Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

About: Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is a education organization based out in Ahmedabad, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Population. The organization has 1828 authors who have published 4011 publications receiving 59269 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMA & IIM Ahmedabad.

Reducing stranded assets through early action in the Indian power sector

Abstract: Cost-effective achievement of the Paris Agreement's long-term goals requires the unanimous phase-out of coal power generation by mid-century. However, continued investments in coal power plants will make this transition difficult. India is one of the major countries with significant under construction and planned increase in coal power capacity. To ascertain the likelihood and consequences of the continued expansion of coal power for India's future mitigation options, we use harmonised scenario results from national and global models along with projections from various government reports. Both these approaches estimate that coal capacity is expected to increase until 2030, along with rapid developments in wind and solar power. However, coal capacity stranding of the order of 133-237 GW needs to occur after 2030 if India were to pursue an ambitious climate policy in line with a well-below 2°C target. Earlier policy strengthening starting after 2020 can reduce stranded assets (14-159 GW) but brings with it political economy and renewable expansion challenges. We conclude that a policy limiting coal plants to those under construction combined with higher solar targets could be politically feasible, prevent significant stranded capacity, and allow higher mitigation ambition in the future.

Does the Board Size Really Matter? An Empirical Investigation on the Indian Banking Sector

Abstract: The present study is a maiden attempt in accessing the relationship between board size and performance of banks in context of India. The study also aimed at analyzing the effect of other corporate governance factors on the performance. While many factors have been identified as the Corporate Governance components, only three of them were included for the study. Further the firm performance variables were taken as controlling variables. Indeed studies have proved that the firm value is also based on these performing factors. The operationalisation of the two ratios Market-to-Book ratio and Tobin's Q ratio in the present study might trigger its validity. The absence of effect of board size on performance of bank in the Indian context as revealed in the present study is a challenge for the researchers in this area.

Health information systems, decentralisation and democratic accountability

Abstract: While decentralisation is a much-used term in development discourse, there is lack of clarity about how much autonomy should be granted to local agencies in programme implementation. This is particularly the case in the health sector in developing countries where decentralisation has resulted in the primary health centre (PHC) being identified as the focal point for the delivery of basic health services to rural citizens. An important element of primary healthcare reform has been the implementation of health information systems (HIS). These systems primarily account for monies spent to higher levels of administration and funding bodies rather than account for primary healthcare provision to citizens. In this article, we focus on various emergent processes of change that are occurring under the auspices of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in India to strengthen the interface between the PHC and the community. We present a case study of Gumballi PHC in Karnataka, South India. Our findings reveal ways in which these new processes can be supported by conceptualising the HIS as more than a mere reporting tool.

Rough Information Set and Its Applications in Decision Making

Abstract: The decision making in the real world is inevitably characterized with vagueness, and imprecision due to incomplete knowledge. To this end, we combine the information set with the rough set theory to represent both the vagueness and imprecision at the same time. We term the proposed structure as rough information set that has information sets based on fuzzy equivalence relations as its building blocks. The usefulness of the proposed structure is demonstrated through a case study in credit scoring analysis, and a biometrics application on knuckle-based recognition.

Waterfall Versus Sprinkler Product Launch Strategy: Influencing the Herd†

Abstract: A seller decides the price and sequence in which a product of unknown value is introduced to consumers. Consumers inspect the product before consumption and observe past prices and sales. Consumption at a high price is informative for later consumers as it indicates that the product is likely to be of high value. I show that on an average prices decrease over time. However, expected revenue on an average rises over time. For a high enough discount factor, I find that for extreme beliefs the firm introduces the product to all consumers but for intermediate values the product is introduced only to one consumer.