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Organizational decline and turnaround management: empirical study of a government owned automobile company
(2010-01-16)Performance of an organization is an outcome of its series of action choices in response to the changes in business environment or independently. Such choices are influenced by the leadership characteristics, organizational ... -
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 ... -
Organizational Goals as Determinants of Lower Management Job Satisfaction
(2012-09-27)Questionnaire based data from 47 Indian corporations indicated interesting casual linkage between the goals of top management and the level of job satisfaction of the relatively lower level of management various job factors. ... -
Organizational practices and employee's performance: a case of Canadian Textile Industry
(2010-04-06)This study undertakes empirical explanation of inter-firm variations in employee s productivity by a set of organizational factors on the basis of firm level survey data drawn from the Canadian textile industry. Organizational ... -
Organizational Transformation in India: Developing a Typology
(2013-11-25)Organizational transformation, which is frequently credited with turning around the fortunes of many organizations, has remained an underrated concept in India. This paper is an attempt to study the transformations that ... -
Organizations and men and women managers: approaches and perspectives in training
(2011-09-02)The paper "Organizations and Men & Women Managers: Approaches and Perspective in Training" presents the existing models and approaches in training which are brought to the third world countries. For example, four such ... -
Organizations of the future
(2010-01-16)The paper " The Organizations of the Future " explores the movement of organizations in India the past to the organization of the future. The last five decades Indian organizations have moved from- 1. An ancient civilization ... -
Organizations of the future: a strategic organization perspective
(2010-03-14)In the light of research on organizational design, the paper outlines an effective design for the strategic organizations of developing societies. Strategic organizations are defined as those organizations with the mission ... -
Organized Retailing of Horticultural Commodities
(2013-11-25)Owing to rapid urbanization and changing consumption patterns, more and more retailers are trying to put their best efforts to discover new avenues of success when it comes to the sales of horticultural commodities. There ... -
Organizing the Un-Organized? The Rise, Recession, and Revival of the Indian Diamond Industry
(2011-05-26)The Indian diamond industry thrives in an atmosphere of secrecy and informality. However, it resembles a close-knit community composed of thousands of small, medium and large sized CPD (cut and polished diamonds) units and ... -
Orientation towards work and school: cultural context and intervention strategies
(2010-03-14)Cultural factors influence person's orientation towards work and school. Four categories distinguishing pre-industrial from industrial cultures are: 1. Permanence of roles (affiliation versus inclusion, collaboration versus ... -
Orlovsky solution for acyclic comparison functions
(2009-12-14)n this paper we characterise the Orlovsky solution and what we refer to as the family of threshold solutions. Our family of threshold solutions are somewhat larger than the family of solutions which select only those ... -
Overcoming Managerial Challenges to Realize Growth Spurts: Insights from Cases of Three Enterprises
(2009-08-07)Organizations face several managerial challenges during their growth period. Growth spurts are realized when organizations overcome these challenges. Though the literature is full of studies on the enterprise growth, the ... -
Overestimation in the Growth Rates of National Income in Recent Years? – an analyses based on extending GDP04-05 through other indicators of output
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Quarterly indices of output like those of Industrial Production, other measures of production like net sales, exports, of companies for which data is available, besides proxies like credit to the sector, and indices of ... -
Overnight Stock Returns and Time-Varying Correlations
(2009-09-02)Time-varying correlation of the stock market returns across countries in the context of international investments has been well researched in the literature in last few years. It has also been recognized that there is ... -
An overview of pesticides industry and marketing environment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-07-01)Pesticides are broadly classified into 5 major groups: 1) Insecticides, 2) Fungicides, 3) Herbicides, 4) Rodenticides, and 5) Fumigants. The constitutions of this industry includes technical grade material manufacturers, ... -
Overview of pesticides industry in Inida
(2010-03-23)This paper attempts to analyse the growth of the production of pesticides over a time and changes in the structure of the product mix, product dominance and flow of materials. The profile of this industry including the ... -
An overview of the trucking sector in india: Significance and structure
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-23)The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the trucking sector. It describes the significance of road transport and the structure of the trucking industry. It also explores the causes and consequences of the ... -
Ownership structure and internationalization of Indian firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)This paper examines the relationship between ownership structure and the firm internationalization, in a longitudinal sample of Indian firms. Drawing from principal-principal (PP) agency theory and the resource-based view ... -
Ownership trends in corporate India 2001 – 2011 evidence and implications
(2013-11-26)The first decade of the new millennium saw dramatic changes in the ownership patterns in major listed corporations in India. Two developments were striking: promoters especially in the domestic private sector bolstered ...