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New environmental stimuli, challenges of entrepreneurial firms and growth leaps: evidences from multisector case studies
(2010-09-07)
This paper conceptualises and delineates five challenges – faced by
entrepreneurial firms in responding to the stimuli for growth provided by the
new environment of globalisation, deregulation and liberalisation. It ...
Relations between pitman efficiency and fisher information
(2010-05-31)
Some fundamental relations between the efficacy of a test statistic for any finite
sample and information in that statistic are derived. These results are used to point out the relations
between Pitman efficiency and ...
Project-linkage programme understand the process of evolution and review of pilot project experience
(2010-03-20)
'Project-Linkage', is a new program initiated by Government of Gujarat with an objective of linking rural development with industrial development. Specifically, the programme attempts to build linkages which will facilitate ...
Stress and mental workload: a study in an industrial organisation
(2010-03-23)
The purpose of the study was to i) to identify and determine the differential response profile for three levels in management, on the different measures of stress. ii) to identify and determine the differential response ...
The released soldiers: a study of their predicament
(2010-05-18)
Though literature on military sociology is fast growing, few studies have focused attention on the
psychological social and economic consequences of release from the army for the discharged soldiers. The
subject assumes ...
A survey of linear programming applications in an integrated steel plant
(2010-10-18)
Mathematical programming techniques were used in the steel industry as early as 1958, and many
applications of optimization in steel production have been reported since then. In this survey, we
summarize published ...
Editorial: IFORS OR for development prize
(2010-10-18)
This is the ®rst time that a special section of International Transactions in Operational Research is
devoted to papers related to IFORS OR for Development Prize Competition and I am happy to be the
editor of this special ...
A lot of thin air
(2010-05-12)
AN EXTENSION of Parkinsons Law
relating to work and the time available
for its completion could be applied to
public problem-solving, by formulating
the proposition that, committees or
working groups are appointed to ...
Post-crisis regulation: a contrarian perspectiveve
(2010-01-16)
There have been a number of
commissions and committees
on the financial crisis over the
past year, which have largely
covered the same ground in their
analysis and recommendations
for reform of the financial sector.
The ...
Response to increasing competition by business organizations in India: voluntary retirement schemes and their outcome
(2010-01-16)
Companies in India have responded to the challenges of globalization in various ways. One of the strategies to survive in the market was to reduce the cost by reduction in the number of employees with the help of Voluntary ...