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Building world class educational institutions in India: Challenges and prospects
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007)
Manager as a trainer, a coach, and a mentor
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2005)
This paper argues that for effective development of managers, training programmes are far from sufficient. The major development of managerial capabilities, in fact, takes place not so much as a result of training programmes ...
Lucas-TVS limited: A journey towards manufacturing excellence
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
The case featured in this issue of Vikalpa discusses the journey embarked on by the top management of Lucas-TVS Limited in 1985 to make their firm a world-class manufacturing organization. The company's oldest plant at ...
Where there is no anesthetist - increasing capacity for emergency obstetric care in rural India: An evaluation of a pilot program to train general doctors
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009)
Objective: The lack of anesthesia providers in rural public sector hospitals is a significant barrier to providing emergency obstetric care. In 2006, the state of Gujarat initiated the Life Saving Anesthetic Skills (LSAS) ...
Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited: Retail Franchising in the Healthcare Industry
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2009)
Playing the game of communication: Enhancing skills through a reading of literature
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008)
Managerial communication/conversation in organizations is difficult to capture in its complexities. Even if attempts are made, the outcome is rarely, if ever, natural and spontaneous. How then do we proceed with an ...
Transfer pricing: Conceptual thoughts on the nature of the multinational firm
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006)
This paper deploys Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to elaborate on the shortcomings of 憁ainstream' transfer pricing in multinational firms. Departing from the notion that multinationals increasingly (re-)organize their ...
Understanding India from a Business Perspective: Opportunities and Challenges for MNCs
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006)
Iterative patching and the asymmetric traveling salesman problem
(2006)
Although Branch-and-Bound (BnB) methods are among the most widely used techniques for solving hard problems, it is still a challenge to make these methods smarter. In this paper, we investigate iterative patching, a technique ...
Indian food specialties limited
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
Indian Food Specialties Limited (IFS) introduced tools of food quality management in May 2000 in response to changing market conditions and poor profitability. Spoilage in the production process was very high and the company ...