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Large lift plants - Performance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-12-01)Large lift irrigation plants (LIPs) are a development in parts of Gujarat (India). These are commonly sited on old tanks, some on intermittent streams and canals. Water is lifted to a high point of command through a riser ... -
Law, liberalisation and globalisation in India: just a game of chance?
(2010-03-31)This paper is a part of a larger research on the working of business law in India in the changing context of globalisation and liberalisation. The macro theme requires details of the changes in law, economy and business ... -
Leaders in action: some illustrations and inferences
(2010-03-26)Cases of six outstanding organizational helmsmen who had successfully built up and nurtured enduring organizations form the leit-motif of this essay. These organizations are: the Oberoi chain of hotels built up to dizzying ... -
Leadership and creativity in the Indian R&D laboratories: examining the role of autonomous motivation, psychological capital and justice perceptions
(2013-11-26)The present study investigates the association between R&D-specific leadership approach developed in the Indian context using a combination of qualitative and quantitative data analyses, employee autonomous motivation, ... -
Leadership and human resource management styles of senior and top level managers
(2010-03-15)This paper reports in detail a Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) developed to measure the Benevolent, Critical and Developmental styles of manages. This questionnaire has two forms; one for self-assessment and the ... -
Leadership and management in formal work organizations and educational institutions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-11-01)This paper examines 1) the definition and concept of leadership as reflected in educational institutions and formal organizations 2) patterns and models of leadership in the western indian context, 3) the resultant ... -
Leadership and management of public sector undertakings in an emerging economy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-31)Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) contribute significantly to the growth and economic development of any country. This study explores the key managerial challenges faced by the leaders and managers of public sector ... -
Leadership in Family Owned Organizations
(2012-10-11)The main focus of the study is on the role of entrepreneurs, progenitors, patriarchs and leaders in the family owned organizations. The family ownership and membership, being the family history relational dynamics, familial ... -
Leadership styles and influence tactics
(2010-01-16)Two hundred nine MBA (Masters in Business Administration) students of a management institute rated their leadership styles and influence tactics as a part of their classroom exercise. The findings indicated that they ... -
Learning about the task: first steps in relating the organisation and environment in community service organisations
(2010-03-14)The management of community service organizations (CSO) needs to be concerned with managing the operating system and relating the system to its environment. Many factors in the CSO's internal environment might inhibit it ... -
Learning by blundering around some experiences in international management
(2010-03-28)Based upon the experiences of American Companies operating abroad the paper focuses on the issue of learning in management. It shows that costly mistakes can be avoided by looking at the blunders committed by others. It ... -
Learning by doing: Technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)This paper present an indepth case study of technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm in the tractor industry and highlights the complexities involved as a result of the interaction of a number of factors both ... -
Learning class description from examples using a reference class
(2010-03-23)An important problem of artificial intelligence is learning class description from pre-classified examples. The emphasis of some of the important learning systems such as ID3, INDUCE and CART is to discriminate each class ... -
Learning decision models with multinomial logit model through pair-wise preferences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Our goal is to study the behavioral process of a decision maker (DM) that leads to his choice. To this end, we combine the established models of discrete choice with the recent algorithmic advances in the emerging field ... -
Learning from Antyodaya: some leassons for IRDP
(2010-03-13)The Antyodaya programme was launched by the Rajasthan government to improve the socio economic well being of the 'last man' in 1977. Benefits were to be first extended to the poorest families in all of the villages in the ... -
Learning of utilitarian decision model through preferences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02)Our goal is to study a decision maker (DM)’s behavioral process that leads to his/her choice. We formalize the notion of a DM who is striving to make the best choice among the various alternatives. Concretely, we develop ... -
Learning relationships among classes specified by examples
(2010-03-29)Learning by examples is a commonly used method of knowledge acquisition in expert systems. The learning examples are past cases whose classification is known. When the number of classes is high, learning relationships ... -
Lease accounting practies in India
(2010-07-27)Accounting for leases is a debatable subject in spite of variety of standards having been issued by the professional accounting bodies all over the world. Two important issues relate to the treatment of lease rentals and ... -
Lease Evaluation-yet Again
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Leasing industry in India: structure and prospects
(2010-03-23)The aim of this paper is to critically evaluate the structure and prospects of the leasing industry in India. Financial data of 29 selected leasing companies are analyzed to formulate the strategic groups of the leasing ...