The Indian retail industry is estimated to be $470 billion. The organized or modern retailing with 6% share stands at $26 billion. It is projected to reach US$ 1.3 trillion by 2018 with the organized retail market estimated to grow at the compounded annual growth rate of 40% and reach US$107...

Vehicle rental providers offer differentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In this research, we study one such service differentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is to hold vehicles for reserve class customers in anticipation of their future arrivals. To consider...

The paper examines the market impact of a unique IPO certification recently introduced in India – mandatory grading of IPOs by a credit rating agency. The grading was expected to improve the IPO pricing efficiency by providing comprehensive issue-related information to the market, especially...

This study examines the purchasing behaviour for environmentally sustainable products using the framework of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. It investigates the determinants of the purchase intention for environmentally sustainable products leading to the purchase behaviour for the same. The...

This paper examines the literature and practice in the field of social entrepreneurship. We specifically examine the diverse organisational forms under which Social Enterprises are undertaken and the dilemma they face when these enterprises grow. The literature is ambigious on what constitutes a...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, with the objective of minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is NP-hard and research has focused on heuristics to solve large...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem where a given set of facilities have to be arranged in a single row so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Sensitivity analysis for the SRFLP has not...

The single row facility layout problem is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper we present path relinking algorithms to solve large sized...

Allowing FDI in multi brand retailing has recently generated tremendous euphoria for some and fear for others. It is based on the notion that it will open floodgates for foreign retailers to invest and will change the retail landscape forever in India. When India is the only country in the world...

This paper focuses on macroeconomic linkages with agriculture. From an extensive literature review the question that emerges is: is there a structural constraint in Indian agriculture or does Indian agriculture work in a system in which as demand rises and prices rise, supply responds. The...