I feel privileged to present the online version of the select research papers presented in the First PAN IIT International Management Conference – 2018, organised by the Department of Management Studies, IIT Roorkee in association with all IITs in India offering Management education. The need...

The aim of this paper which has a direct impact on the development of rural people. Another objective is to identify interrelationships among them along with their driver and dependence power, with special reference to India, where government policies identified have a special role to play. A...

Environmentalism has become an important social and corporate issue during the twenty-first century. Consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious and are demanding green products from manufacturers. This has resulted in the emergence of new concepts like green marketing and green...

Information technology (IT) enablement helps in improving the agri-based Indian economy by focusing on supply-chain systems. This article aims at finding out the enablers of e-Applications in the Indian agri-food supply chain. Enablers were identified using secondary sources. These enablers were...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the drivers of customer participation for value co-creation among bottom of the pyramid (BOP) customers. In addition, the difference, if exists, between the perception of customer and marketers belongs to this segment about the drivers of...

This paper considers the learning/aging effect in an n job single machine scheduling problem with common due date. The objective is to determine the optimal common due date and the optimal sequence of jobs that minimizes a cost function in the presence of learning/aging effect. The cost function...

In this paper, we propose a new load distribution strategy called ‘send-and-receive’ for scheduling divisible loads, in a linear network of processors with communication delay. This strategy is designed to optimally utilize the network resources and thereby minimizes the processing time of...