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Bases of involment in work and family contexts
(2010-03-14)
The paper reports on a bi-national study of involvement in work and family contexts. Using heterogeneous samples of managerial personnel in India and Canada, the explored the differential need patterns aroused in work and ...
Two hundred mile economic zone and its implicaitons for fisheries management
(2010-03-13)
This paper deals with a broad overview of the international legal context in which problems of fisheries management have to be viewed. After discussing the weaknesses of the old fisheries regime, the new international ...
Costs of operations in agricultural financing by formal agencies
(2010-03-12)
The purpose of this paper is to first briefly discuss the main elements of costs in agricultural finance operations of formal agencies. Secondly, the sources of high administrative costs are identified. And finally a ...
Note on two - phase method for a class of metric models in individual scaling
(2010-03-12)
This working paper the authors discuss the typical problem in individual scaling viz., finding a common configuration and weights attached to dimensions for each individual from the given interpoint distances or scalar products.
Mobilising rural savings
(2010-03-14)
This paper attempts at examining the ways in which various factors affecting savings influence different aspects of a savings decision. The three aspects of a decision to save were identified as the ability to save, the ...
Improving the effectiveness of public managers: can MBO help?
(2010-03-12)
The purpose of this article is to review some aspects of managerial process as observed in one specific governmental programme.
Linear programming model for optimal water transmission system: a case study for Ahmedabad
(2010-03-12)
This paper presents a methodology for the optimal design of a water transmission system, given a source of supply and demand values for water from various zonal divisions in the city. The Linear Programming Model developed ...
Organizational effectiveness: post-1976 survey of Indian research
(2010-03-12)
The paper examines the concept, determinants, and implications of the effectiveness of complex organizations in the Indian development context. The terms effectiveness, complex organization, and Indian developmental context ...
Participation in decision making: research, results and hypotheses
(2010-03-21)
This report evaluates initial empirical studies on participation as well as the cross-national experience of workers participation in decision making. Though the more empirical studies show the effectiveness of participation, ...
Language translations in advertising and marketing research: need for recognizing measurement differences
(2010-03-14)
This paper reports the findings of an empirical study, designed to test the following four hypotheses: H1 : When consumers rate the same advertisement on two language versions of the same work (adjective), the mean ratings ...