962: A First Cut Estimate of the Equity Risk Premium in India

Samir K. Barua and Jayanth Varma

wp01961: Missing Issues in the Debate on Reservation

Sebastian Morris

wp01960: An empirical investigation into randomly generated Euclidean symmetric traveling salesman problems

Diptesh Ghosh and Megha Sharma

wp01959: On Estimability of Parsimonious Term Structure Models: An Experiment with Three Popular Specifications

Vineet Virmani