Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

About: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a education organization based out in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Emerging markets & Context (language use). The organization has 491 authors who have published 1254 publications receiving 23853 citations. The organization is also known as: IIMB.

Indian elementary education at the crossroads: way forward

Abstract: The District Primary Education Programme launched by the Government of India put in place unique management structures and processes. The programme coverage was limited to the primary level of education only, that is, grades 1–4 in some states and grades 1–5 in other states. As this programme period was drawing to a close, the Government was launching into an even more ambitious programme of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan that was to be implemented in all districts of all states in India and its coverage was from grades 1–8. An assessment of management structures and processes in three southern states of India was taken to arrive at certain lessons that would be extremely useful for the successful implementation of future programmes in elementary education.

The Institutional Dynamics Perspective of ICT for Health Initiatives in India

Abstract: As there has been a considerable investment in ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives, policymakers, practitioners and academics are calling for a more comprehensive and meaningful assessment of the impact of such initiatives. While the impact assessment of ICT4D can be carried out from multiple perspectives, the institutional lens is opportune in examining the softer aspects of the impact such as the behavioural, cultural, and social dimensions. ICT4D interventions juxtapose two institutional logics, that of designer and of the users, which may or may not align with each other. The impact of the initiative depends on how the interplay between the logics unfolds. We exemplify the importance of institutional context in impact assessment of ICT4D initiatives by examining the interplay of the institutional logics in the healthcare system. We conceptualise healthcare system in terms of the logic of choice, perpetuated by the ICT for health initiative, and the logic of care which is embedded in the core of the health system. The interaction between the two logics, in turn, determines how the intervention evolves. We arrive at a framework outlining the tensions arising from the interplay of the logic of choice and logic of care in the healthcare system when an ICT4D intervention is introduced.

A Fuzzy-Graph-Based Approach to the Determination of Interestingness of Association Rules

Abstract: 'Interestingness' measures are used to rank rules according to the 'interest' a particular rule is expected to evoke in a user. In this paper, we introduce an aspect of interestingness called 'item-relatedness' to determine interestingness of item-pairs occurring in association rules. We elucidate and quantify three different types of item-relatedness. Relationships corresponding to item-relatedness proposed by us are shown to be captured by paths in a 'fuzzy taxonomy' (an extension of the concept hierarchy tree). We then combine these measures of item-relatedness to arrive at a total-relatedness measure. We finally demonstrate the efficacy of this total measure on a sample taxonomy.

Pricing and inventory management during new product introduction when shortage creates hype

Abstract: In this study, we analyze the joint pricing and inventory management during new product introduction when product shortage creates additional demand due to hype. We develop a two-period model in which a firm launches its product at the beginning of the first period, before it observes sales in the two periods. The product is successful with an exogenous probability, or unsuccessful with the complementary probability. The hype in the second period is observed only when the product is successful. The firm learns the actual status of the product only after observing the first-period demand. The firm must decide the stocking level and price of the product jointly at the beginning of each of the two periods. In this article, we derive some structural properties of the optimal prices and inventory levels, and show that (i) firms do not always exploit hype, (ii) firms do not always increase the price of a successful product in the second period, (iii) firms may price out an unsuccessful product in the first period if the success probability is above a threshold, and (iv) such a threshold probability is decreasing in the first-period market potential of the successful product. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 62: 304–320, 2015