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A study on Customer Expectation Management in Expediency Stores Format in Organized Retail Stores in Surat City

In today’s competitive environment only the best survives. To survive and grow, the retailers need to strategize their operations to ensure customer delight, repeat purchases and increase in profitability. The key to achieve this objective is to give exemplary shopping experience and convert the customer from browser to a spender and to a big spender. Amenity excellence is a measure of the extent to which a delivered amenity meets the customer expectations.

Relationship between market value and book value of Major Indian Information Technology firms under pre and post IFRS

Many researches have been conducted on the effect of adoption of IFRS on value relevance of firms e.g. Mohd Halim and Zulkifli [2008], Ahmed and Goodwin [2006], Harris and Muller [1999], Bartov et al. [2005], Lin and Chen [2005], Horton and Serafeim [2006], Schiebel [2006], Niskanen et al. [2000] and Mohd Kadri et al. [2008]. Even though they have employed similar model [Ohlson, 1995], their results were not conclusive. In India, the effect of adoption of IFRS on value relevance of accounting numbers is still not known yet as the IFRS is not fully applicable.

Role of RRBS in Financial Inclusion Empirical Evidence from RRBS in Gujarat

Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India have been established to spread the banking amongst rural poor, based on the recommendation of various expert committees. RRBs have special role to play in spread of banking, now known as financial inclusion, in rural and semi urban areas to include the rural mass in banking network and thereby help them the rural poor, small and marginal farmers, artisans, agricultural labors, and even small entrepreneurs.

SBI and its Associate’s Banks in India: Comparative Study of Management Efficiency Using Self Developed Ratio Score Rank Index

The success of any business depends on the management’s efficiency. Consequently to compare management efficiency of last five years starting from 2010 to 2014 in SBI and its Associates Banks in India. Management efficiency ratios have been considered. Data has been analyzed with the consideration of management efficiency ratios. Comparison has been done on the bases of self developed Ratio Score Rank Index.

Determinants of Automobile Brand Choice

Automotive industry plays a vital role in country’s economic and industrial development. It is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. De-licensing in 1991 and subsequent 100% FDI in the sector has put the Indian automobile industry on a new growth trajectory, which attracted foreign auto giants to set up their production facilities in the country to take advantage of the various benefits it offers. Large middle class population, growing earning power and strong technological capability have been boosting automobile demand for the past few years.

The Concepts of Human Rights in the Vedas

Many Western scholars with their colonial and missionary ambitions claim that the concept of human rights is a Western concept but they are not absolutely right. It is also a fact that all human right principles have not western roots. These intellectuals have not taken into account the full development that took place prior to the Renaissance and colonial period. The universality of human rights is based on the universal values prevalent in all the major civilizations of the world.

E-Commerce : growth and prospects in India

The E-Commerce Industry is growing rapidly every year with many savvy Indians taking to online shopping to research products, compare prices & to shop online. Many brands, retailers & entrepreneurs have understood the benefits of leveraging E-Commerce to provide access to their products across the country. The objective of this project is to get enlightened about E-Commerce- Its meaning, objective, scope and limitations also its impact.

MOTHERHOOD ON THE MARGIN : A STUDY OF MAHASWETA DEVI’S MOTHER OF 1084 AND BAYEN

A woman passes through many phases in her life. She is a daughter, sister, wife, and mother. Motherhood is a blessing, a way of life. It permits a woman to express her total self with tender feelings. But life is not fair arithmetic, and motherhood is not a blessing for some women in a patriarchal society. They are under the myth that motherhood is the sphere essentially fated for women. Women are subaltern sexes who are supposed to be reproducers of mankind- considered to be child bearers and rearers. But patriarchy misuses this role as an instrument to subordinate women as a whole.

Dalit Novel : A Comparative Study of The Stepchild and Untouchable

In recent years, there has been a spurt in Dalit literature in India that attempts to bring to the foreground the experiences of discriminations, poverty and violence being faced by the Dalit community. This unprecedented development is a part of a growing need of the Dalits themselves to articulate their experiences which have for long been silenced and marginalized as unliterary. The present research paper is a comparative assessment of two prominent works- Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Joseph Macwan’s The Stepchild.

Cloning the Metagenome to Access the Biodiversity of Unculturable Bacteria

Metagenomics constitutes the sequence based analysis of the collective microbial genomes (microbiome) in a particular environment. It provides culture independent access to the gene pool of whole microbial community. The variety of laboratory culturing methods when fail to culture the unculturable bacteria, tools of metagenomics are applied to reveal their existence in a given environment. Metagenomics tools deal mainly with the direct isolation of genetic material from a defined ecological habitat (soil or marine) and cloning of the complete genome of the entire microbial population.