Meeting the prot target is often preferred over maximizing expected prot in uncertain business environments. Research into the newsboy problem with satiation objective started quite early. However, the progress has been slow, particularly in the multi-product setting. We study the general...

Social Enterprise is young, emerging, and a high potential domain attracting thousands of social entrepreneurs in India. Social enterprises, with their dual focus on financial sustainability and social impact, face a set of unique challenges. One of the most important challenge which has a major...

The maternal mortality ratio of Gujarat was 148/100,000 live births in 2009 (SRS, 2011a) and the infant mortality rate 41/1000 live births in 2011 (SRS, 2011b). The government of Gujarat announced Chiranjeevi Yojana in 2005 to reduce maternal and infant mortality. The scheme was pilot tested in...

Online reviews play a critical role in customer's purchase decision making process on the web. The online reviews are often ranked based on user helpfulness votes to minimize the review information overload problem. This paper aims to study the factors that contribute towards helpfulness of...

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...