Working Papers

Value of Information in a Serial Supply Chain under a Nonstationary Demand Process

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341
Author: 
Siddharth Mahajan, Omkar D. Palsule-Desai
Year: 
2011

In this paper, we consider a two level supply chain with a manufacturer supplying the product to a retailer. The retailer faces nonstationary demand that follows an ARIMA (0,1,1) process. In the absence of information sharing, the retailer only conveys his order quantity to the manufacturer, and with information sharing, he also conveys the demand level in each period.

Posterior Consistency of Bayesian Quantitle Regression under a MIS-Specified Likelihood based On Asymmetric Laplace Density

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340
Author: 
Karthik Sriram, R V Ramamoorthi & Pulak Ghosh
Year: 
2011

We provide a theoretical justification for the widely used and yet only empirically verified approach of using Asymmetric Laplace Density (ALD) in Bayesian Quantile Regression.

Effect of QMS and TQM on Productivity Before and After: Empirical Evidence from the Indian Auto Component Industry

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339
Author: 
Ananth Iyer, Haritha Saranga & Sridhar Seshadri
Year: 
2011

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Indian Manufacturing – Strategic and Operational Decisions and Business Performance1

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338
Author: 
Ananth Iyer, Peter Koudal, Haritha Saranga & Sridhar Seshadri
Year: 
2011

India is attracting significant attention as an attractive location for manufacturing industries in recent times. There have been many studies that demonstrate the rapid productivity and technological growth of Indian manufacturing industries post‐ industrial liberalization.

Successful Turnarounds: The Role of Appropriate Entrepreneurial Strategies

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337
Author: 
Mathew J Manimala, Sunita Panicker
Year: 
2011

All organisations are set up with an objective to create value to the society. This necessitates organisations to generate revenues to support all its stakeholders. However, in the rat race to succeed, most organisations are unable to generate revenues for sustainable operations.

Retail Productivity: Concept and Analysis for an Emerging Retail Sector

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336
Author: 
Ashis Mishra
Year: 
2011

In this study, there are three major objectives. Firstly, I intend to conceptualize the construct "Retail Productivity" and develop a model to measure it from the existing literature. Secondly, I want to validate it with appropriate industry feedback to establish its usability in current retail scenario and emerging economies.

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Strategic Sourcing: Trends and Emerging Issues for Research

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335
Author: 
Uma Kausik, B Mahadevan
Year: 
2011

The objective of this paper is to understand the nature of research undertaken in the area of Strategic sourcing using a structured framework and use it as a basis for projecting some future areas for research.  In this paper, the contributions of the literature are analyzed at two levels; research agenda and data and analysis framework.

Status of Corporate Governance Research on India: An Exploratory Study

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334
Author: 
Padmini Srinivasan, Vasanthi Srinivasan
Year: 
2011

This paper examines the status of corporate governance research on Indian in the Indian and International journals between the period 2000- 2010.