Publications - Seminars Organised by the Institute Back

No. Name of Project
1 Interaction of Visual Merchandising with Children Aged 3-7

2 A Dynamic Analysis to Model Strategies to Transform Offline into Online Buying

3 Theory of Planned Behaviour: An Innovative Approach to Market Segmentatin

4 Knowledge Spillovrs: The Impact of Geography, Technology and Intra-firm Linkages

5 A Multi-dimensional Approach to Measure Efficiency of a Service Firm and the Impact of Quality on Firm Performance: Evidence from Indian Public Sector Banks

6 Investment and Productivity in Indian Agriculture

7 An Exploration of the Processes and Implications of Strategic Alliances and Supplier Partnerships: A Theoretical Synthesis

8 Managing Equity and Experiences: A Consumer Behaviour Perspective

9 Management Control Systems: International Perspective

10 Channel Design and Forecasting

11 Social and Scientific Literacy: Exploring the Crossroads for Social Reform, Equity and Economic Opportunities

12 Equity Holding by Development Financial Institutions in India: Motives and Effects on Firm Performance

13 Customer Rections to Dynamic Pricing

14 Innovations in Schools: Identifying A Framework for Initiating, Sustaining and Managing Them

15 Demographics, Pensions and Strategic Asset Allocation

16 Corporate Mythology: Story-Telling in Organizations

17 The Evolution of Policy in the South African Pharmaceutical Sector in the Context of the TRIPS Agreement

18 Current Issues at the WTO-Anti-Dumping, Countervailing Duties and Dispute Resolution

19 Economic Diplomacy

20 Making Services Work for Poor People: World Development Report 2004

21 Contract Farming for Agricultural Development: Experience of the Indian Pubjab and the North Thailand

22 Study and Demonstration of a Small Modern Supply Chain for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in the Ahmedabad Area

23 Financing of Agri-Business Projects

24 International Capital Flows and Global Development Finance

25 How Far Have We/They Come: Performance Scorecard for Major Emerging Market Economics

26 The Marginal Unit Shadow Price and its Relationship to the Average Shadow Price

27 Project Evaluation for Agri-Industry

28 Issues Related to Natural Resource Management & Watershed Development

29 Strategic Change in Pursuing Agricultural Growth and Poverty Reduction-Lessons from the Past

30 Issues in Financial Accounting & Reporting in Nonprofit Organisations: An Exploratory Study

31 Change the Data to Solve the Problem

32 HR Management in UN system and Managing Diversity

33 Role of ITC in AGricultural and Rural Development: A Case of e-Choupal

34 Statistical Quality Control for Angular Quality Characteristics

35 Corporate Diversification

36 Enhancing Decision Support Systems Through Problem Management and Multi-Tier Neural Networks

37 Challenges of Development of Education: Role of KLE Society

38 B2B Markets versus Hierarchies

39 Occams Razor via Information Criterion with Applications to the Stock Market Data

40 Agricultural EXIM Business: Challenges and Opportunities in a Global Economy

41 Barrier Algorithm Based on Higher Order Derivatives for Sparse Nonlinear Programming

42 Explaining the Difference in Basic Science Productivity of R&D Institutions: Comparison of Two R&D Labs under the CSIR

43 The Next Big Idea...? How Corporates Must Rethink their Approach to IT Spending

44 Indian Economic Reforms

45 Product Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities: An Experimental Study

46 Commodity Modelling and Its Usefulness for Policy Analysis

47 Rural Livelihood Promotion: Strategies and Institutions

48 Inventory Management of Fashion Items in Retail Chains

49 Missing Markets in the World Trading System

50 Emptying the Sea of Wealth? Reflection on the Globalization of the Gujarat Fishery from 1950 to 1999

51 A Flexible Model for Generalized Linear Regression with Measurement Error

52 North American Free Trade Agreement: Who Gained, Who Lost?

53 Determinants of Incidence and Modes of Alliances: A Study of Indian Information Technology Industry

54 Rural Poverty: Its Concepts, Causes and Alleviation Efforts

55 Sales Training: What We Know and What We Need to Know

56 The Financial Sector and its Relationship with the Real Sector: A "Potential Output Gap" Approach

57 Restructuring Processes: An Exploratory Study of Indian Organizations

58 Equity Pattern, Corporate Governance and Performance: A Study of Indias Corporate Sector

59 What is Right and What is Wrong with the U.S. Corporate Governance

60 Optimizing Revenue for Airline Networks and Alliances

61 Consumer Response to Sales Promotion: A Study of the Underlying Psychological Processes

62 Quality Improvements in Health in the Context of Reforms: Directions, Experience and Challenges

63 Triangulating on the Source: and Impact of Volume Flexibility

64 Role of Transferor Transferee Relationship in Technology Transfer

65 Internationalization of an Indian Pharmaceutical Company

66 Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Behaviour: Consequences on Organizational Outcomes

67 A Fault Threshold Policy to Manage Software Development Projects

68 International Trade in Agriculture: Beyond the Book

69 Rural Environment and Institutions/Organizations

70 Intellectual Property Rights in the Changing Legal and Economic Scenario in India

71 Media Selection Decision in Social System: A Fuzzy Goal Programming Approach

72 Globalization and Californias High-Tech Industry

73 Are Guarantees Needed for Private Infrastructure?

74 English in Global Advertising

75 Backgrounder to Monetary Policy in India

76 Debt Tolerance: A Model and Its Application to Indian States

77 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

78 Nanotechnology, The New Frontier: Need for Marrying Academics and Entrepreneurship

79 A Theory of Sharecropping and Interlinked Contracts

80 Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing After WTO

81 Managing Equity and Experiences: A Consumer Behaviour Perspective

82 My Experience in Teaching and Research in Marketing: A Retrospective View

83 Management of Change: Armys Perspective

84 Political Affiliation and Bank Run

85 Some Real-Life Applications and Implementations of Optimization in Financial Services

86 Grounded Theory Methods for Qualitative Research

87 Geographical Information System (GIS)

88 The Experience of Personnel Managers Implementing Downsizing Programmes

89 Structural Model of Locational Competition Among Gasoline Retailers: An Empirical Analysis

90 Finnish Education System

91 A Study of the Determinants of Executive Knowledge Management

92 Some Inferential Issues Concerning Non-Monotonic Aging Classes of Life Distributions

93 Taking Technology to the Marketplace

94 Analysing Sinusoidal Frequency Model

95 The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Operating Performance

96 Role of Knowledge Management in Strategy: Two Experiments

97 Korean Industrialization: Challenges and Managerial Issues

98 Organizational Resistance to Participatory Forest Management in Forest Dept., India

99 Market Efficiency, Fundamental Values, and Asset Return In Global Equity Markets

100 Targeting Agricultural Research on Poverty Alleviation

101 Research on Controversial Advertising

102 Efficient Techniques for Real-Time Frequent Pattern Mining

103 An Exploratory Study of the Factors Affecting Individual Knowledge Contributing and Knowledge Seeking Behaviours through Knowledge Repositories

104 Information Analysis in Workflows Represented as Task-Precedence Metagraphs

105 Stable and Farsighted Alliance Formations

106 Emotional Responses to Advertising: An Example of Application to Psychological Gender Differences, Applications for Advertising Format

107 Asymmetric Wholesale Pricing: Theory and Evidence

108 Legal Aspects and Healthcare

109 Modern Problems in Network Flows

110 Performance Analysis of Indian Banking System with an Objective to Analyse the Efficacy of Reforms

111 To Just Do It or To Do It Right: Expert and Novice Preference for Information Style

112 Radio Resource Management (RRM) at Switch Level for Cellular Mobile Service Providers

113 Purchase Professionals Cynicism about Cooperating with Suppliers: Does it Impact Top Management Efforts to Induce Relational Behaviours in Buyer-Seller Relationships?

114 Milk and Sugar: A Comparative Analysis of Cooperative Politics

115 Qualitative Methods in Management Doctoral Research

116 Liquidity in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Indias National Stock Exchange

117 ISO 9000 and Healthcare

118 Role of Farmers Organizations in Addressing the Problems of the Agriculture Sector

119 From Market Driven to Market Driving

120 Role of IT in Healthcare

121 Enterprise in Education: The Example of Educational Initiatives

122 Public Private Partnership in Health

123 ITC Experience with e-Choupal

124 The Burden of Cancer

125 An Evaluation Framework for e-Government Projects

126 An Exploratory-Formulative Study of the Morphology and Correlates of Executive Dispute Handling Capability

127 Global Agribusiness Trends and Future Outlook

128 Determinants and Outcomes of Intention to Quit of Indian IT Professionals

129 POLCA: The Material Control Strategy for Low-Volume and Custom-Engineered Products

130 Governance and Management of NGOs: A Test of Cohort and Donor Effect

131 Production of Water from Dew and its Utilization

132 A New Framework for the Solution of DEA Models

133 On Complete Diallen and Partial Diallen Crosses

134 Adaptive Designs in Sequential Experiments: An Overview

135 Integrity Function: A Formal Approach for Resource Allocation in Adversarial Environment

136 Future Energy Transitions in India: An Assessment of New and Renewable Energy Technologies

137 Explaining Adoption of Inter-Organizational Systems in the Context of e-Markets: Case Studies of Six Hong Kong based SME Trading Firms

138 Side-Bias and the Risk of Accidents

139 Debt Tolerance: A Model and its Appliations to Indian States

140 A Response to the Situationist in Business Ethics: Ascertaining the Role of Individual Character in Organizational Decision Making

141 Greenhouse Cultivation in a Hot Arid Area

142 China Agriculture: The New Agricultural Subsidies

143 Industry University Collaboration in India

144 Corporate Environmental Behaviour: A Study of Two Firms in the Indian Steel Industry

145 E-Governance Challenges: Sustainability of Telecentres

146 Marketing and Finance: The Impact of Branding Strategy on Firm Value

147 Trust and Organizational Commitment: A Study in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

148 a) Growth Strategies of Firms in the Indian ITES/BPO b) Productivity of Firms in the Indian ITES/BPO Industry

149 Small Change for Colossal Gains: Subtitling TV Songs for Mass Literacy

150 Emerging International Scenario

151 The Contract Transformation: A Framework for Network Supply Chain Analysis

152 Empirical Studies on the Diffusion and Valuation of the Internet

153 An Optimum Currency Area in South Asia: Is It Plausible?

154 A Study of Determinants of Customer Satisfaction with Retailing and Content Sites

155 A Scarcity Value Based Explanation of Transboundary Water Disputes in Water Scarce Economies: A Neoclassical Interpretation of the Hostile Hydropolitics in the Cauvery River Basin in South India

156 Interactive Session with World's Youngest CEO

157 On Governance and Globalization: The Structure of Ownership and the Internationalization of the Indian Corporation

158 Foreign Entry and Restructuring of Domestic Industry: A Study of White Goods and Color Television Sectors in India

159 What to Think About When Considering an Adaptive Design

160 What to Think About When Considering an Adaptive Design

161 International Technology Transfer and Development of Capability in China

162 Determinants of Knowledge Flows and Firm Performance in Industrial Clusters

163 Property Without Borders: When TRIPS Falls

164 Operational and Strategic Decisions in Competitive Indian Auto Components Replacement Market

165 A Recipe for Capacitated Planning and Scheduling Problem with a Large Product Variety

166 Tax Reforms in India

167 The Concept of Bottleneck in Job Shop Scheduling

168 Managing Cultural Complexity in the Workforce: Lessons from Exemplary Global Managers

169 Mergers, Acquisitions, and Trading in a Synthetic Environment with Heterogeneous Investors

170 An Empirical of the Relationship Between Leverage, R&D, and Corporate Performance

171 Computing an Equilibrium Pair for Bimatrix Games

172 IP & IPR Management: The Techno-legal Perspective

173 Organic Farming: The Real Green Revolution for Protecting the Earth, Farmers Livelihood and Public Health

174 Information Management and the Effectiveness of Cross-Cultural: A Network Perspective

175 Sharing Entrepreneurial Experiences: Building a Medical Devices Business

176 The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation and Utilization in Firms

177 Ensuring Secrecy: Visual Cryptographic Schemes via Combinatorial Designs

178 Competitive Markets, Economic Reforms and Governance: A Theoretical Perspective

179 A Public Private Partnership Model for Managing Urban Health in Ahmedabad City: A GIS Application

180 The Impact of Capital Structure on Advertising Competition: An Empirical Study

Dr. Piyush Kumar University of Georgia ,
181 Creation of New Communities as a Result of Globalisation, and its Impact on Creativity

Prof. Jean Biarnes University of Paris ,
182 Browse and Switch: Retail-Online Competition under Value Uncertainty

Prof. Anant Balakrishnan University of Texas ,
183 From Data Mining to Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction

Dr. Sounak Chakraborty University of Missouri ,
184 Change Point Problems for Linear and Directional Data: Recent Advances and Applications

Prof. Arnab Kumar Laha IIM, Ahmedabad ,
185 Internet-based Telemedicine: From Theory to Real – World Practice

Dr. Samir Chatterjee Claremont Graduate University ,
186 Assessing NSE’s Daily Zero Coupon Yield Curve Estimates: A Comparison with Few Competing Alternatives

Mr. Vineet Virmani IIM, Ahmedabad ,
187 Organizational Excellence and Value-Based Leadership

Prof. S.P. Mukherjee (Retd.) Centenary Prof. of University of Calcutta ,
188 Fabindia Marketing Area Industry Interaction Seminar

Mr. William Nanda Bissel Fabindia Mr. Sunil Chainani Fabindia Ms. Anita Thapar Kathpalia Head Home and Body Care Business ,
189 Corruption Across Countries and Regions: Some Consequences of Local Osmosis

Prof. Raaj Sah University of Chicago ,
190 Related Contracts in Supply Chain Management

Prof. Erica Plambeck Stanford University ,
191 The Governance of Collaborative Spaces: Democratic and Methodological Considerations

Dr. Navdeep Mathur University of Birmingham ,
192 Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Choices

Prof. Manish Kumar Thakar,
193 Influence of the Strategic Window on Founding and Sheltering of Firms

Dr. G.R. Chandrasekhar,
194 Do Affirmative Action Policies Increase Educational Attainment?

Prof. Ankur Sarin Mathematica Policy Research Inc. ,
195 Reflexive Dispossession and the Self: Constructing a Processual Theory of Identity

Dr. Helene Cherrier University of Sydney ,
196 Addressing the Quality Gap in Primary Education – Gyanshala Approach

Prof. Pankaj Jain,
197 The Complementary and Conflicting Roles of Trust for Marketing Oriented Boundary Spanners

Dr. Jagdip Singh Case Western Reserve University ,
198 The Role of Managerial Choice in Theories of Equity Ownership: Do Managers Choose According to Theory?

Dr. Prashant Kale,
199 Ten Rules for Strategic Innovations

Prof. Vijay Govindrajan Tuck School ,
200 Managing Conflict Between the West and China: How Diverse People Can Develop a Common Approach

Prof. Dean Tjosvold,
201 Globalization and the Changing Nature of Security

Prof. T.V. Paul McGill University ,
202 Earning Guidance and Managerial Myopia

Prof. K.R. Subramanyam,
203 Can Confluence Catalyse Innovation or Evolution of Adaptable Decision Systems and Business Networks?

Dr. Shoumen Datta MIT ,
204 Policy Choices for Accumulation of Wealth in a Dynamic Stochastic Bullock Economy

Dr. Arnab Mukherji Pardee RAND Graduate School ,
205 Aligning Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate Change Policies: Modelling Framework and Empirical Assessment

Dr. Amit Garg,
206 Diversify or Consolidate? Firm Behaviour in the Indian Software Industry

Dr. Swati Mishra,
207 Opportunities and Challenges for the Semiconductor Industry in India

Dr. Vinod Agrawal,
208 Livelihoods Enhancement Opportunities in North East India

Prof. Sanjiv J Phansalkar,
209 Training and Mentoring in the ICS: The Memoirs of Indian ICS Officers

Dr. Meenakshi Sharma IMT ,
210 Measuring Consumer Preferences for Sales Promotion Schemes through Conjoint Design in FMCG Sector

Dr. Preeta Vyas IIM, Ahmedabad ,
211 Alternative Proposals for Efficient Delivery of Kerosene Subsidies

Dr. S. K. Nanda Principal Secretary Govt. of Gujarat & Prof. Sebastian Morris IIM, Ahmedabad ,
212 Managing Health of Middle Aged Women

Mrs. Dipti Govil IIM, Ahmedabad ,
213 Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure

Senator Edward Murray Washington State, USA,
214 Sachar Committee Presentation on the Socio Economic and Educational Conditions of Muslims in India

Prof. Rakesh Basant IIM, Ahmedabad ,
215 Indian Parliament: Opportunities and Challenges for Shaping Policy

Mr. C.V. Madhukar PRS Legislative Research, New Delhi ,
216 Indian Real Estate Scenario – Opportunities and Challenges

Mr. Deepak Bhavsar ,
217 Nirmal Gujarat Programme and the challenges within

Mrs. Anita Karwal, IAS Nirmal Gujarat Mission,
218 The Impact of Discount Rate Changes on Market Interest Rates: Evidence from Three European Countries and Japan

Dr. Rama Seth,
219 Spatial concentration in Europe versus the US: From Gini analysis to geopolitical assessment

Prof. Hans Huber IIT-Bombay ,
220 Pricing European Options on Stochastically Volatile Assets

Prof. Sankarshan Basu IIM, Bangalore ,
221 The Dynamic Instability of Price Dispersion

Dr. Ratul Lahkar University College London ,
222 Inclusive Financial Systems: Some Design Principles and a Case Study

Dr. Nachiket Mor ICICI Bank Ltd. ,
223 Developing Human Capital and Social Capital for Ensuring Sustainable Change : The Implications of an Emerging Knowledge Economy

Prof. Joseph Kessels University of Twente Netherlands ,
224 Hospital Infection Control Programmes in India

Ms. Samruddhi Thaker IIM Ahmedabad ,
225 Fat Tailed Distributions, Copulas and their Role in “Value-at-Risk” Measurement

Dr. Rajeeva L. Karandikar Cranes Software International Ltd ,
226 Leading Change and Transformation in the Indian Railways

Mr. Sudhir Kumar, IAS Govt. of India ,
227 Shedding Load Shedding in Pune: A Successful Experiment of PPP and CSR

Mr. Pradeep Bhargava Cummins Generator Technologies India Ltd., ,
228 The Public Policy Environment in India

Mr. Om Prakash Agarwal Infrastructure Development and Finance Company Ltd ,
229 Internationalization Routines and Capability Learning in New Ventures

Dr. Shameen Prashantham University of Glasgow ,
230 Public Private Partnerships in Infrastructure – The Indian Experience

Mr. K Venkatesh L&T Limited ,
231 The Right to Information Act

Mr. R.C. Iyer, IAS,
232 Cities of Opportunities: Trends in Urban Development

Mr. Keshav Varma World Bank ,
233 Arbitration and Public Policy

Prof. Anurag K. Agarwal IIM Ahmedabad ,
234 Generic Strategies and Sustainability of Financial Performance

Prof. Arindam Tripathy,
235 Innovation and Control in the Multinational Firm: A Comparison of Political and Contingency Approaches

Dr. Bodo Schlegelmilch Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Australia ,
236 Managing the Consequences of Development Induced Displacement - Displacement and Rehabilitation Issues in Governance

Dr. Hari Mohan Mathur, PhD. (Retd. IAS, Former VC, Rajasthan University.),
237 Retail Pricing and Shelf Space Allocation with Demand Learning

Dr. Anshu Jalora PROS Revenue Mgmt. Houston, USA ,
238 The Narmada Dams - Displacement and Rehabilitation Issues in Governance

Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar Gujarat Vidyapeeth Mr. M.S. Dagur (I.A.S.), Prof. Anil Gupta IIM, Ahmedabad ,
239 Range-Based Volatility Forecasting

Prof. Joshy Jacob,
240 Inclusive Cities in India? Displacement and Rehabilitation Issues in Governance

Dr. Darshini Mahadevia, CEPT University, Ahmedabad,
241 The Real Estate Scenario and the Sub-Prime Crisis in the US

Prof. Brian (Tony) Ciochetti, Thomas G. Eastman MIT, USA ,
242 Adjustment to Capital Adequacy Rations by Indian Banks

Dr. Meera Sharma,
243 Education and the Modernity of India

Dr. Nita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont CA USA ,
244 Credit Rating and Related Aspects

Mr. Ankur Sachdeva, Business Development with Credit Analysis and Research Limited ,
245 Politics of Economic Reforms: Are Reforms Pro-Poor?

Mr. Rajul Awasthi, Ministry of Finance Government of India ,
246 Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems

Dr. Joydeep Dutta, IIT Kanpur ,
247 Performance Modeling of Web Servers under Overload

Dr. Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, Mumbai ,
248 ADB Operations in India

Mr. Hiranya Mukhopadhyay India Resident Mission of the ADB ,
249 Carrier-Forwarder Contracts in the Air Cargo Industry

Dr. Diwakar Gupta, University of Minnesota USA ,
250 Development in Credit Rating Industry in India: An Overview

Mr.P K Choudhary, ICRA Ltd ,
251 Infrastructure Finance: Public Private Partnership

Mr. K K Mohanty, Srei Infrastructure Finanace Ltd ,
252 Dedicated Freight Corridor

Mr.V K Kaul, Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd ,
253 Building Capacity of Community-Based Educators in India: Research Based Guidelines

Ms. Harini Raval, The University of Twente Netherland ,
254 Small-scale Non-farm Enterprises in India: An Enquiry into its Problems

Dr. Jayan Jose Thomas Madras School of Economics ,
255 Analysis of Dynamic Integrated Supply Chains Using Novel Hybrid Approaches

Dr. Vipul Jain, INRIA-Lorraine France ,
256 Synthesis of Some Traditional and Contemporary Thought In Management Research: Personal Narrative of a Novice Researcher

Dr. Ashish Kumar Pandey, MDI, Gurgaon ,
257 Removal of Religious Encroachments

Shri. Sanjay Dubey, IAS Government of Madhya Pradesh,
258 ISO Certification for Collector office in Jabalpur

Shri. Sanjay Dubey, IAS Government of Madhya Pradesh,
259 Girl Children in the Care Economy: Domestics in West Bengal

Dr. Deepika Chakravarty Centre for Economic and Social Studies Hyderabad ,
260 Shell Energy Scenario to 2050

Dr. Jeremy Bentham, Global Business Environment Shell International B.V. ,
261 Developing Programmatic Research

Dr. Vinay K. Garg, Missouri State University USA ,
262 Coal Sector in India- Retrospect and Prospects

Shri. Partha Bhattacharyya Coal India Ltd, Kolkata ,
263 Public Private Partnership

Mr. Gajendra Haldea, Planning Commission New Delhi ,
264 Transformation for Public Service Delivery

Shri. R. Chandrashekhar Government of India New Delhi ,
265 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals

Ms. Amita Sharma Government of India New Delhi ,
266 Emerging Asian Countries versus the Shadows of the Industrial Revolution in the West

Prof. Gilbert Etienne, Institute of International Studies and Development Geneva ,
267 Global Meltdown: What’s Economic Theory Got to Do With It?

Lord Meghnad Desai, London School of Economics,
268 Vision 2020

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India ,
269 International Experience of Urban Poverty and Management

Dr. David Souter ICT Development Associates ,
270 Toy Recalls and China: Emotion Vs. Evidence

Dr. Hari Bapuji, University of Manitoba Canada ,
271 Holistic Statistics and Contemporary Life Sciences

Prof. Kanti V. Mardia, University of Leeds England ,
272 Where there is a will: Fertility behaviour and sex bias in large families

Prof. Tarun Jain, University of Virginia, USA ,
273 What is the Value of Real-Time Shipment Tracking Information?

Prof. M.M. Srinivasan, The University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA ,
274 Indian Agriculture and its Sustainability

Dr. S.M. Jharwal, Ministry of Agriculture Government of India New Delhi ,
275 The Impact of Social Contagion on What to buy, How to buy and Whom to buy from: Evidence from High-Tech Durable Goods Market

Prof. Rakesh Niraj, Marshall School of Business University of Southern California ,
276 Do Those With Common Afflictions Crowd Together?: The Search for Configurations of BPO Firms

Prof. Kirti Sharda, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ,
277 A Multi-level Analysis of Organizational and Individual Determinants of Performance and Satisfaction of Frontline Employees in Service Organizations

Prof. Jagdip Singh, Case Western Reserve University, USA ,
278 International Experience of Urban Poverty and Management

Prof. Isabelle Milbert, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva ,
279 Role of Whistle blowers in State/ Corporate Governance

Mr. M.N. Vijayakumar, IAS ,
280 Analyzing Politics

Prof. Krishna Ladha, University of Maryland Baltimore ,
281 Justice in an adversarial system with a Judge, a Prosecutor and a Defendant

Prof. Krishna Ladha, University of Maryland Baltimore ,
282 Business cycle accounting for India in a multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model

Ms. Sohini Sahu, State University of New York, Albany ,
283 ICTs and the Internet Economy: Issues and Challenges

Dr. Prabir Neogi, Government of Canada ,
284 Centre – State Relations: Issues and Concerns

Dr. Madhava Menon, Commission on Centre-State Relations, New Delhi ,
285 Value Chain Management of Globally Operating Companies

Prof. Niina Nummela, International Business Turku School of Economics, Finland ,
286 Public Sector Restructuring and Reform in the UK, Context and Labour Relations Implications

Dr. David Beale, University of Manchester, UK ,
287 London as an International Financial Centre: The regulation on the financial sector that underlie

Mr. Stuart John Fraser, Policy & Resources Committee City of London ,
288 Public Policy and Governance Issues in the Changing Environment

Mr. B. S. Baswan, IAS Indian Institute of Public Administration New Delhi ,
289 A Non—Parametric Cost Approach to Measuring Scale Economies

Dr. Biresh K. Sahoo, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore ,
290 How Much Demand Should Be Fulfilled?

Dr. Amar Sapra, University of Florida Gainesville, USA ,
291 Capacity Planning Under Demand Uncertainty: Impact of Postponement Decisions and Product Flexibility

Mr. Dipankar Bose, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata ,
292 Innovation and Ideation for the IT and Mobile segment

Rahul Agarwal, Erehwon Innovation Consulting Pvt Ltd ,
293 Intricacies of Different Employment and Labour Issues

Vikram Shroff & Parul Jain, Nishith Desai Associates ,
294 Maintaining and Enhancing Internal Legitimacy of the Alternate Organizational Identity in Dual-identity Organizations

Prarthan B. Desai, IIM, Bangalore ,
295 Employment Discrimination against Skilled Visible Minority Immigrants in Canada

Chetan Joshi, Richard Ivey School of Business University of Western Ontario ,
296 Price Impact of Block Trades and Price Behaviour Surrounding Block Trades in Indian Capital Market

Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla, IIM, Ahmedabad ,
297 Recession and the Road to Recovery: Comparison of US, Japan and Germany

Dr. Ashoka Mody, International Monetary Fund ,
298 Breaking the Impediments to Budgetary Reforms: Evidence from Europe

Dr. Ashoka Mody, International Monetary Fund ,
299 Ventures in Education for 21st Century

Dr. Paul Kim, Stanford University School of Education ,
300 Indian BPO Industry and its Future Prospects

Raman Roy, Quattro ,
301 Why Ireland for R & D?

Aditi Gajelli, IDA, Ireland ,
302 An Attempt to Understand the Functioning and Growth of Indian Diamond Industry and Proposing a Behavioral Model of Organizational Culture

Dr. Indu Rao, IIM, Ahmedabad ,
303 Crafting India’s Urban Vision

Enrique Penalosa, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy New York ,
304 Design Thinking – An Alternate Strategic Management Approach in Large Organizations

Chirag Mehta,
305 ADB's Strategy to Support Infrastructure Development in India

Rajat Nag, Asian Development Bank ,
306 Brainstorming Session - Exploring Ways to Create Ahmedabad and Gujarat as Cleantech Hub of the Country

Ravi Vora, Torrent Power Ahmedabad ,
307 Planning for Urban Transport in India

O. P. Agarwal, IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation ,
308 Product Market Competition and Corporate Disclosure Policy

Dr. Ashiq Ali, University of Texas ,
309 Gender, Downward Influence and Affect

Prof. Asha Kaul, IIM Ahmedabad ,
310 Talent Management Strategy of Employee Engagement: Issues of Retention

Dr. Jyotsna Bhatnagar, Management Development Institute Gurgaon ,
311 Negotiating Technology Frames: Constructing A Cross-Temporal Enterprise Resource Planning Technology In South Indian Manufacturing Organizations

George Mathew Kandathil, ILR School at Cornell University ,
312 How Innovation Firms are Transforming the Market Place with Meaningful Products, Services and Experiences

Doreen Lorenzo, Frog Design ,
313 How to Raise VC Funding

Alay Desai,
314 A Multi-Dimensional Appraisal of India during the Era of Growth

Dr. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi ,
315 National Workshop on Capacity Building for Scouting, Documentation, Dissemination and Incubation of Green Grassroots Innovations

Prof. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad ,
316 Organic Input Production and Marketing in India – Efficiency, Issues and Policies

Dr. Kumara Charyulu Deevi, IIM Ahmedabad ,
317 Efficiency and Market Power Gains in Megabank Mergers

Dr. Srinivasan Krishnamurthy, College of Management North Carolina State University, Raleigh ,
318 Workplace Spirituality: An Overview

Prof. Badrinarayan S. Pawar, IIM Kozhikode ,
319 Evolution of Search: An Entrepreneurial Perspective

Mr. Abhijit Sahay, TipTop Technologies Inc. ,
320 Impact of Model Uncertainty on Pricing of Exotic Options: An Illustration

Mr. Vineet Virmani, Nomura Services India,
321 The Theoretical Value of Studying Indian Multinationals

Prof. Ravi Ramamurti, North Eastern University, Boston ,
322 Profit Power for Indian Companies: What Indian Companies must do to Maintain Global Competitive Advantage

Dr. Mia de Kuijper, de Kuijper Global Partners, USA ,
323 Vedyadhaaraa: A System of Unified Open e-Learning for Open and Conventional Education

Dr. K.R. Srivathsan, IGNOU, New Delhi ,
324 Adaptiveness in Water Management Institutions in India: A Study of its Nature, Existence and Impact

Prof. Vaibhav Bhamoriya, IIM Ahmedabad ,
325 Coal Use and Climate Change Concerns for India

Prof. Amit Garg, IIM Ahmedabad ,
326 Indian Economic Performance in Recent Times – Key Trends and their Basis in Policy

Prof. Sebastian Morris, IIM Ahmedabad ,
327 Equity Valuation of Microfinance Institutions

Dr. Prakash Singh, IIM Lucknow ,
328 Amending Safe Harbors to Reduce Systemic Risk in OTC Derivatives Markets

Dr. Bruce Tuckman, USA ,
329 Executive Stock Options: Value to the Executive and Cost to the Firm

Dr. Ashay Kadam, Finance Cass Business School, City University, London ,
330 Lessons from PPPs of Indian Railways and Way Forward

Prof. G. Raghuram, IIM Ahmedabad ,
331 The Impact of Emigration on Source Country Wages: Evidence from the Republic of Moldova

Dr. Saumik Paul The World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA ,
332 Other-regarding Preferences and Concerns for Procedure

Dr. Abhinash Borah, Penn Institute for Economic Research, University of Pennsylvania ,
333 Star Wars: Exclusive Talent and Collusive Outcomes in Labor Markets

Prof. Arijit Mukherjee, Michigan State University, USA ,
334 Volume Volatility in Dual Markets: Lessons from Chinese ADRs

Dr. Malay K. Dey, NYIT, New York ,
335 Customers’ Relational Behaviour

Dr. Richa Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras ,
336 Examining the Validity of Hofstede National Culture Dimensions/Scores

Dr. Sunil Venaik, The University of Queensland, Australia ,
337 Identifying Dimensions for the International Positioning Process: Study of Defence Systems

Dr. Somesh Kumar Sharma, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur ,
338 Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance

Prof. Viral V. Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business, New York ,
339 A Pyrrhic Victory? - Bank Bailouts and Sovereign Credit Risk

Prof. Viral V. Acharya, New York University Stern School of Business, New York ,
340 Model-based Approach to Small Area Estimation

Dr. Gauri Sankar Datta, University of Georgia, USA ,
341 Internal Controls over Financial Reporting in the Context of Offshore Outsourcing: A Theoretical based Research Agenda

Dr. Partha S. Mohapatra, University of Maryland, USA ,
342 Strategic Framing Work(s): How Microcredit Loans Facilitate Anti-witch Hunt Movements

Prof. Soma Chaudhuri, Michigan State University, USA ,
343 Asymmetric Effects of Brand Extension Success or Failure on Parent Brand and Flagship Product Evaluation

Mr. Pronobesh Banerjee, University of Kansas ,
344 Internet Channel and Perceived Cannibalization: Scale Development and Validation in a Personal Selling Context

Dr. Dheeraj Sharma, The University of Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada ,
345 Technology and Literacy in Developing Countries: Theoretical Concerns and Implementation Issues

Prof. Dan Wagner, University of Pennsylvania, USA ,
346 NIF-NMPB Collaborative Workshop on Development of Database of Less Common Medicinal Plants and Associated Traditional Knowledge

Prof. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad ,
347 Enforcement Strategies in Response to `Cartel Problems’: Evidence from European Commission Prosecuted Cartels

Dr. Oindrila De, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, UK University of East Anglia, Norwich ,
348 Regulation and Welfare: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the US Pharmaceutical Industry

Mr. Chirantan Chatterjee, Carnegie Mellon University ,
349 Competition for News on Television and Quality

Prof. Errol D'Souza, IIM Ahmedabad,
350 Price Perception of Discounts on Individual Items on Consumer Led complementary Product Bundles: Reaction to End of Season Sales and Implications for Retailer Pricing

Prof. Arvind Sahay IIM Ahmedabad ,
351 The Impact of Tacit Knowledge on Relationship Strength and Relationship Continuity in Business-to-Business Relationships between p-KIBS and their Clients

Dr. Suren Sista IIM Bangalore ,
352 The role of Haptic Touch on Product Evaluation in Different Shopping Situations

Mr. Abhishek, Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad ,
353 If you Trust me, Will You Pay More

Mr. Sanjeev Tripathi, Fellow, IIM Ahmedabad ,
354 Executive Social Representation of Rurality and Product Adaptation – A Case of Rural Markets in India

Dr. Guda Sridhar, IIM Kozhikode ,
355 Investment Decisions on Technology

Mr. Kalyan Mitra, Patonomics AB, Sweden ,
356 Innovation in Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Soumyadipta Acharya, Johns Hopkins University ,
357 Factors Associated with Direct Care Worker Quits and Lay-Offs/Discharges: An Effect History Analysis Approach

Dr. Monika Setia, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore ,
358 Medical Negligence: Law and Interpretation

Prof. Anurag K. Agarwal IIM Ahmedabad ,
359 Social Power as means of Increasing Personal and Organizational Effectiveness: The Mediating role of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

Dr. Ajay K. Jain, Management Development Institute Gurgaon ,
360 Dividend Policies of Exporting Firms in India

Dr. P. V. Viswanath, Department of Finance and Economics, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York ,
361 Sparking Creativity in Groups: Thinking Inside and Out of the box

Dr. Jonali Baruah, Southern Methodist University Dallas ,
362 Executive and Changing Dynamics of Capitalism

Dr. G. Shrinivasan, Faculty of Business Administration University of New Brunswick Canada ,
363 Emotional Labor Strategies and its Consequences: Explaining Inconsistency in Research findings

Prof. Sushanta Kumar Mishra, IIM Indore ,
364 Mutual Information and a Two Sample Test

Dr. Apratim Guha, University of Birmingham ,
365 Why is Harvard #1? Governance and the Dominance of US Universities

Prof. Shailendra Mehta, IIM Ahmedabad ,
366 The Impact of Perceived Crowding on Consumers’ Store Patronage Intentions: Role of Optimal Stimulation Level and Shopping Motivation

Ms. Ritu Mehta, Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, IIT Kanpur ,
367 A Meta Analysis on Adoption of Mobile Financial Services

Prof. Rajanish Dass, IIM Ahmedabad ,
368 An Optimization-based Decision Support System for Strategic Planning in Process Industries

Prof. Goutam Dutta, IIM Ahmedabad ,
369 Future of Leadership Development in the National Health Service (NHS), UK: Insights from the NHS South West Clinical Fellowship (2010)

Dr. Shuchi Sinha,
370 Diversity and Inclusion: Effective Communication Strategies and Skills for Global Leaders

Prof. Peggy Hazard, Global Novations LLC ,
371 Renewable Energy and the Opportunity in India

Mr. Deepak Gupta, Ministry of New Renewable Energy ,
372 INFUSE - Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy – The International Perspective

Mr Justin Adams, B P Ventures ,
373 INFUSE - Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy

Dr Farooq Abdullah Minister for New and Renewable Energy ,
374 INFUSE - Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy – Renewable Energy and the Opportunity in India

Mr. Deepak Gupta, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy ,
375 INFUSE - Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy – Enabling Entrepreneurship in India

Mr H K Mittal, Technology Development Board ,
376 INFUSE - Indian Fund for Sustainable Energy

Shri Narendra Modi, Chief Minister, Govt. of Gujarat ,
377 Why Critical Management Studies?

Prof. Ion Voicu Sucala, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca/Romania ,
378 Term Structure and Monetary Policy: A Case of Multiple Instruments

Dr. Rudra Sensarma, University of Hertfordshire Business School Hertfordshire ,
379 The Impacts of the Installation of the Water Meter in Indian Cities

Mr. Akil Amiraly, Postdoctoral Fellow Ecole Polytechnique, France ,
380 Paradoxical Tensions and Unique Opportunities of Hybrid Business Models: A Framework and an Illustrative Case Study

Prof. Anand Kumar Jaiswal, IIM Ahmedabad ,
381 Videoconferencing on “Supermarketization: Who Wins, Who loses?”

Dr. Jayant Anand, University of Wisconsin ,
382 Critical Policy Analysis: Technical Knowledge in a World of Multiple Realities

Prof. Frank Fischer, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey ,
383 Networking and Organizational Performance: Decline and Turnaround of a Firm in India

Prof. Sunil Maheshwari, IIM Ahmedabad ,
384 A Chance Constraints Goal Programming Model for the Advertising Planning Problem

Prof. Utpal Bhattacharya, IIM Indore ,
385 Management of Production-Inventory Systems (with a Focus on the Relevant Cost Formulation and Variation of Parameters)

Prof. Sanjay Sharma, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai ,
386 On Fractile Regression

Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata ,
387 Scheduling Problems with Discrete and Batch Processor Machine in Automobile Gear Manufacturing

Dr. Ravindra Gokhale IIM Indore ,
388 Scheduling Problems with Discrete and Batch Processor Machine in Automobile Gear Manufacturing

Dr. Ravindra Gokhale, IIM Indore ,
389 Exploring Leadership Characteristics for Innovators

Dr. Sharadindu, Gautam Buddha University, Noida ,
390 Determinants of Liquidation and Reorganization: Empirical Evidence from UK and France?

Dr. Nirjhar Nigam, ESSEC Business School, Paris,
391 Comparing the Importance of Luxury Value Perceptions in Cross-National Contexts

Dr. Keyoor Purani, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode ,
392 Solving the Two-Facility Network Design Problem with 3-Partition Facets

Mr. Faiz Hamid, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow ,
393 Lagrangian based procedure to solve multi item capacitated dynamic demand lot sizing problem with back orders and setup times

Dr. Mayank Verma, Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, Mumbai ,
394 Can Birds of a Feather Fly Together? The Payoffs of Ethics Proximity in US Venture Capital

Prof. Deepak Hegde, Stern School of Business, NewYork University, NewYork ,
395 Power Struggles, Tunneling Incentives and Investment Efficiency in Diversified Business Groups

Ms. Nivedita Sinha, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
396 Quantity Discounts in Emerging Markets

Prof. Sameer Mathur, McGill University, Canada ,
397 Estimation and Clustering of Insurance Company Cost Curves Using a Bayesian Approach

Mr. Karthik Sriram, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
398 Marketing Social Marketing to Better Address Social Problems

Prof. Sameer Deshpande, University of Lethbridge, Canada ,
399 Sub Maximal Differentiation in Consumer Product Markets

Dr. Ramanathan Subramaniam, University of Kansas, Lawrence ,
400 Impact of Deregulation of Government Securities Market on Interest Costs of the States in India

Prof. Shubhasis Day, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode ,
401 EXIM Data and the Role of DGCI&S

Dr. Dipankar Sinha, DGCI&S, Kolkata ,
402 Multiple Quality Characteristics Optimization in Multistage Manufacturing Process

Mr. Sasadhar Bera, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai ,
403 Relationship between State and NGO Service Providers in South Asia with Focus on Sanitation

Ms. Padmaja Nair,
404 The End of Core: Should Disruptive Innovation in Telecommunications Invoke Discontinuous Regulation?

Chintan Vaishnav, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge ,
405 The Impact of Leadership on Employee Creativity: Evidence from India

Prof. Vishal Gupta, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta ,
406 Design of Survivable Telecommunication Network: A Polyhedral Approach

Prof. Yogesh Agarwal, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow ,
407 Isolation or opportunity? Experimental analysis of a housing programme for urban slum dwellers in India

Dr. Sharon Barnhardt, Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai ,
408 A Moderating Smile: Seller Concession Patterns and Buyer Price Expectations

Prof. Atanu R. Sinha, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
409 How Does Rationalization and its Interactions with Pressure and Opportunity Affect Fraudulent Financial Reporting?

Dr. Naman Desai, University of Central Florida, USA ,
410 Co-Movement of Skill Premium and Stock Prices

Dr. Kausik Gangopadhyay,
411 Conflicting Family Values in Mutual Fund Families

Prof. Utpal Bhattacharya, Indiana University, Bloomington ,
412 On Fairness of Seeding in a Knockout Tournament and Tracking Progress of teams in a Round-Robin Tournament

Dr. Shubhabrata Das, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
413 Emergency Department Staff Planning to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Costs

Mr. Subhamoy Ganguly, University of Colorado ,
414 Between Denigration and Admiration: Understanding Postcolonial Mimicry in Indian Advertising

Dr. Rohit Varman, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta ,
415 Antieigenvalues and Antieigenvectors in Applied Statistics

Dr. Ravi Khattree, Oakland University, Michigan ,
416 Organizing for Quality

Prof. Anupam Agrawal, University of Illinois ,
417 An Agency Theoretic Model of Employee Cooperation and Shirking Under Internal Labour Market Practices

Dr. Ramanathan Subramaniam, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ,
418 New Directional and Shape Analysis with Cutting Edge Applications

Professor Kanti V. Mardia, University of Leeds ,
419 Feedback Models of Top-N News Recommendation Systems

Dr. Shankar Prawesh, University of South Florida, Tampa ,
420 Over-regulation of Venture Capital Funds within the Dodd-Frank Act

Dr. K. Vaidya Nathan, Santa Clara University, California ,
421 Changes in Firm Knowledge Couplings and Firm Innovation Performance: The Moderating Role of Technological Complexity

Dr. Sai Yayavaram, National University of Singapore, Singapore ,
422 Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, and Social Norms in Solving Holdout Problems in Land Aggregation for Global Companies

Dr. Pavan Mamidi, Harvard Law School, Cambridge ,
423 Who Gets to the Top: Generalists versus Specialists in Managerial Organizations

Prof. Raaj K Sah, University of Chicago ,
424 Trend and Cyclical Decoupling: New Estimates Based on Spectral Causality Tests and Wavelet Correlations

Prof. Amlendu Dubey, Indian Institute of Management, Indore ,
425 Hidden Costs of Offshore Outsourcing: An Analysis of Offshoring Decisions

Mr. Deeparghya Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
426 Innovation by Emerging Economy Multinationals in Newly Emerging Industries

Dr. Snehal S. Awate, Temple University, Philadelphia ,
427 Heisenberg's Uncertainty: Physics, Ethics and Politics

Dr. Ranadhir Mitra Pennsylvania State University ,
428 Improving the Effectiveness of Multi-Sector Partnerships Where No One is in Charge: Generalizing from the Case of Flood Defences in the UK

Prof. Jonathan Gosling, University of Exeter ,
429 Imported Intermediate Inputs and Workforce Composition: Evidence from India’s Tariff Liberalization

Ms. Shruti Sharma, University of California, Santa Cruz ,
430 Frailty Survival Model: Some Applications in Finance

Dr. Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore ,
431 A Polyhedral Study for the Optimal Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Mr. Ashutosh Nigam Indian Institute of Management Lucknow ,
432 Revisiting the Value of Business Group Affiliation: Longitudinal Evidence from the Indian Market

Mr. Narahari Hansoge Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ,
433 Information Asymmetry, Line of Credit and Term Loan Pricing

Ms. Charu Agarwal University of Illinois ,
434 Developing Holistic Framework for Low-Carbon Supply Chain

Dr. Niraj Kumar Sheffield University ,
435 Development of a Causal Framework Linking High Performance HRM Practices, Positive Psychological Capital, Creative Behaviours and Performance

Prof. Vishal Gupta Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ,
436 Time Varying GARCH Model and Related Statistical Inference

Dr. Neelabh Rohan Indian Statistical Institute Tezpur ,
437 Mutual Information and a Two Sample Test

Prof. Apratim Guha Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ,
438 Optimizing the R&D and Marketing Interface

Dr. Suj Chandrasekhar Independent Consultant Washington DC ,
439 The Dark Side of ETFs and Index Funds

Dr. Utpal Bhattacharya Indiana University Bloomington ,
440 Online Advertisement : Increased User Participation through Ad Collaboration

Prof. Sourav Saha Indian Institute of Management Kolkata ,
441 Non-Linearity in Deficit-Interest Relationship: A Threshold Analysis

Dr. Atanu Rakshit Washington and Lee University ,
442 Consumer Evaluations of Sale Prices: Role of the Subtraction Principle

Dr. Abhijit Biswas Wayne State University ,
443 Discourse of Institutional Change: Conflicting Narratives of EHR within the Organizational Field

Ms. Vaibhavi Kulkarni Rutgers University New Jersey ,
444 Productivity and Efficiency Dynamics in Indian Banking: An Input Distance Function Approach Incorporating Quality of Inputs and Outputs

Dr. Abhiman Das Reserve Bank of India Mumbai ,
445 Managing Rural Institutional Credit: Lessons from Interlinked Transactions

Dr. Debdatta Pal Indian Institute of Management Indore ,
446 Why are Credit Ratings Coarse?

Dr. Anand Goel Navigant Economics Chicago ,
447 Neuroscience in Marketing: Empirical Evidence of Social and Emotional Meanings Conveyed by Brands

Prof. Luiz Moutinho University of Glasgow ,
448 Determinants of Consumer Support for Mandatory Labelling of Genetically Modified Food in India: A Student Survey

Dr. Dilip Kajale Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Pune ,
449 Modelling Leptokurtic Return Distributions in Commodity Markets

Prof. Arnab Laha Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ,
450 Earnings Management in India: Managers’ Fixation on Operating Profits

Prof. Neerav Nagar Indian Institute of Management Calcutta ,
451 Time Series Forecasting with Applications in Macroeconomics, Energy, and Biomedicine

Dr. Siddharth Arora University of Oxford ,
452 Can Futures Accommodate India’s Farmers?

Dr. Kushankur Dey Independent Food and Agribusiness Consultant Kolkata ,
453 Workload among Public Health Nurses in Kerala: Prevalence and Associated Factors

Dr. Kannan Srinivasan SreeChitraTirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Trivandrum ,
454 Things Change: Category Change, Identity, and Organizations

Dr. Soorjith Illickal Karthikeyan Uppsala University ,
455 Deployment and Development of Senior Managers in Rapid Employee Growth Organizations

Mr. Saurabh Pandya Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ,
456 Exploring and Examining the Process of Job Crafting

Ms.Vijay Lakshmi Singh Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ,
457 Free Trade Agreements and Intra-Industry Trade: The Case of India

Dr.Poornima Varma TERI University New Delhi ,
458 Traffic Flow-based Analytical Model for Fleet and Buffer Sizing at Sea Container Terminals
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459 Social Structure and Social Development in India: Mid-Day Meal for the Poor and Privatised Education for the Non-Poor

Dr. Manisha Garg Indian Institute of Management Kolkata ,
460 Factors for Scaling up of Affordable Health Care Service Organizations

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chandwani Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ,
461 Organizational Behaviour: A Concept in Search of New Dimensions

Dr. Promila Agarwal University of Delhi ,
462 Governance for Premier Business Schools

Prof. Gabriel Hawawini INSEAD ,
463 Market Co-movements and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indian Markets

Prof. Debasish Maitra Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad ,
464 Maritime Inventory Routing Problem with Optional Cargoes: An Application to Outbound Automotive Logistics

Dr. Saurabh Chandra Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad ,
465 Insecurity, Complexity and Uncertainty: Investigation of Psychological Contracts during the Global Economic Crisis

Dr. Samah Shaffakat Lancaster University ,
466 Modelling Contingencies and Resolving Conflicts in a Railway Schedule

Dr. Sundaravalli Narayanaswamy Higher Colleges of Technology Abu Dhabi ,
467 Bayesian Learning and its Applications for Image Processing

Dr. Suman Mitra DhirubhaiAmbani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Gandhinagar ,
468 Forecasting Distribution of Inflation Rates: Functional Autoregressive Approach

Dr. Kausik Chaudhuri Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ,
469 Travelogue of Organic Turmeric: A Case of Inclusive Value Chain

Dr. Niraj Kumar Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneshwar ,
470 Contracting for Initial Acquisition and After-sales Service in the Presence of Lifetime Buy Planning

Dr. Nishant Mishra Erasmus University Rotterdam ,
471 What’s in a Name? Analysis of Airport Brand Name and Slogans

Dr. Uttam Kumar Regmi Purbanchal University Nepal ,
472 Reinvigorating Public Private Partnership in Road Sector: Way Forward for Model Concession Agreements in India

Dr. Satyam Shivam Sundaram Ernst & Young LLP (EY) ,
473 Factors Determining Health Insurance Penetration in India: An Empirical Analysis

Dr. Anindita Chakrabarti Madras School of Economics Chennai ,
474 Lack-of-fit Testing of the Conditional Mean Function in a Class of Markov Multiplicative Error Models

Dr. HiraLal Koul Michigan State University ,
475 Network Structure, Capacity Growth and Control: The Case of China’s Air Traffic System Revisited

Dr. Hans Huber Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon ,
476 Identification, Contribution and Influence in Internationally Diverse Teams: Do Emotions in Initial Team Meetings Matter?

Prof. Prithviraj Chattopadhyay Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong ,
477 Analysis of MILP Techniques for the Pooling Problem

Prof. Santanu S. Dey Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta ,
478 Rethinking Inclusion in Urban Participatory Governance

Dr. BelisaItezerote Marochi Malmo University Sweden ,
479 Global Technology Outlook (GTO) 2013

Dr. C. Mohan IBM Researcher ,
480 Antecedents of E-Government Maturity: Insights from Cross-Country Data

Prof. Satish Krishnan National University Singapore Singapore ,
481 Robust Borrowing from Historical Data with Meta-Analytic-Predictive Mixture Priors

Dr. Satrajit Roychoudhury Novartis Pharmaceutical Company ,
482 To Explain or To Predict?

Prof. Galit Shmueli Indian School of Business Hyderabad ,
483 Asymmetric Influence of Goal Orientation Dissimilarity: A Matter of Perception

Prof. Elizabeth George Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ,
484 CEO Connectedness and Corporate Frauds

Prof. Vikramaditya Khanna University of Michigan Law School Michigan ,
485 Value Co-Creation: Conceptual Dimensions, Measurement, and its Effect on ConsumerSatisfaction

Prof. Kumar Rakesh Ranjan Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ,
486 FDI in Food Retail in India

Prof. Rajiv Lal HarvardBusiness School Boston ,
487 Demystifying Signs and Emotions in Popular Narratives

Dr. Anupam Das Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode ,
488 Internet Governance and India: Interplay between Global and National Perspectives

Ramesh Subramanian Rutgers University New Jersey ,
489 Dynamics of Spectrum Management: Models and Methodologies

Dr. V. Sridhar Sasken Communications Bangalore ,
490 Exploring Sustainable Solutions in the Indian Pharmaceuticals Industry through Reverse Logistics and Thinking

Dr. Sushmita Narayana Aghalaya Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode ,
491 Comprehensive Financial Services for Small Businesses and Low Income Households

Dr. Nachiket Mor,
492 Inequity Aversion in Organizational Hierarchies

Prof. Jayanth Narayanan National University of Singapore Singapore ,
493 Impacts of Retail Brand Personality and Self-congruityon Store Loyalty: The Moderating Role of Gender

Dr. Gopal Das Indian Institute of Management Rohtak ,
494 The Challenges of Opening up India’s Capital Account

Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai,
495 Values and Sustainable Consumption Behaviour: Exploring the Link in the Indian Context

Mr. Rajat Sharma Indian Institute of Management Kashipur ,
496 Emerging Market Bidder Returns and the Choice of Payment Method in M&A: Evidence from India

Ms. Radha Ladkani Indian Institute of Management Kolkata ,
497 Religious Beliefs and Local Government Financing, Investment, and Cash Holding Decisions

Prof. Madhu Veeraraghavan T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal ,
498 Exploring How Different Forms of Reputation Interact in a Global Management Consulting Firm

Dr. Will Harvey University of Cambridge ,
499 Impact of Private Tutoring on Learning Levels: Evidence from India

Dr. Ambrish Dongre Mr. VibhuTewary Centre for Policy Research New Delhi ,
500 Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India

Prof. Pratiksha Baxi Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi ,