Faculty Publications (Bibliographic): Recent submissions

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    • Asoka Spintex 

      Gupta P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999)
      The case featured in this issue discusses the turnaround of Asoka Spintex from an ailing company in 1987 to a growing company in the year 1997. What strategies should Anang Lalbhai adopt for the long-term survival of the ...

    • Lucas-TVS limited: A journey towards manufacturing excellence 

      Sethuraman K.; Tirupati D. (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 ...

    • Organizational decline and turnaround management: A contingency framework 

      Maheshwari S.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      This study examines the reasons for organizational decline and suggests context-specific turnaround process. The decline is primarily an outcome of inaction of managers and inappropriate actions of managers in response to ...

    • Effective retail promotion management: Use of point of sales information resources 

      Banerjee A.; Banerjee B. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      The increasing availability of customers' transaction level data at the point of sale (POS) in electronic form in various stores in India is opening up important arenas in marketing analytics that can enhance business ...

    • Developing Organizational Leadership 

      Singh S.P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      In this review article, Sampat P Singh reviews two books on leadership title "Can Organizations Develop Leaders?" and "The Leaders' Shadow." He evaluates the progress made in defining, understanding, and developing leadership. ...

    • Building NGO-corporate partnership: An alternative perspective 

      Mote V.L. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000)
      In its Perspectives section, Vikalpa (Vol 25, No 2, April-June 2000) had published the views of Anil Bhatt on the theme "Building NGO-Corporate Partnership for Social Development.*" In this issue, V L Mote, while agreeing ...

    • Societal beliefs, organizational climate, and managers' self-perceptions 

      Sinha J.B.P.; Gupta P.; Singh S.; Srinivas E.S.; Vijaykumar V.S.R. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      This study examines how traditional societal beliefs affect organizational climate, and how the two, independently or jointly, shape managers' self-perceptions. It also investigates the impact of the levels of development ...

    • Creative restructuring 

      Khandwalla P.N. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      In the context of liberalization of globalization of economy, the changes required in the functioning of corporates need to be vast. Corporate restructuring has become an important means for achieving such changes in India ...

    • Beliefs, Values, and Ethics 

      Singh S.P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      Ethics has been a perennial human problem: the gap between action based on reality 慳s it is' and ideals 慳s it ought to be.' Sometimes, the gap has been more and sometimes less, It has also differed with cultural differences. ...

    • Amtrex hitachi appliances limited: Competing for the future 

      Sridharan A.; Ravichandran N. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001)
      The case featured in this issue presents the history and managerial initiatives of a rapidly growing organization in the consumer durable industry. The industry is characterized by the presence of several competing ...

    • Indian food specialties limited 

      Deodhar S.Y.; Tirupati D. (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 ...

    • Assessing Administrative Reform in India 

      Mathur K.; Mathur N. (Springer, 2017)
      This paper outlines trends in efforts at administrative reform in India. It spans the shift of ideological paradigm of the Indian political economy. While the pre-1991 period was marked by a waning Statism, structural ...

    • Deciding where to buy: Store choice behaviour of Indian shoppers 

      Sinha P.K.; Banerjee A.; Uniyal D.P. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      Store choice is a decision that a shopper is fairly involved in. It is important for a store to understand this behaviour for developing marketing strategies to attract and keep its clientele. It is found that shoppers ...

    • BHP limited: Risk management strategy 

      Sinha S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      BHP Limited, a global natural resource company based in Australia, has traditionally hedged its market price risks with derivatives. Based on the analysis of a 'Cash Flow at Risk' model, which exploits the diversification ...

    • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) 

      Teltumbde A.; Tripathy A.; Sahu A.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) embarked upon a major change initiative towards the end of 1996. It planned an enterprise-wide integration through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The objectives were to ...

    • New trends in sensitivity training in organizations 

      Parikh I.J.; Jeyavelu S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2002)
      Sensitivity Training (ST) is a process through which an individual explores the journey of human existence to ask some basic questions about life, relationships, interface across many roles, and purpose of one's own life. ...

    • Implementation of vrs in India 

      Maheshwari S.K.; Kulkarni V. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
      In today's Indian business environment, inter-organization rivalry has become intense. Most of the organizations in the erstwhile protected business environment had focused on production volumes, not necessarily on ...

    • Shopping orientation in the evolving Indian market 

      Sinha P.K. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
      Studies on shoppers in India have largely been limited to their time and money spending pattern, demographic profile, and preferences for a particular format. It has been found in the studies in other countries that shoppers ...

    • The kinder cut: A macro communication strategy for delivering news of job termination 

      Monippally M.M. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
      A Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) ought to be good news for employees; it gives them the freedom to retire early with a substantial sum of money, tax free, as compensation. But, in many Indian companies, VRS is retrenchment ...

    • From a Manager to a Leader: Bridging a Gulf or Jumping a Chasm? 

      Manikutty S. (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003)
      This paper argues that the transition from being a manager to becoming a leader is more like jumping a chasm than walking smoothly on a bridge over a gulf. Traditional methods of management education, training, and mentoring ...