The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our study used the case methodology based on the WHO framework for providing...

Infrastructure projects, given their long life, require long term financing. The main sources of long term financings are insurance and pension funds who seek long term investments with low credit risk. However, in India household financial savings are mainly invested in bank deposits. Insurance...

Organizations and Institutions are platforms of learning and growth. It is left for us to choose our path and give and get the best during the time we are associated with it as a stake holder. This paper is a narrative of forty years of association of the author with IIMA-21 years on a full time...

The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our study used the case methodology based on the WHO framework for providing...

Recently, scholars of postcolonial technoscience have suggested an important research direction: understand the mutual influence of the local notions of the colonized on the technoscience of the colonizer, especially the influence of the local notions on the colonizer’s technoscience (reverse...

There is a recent surge in interest in understanding worker participation as a theoretical construct. A major challenge in this regard which scholars identified decades ago, is construct validity. This paper revisits this challenge by reviewing definitions and the multi-level nomological network...

For stationary time series of nominal categorical data or ordinal categorical data (with arbitrary ordered numberings of the categories), autocorrelation does not make much sense. Biswas and Guha (2009) used mutual information as a measure of association and introduced the concept of auto-mutual...

Suppose S is the unknown number of species in a community, and the sample consists of m distinct species, fj species are represented j times in the sample, j = 1; 2; ... ; k. Let f0 be the number of missing species in the sample. Several existing approaches are available for estimating f0 (and...

In recent years, there has been a tremendous continuing attention to- wards the modelling and analysis of longitudinal data, although not much attention is paid to the ordinal categorical data. The problem becomes more complicated if the observation at every longitudinal time point is...

Open innovation is a paradigm that is based on the concept of availability of abundant knowledge outside the boundaries of organizations. This study identified the influence of degree of openness, strength of appropriability regime, and project management maturity on the performance of open...