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Career effectiveness and its determinants
(2010-04-05)Study of careers has become an important aspect in the fast changing organizational context. It has come to be increasingly recognized at present, that career management is the responsibility of both the individual as ... -
Impact of beneficiary participation in rural water supply and sanitation projects: evidence from a comparative study in India
(2010-04-05)This is comparative study of two rural water supply and sanitation projects in Kerala, similar in practically all aspects except that one project incorporated community participation in it and the other did not. The study ... -
Exploiting the potential of the Indian software industry
(2010-04-05)This paper reports the findings of a study designed to understand the process of technology development with special reference to the nature of interaction between software firms and the technology supporting institutions ... -
Development and some application of earth tube heat exchanger in Gujarat
(2010-04-05)This write-up describes the development and some applications of earth tube heat exchangers in Gujarat. Work outlined here was delivered as Nanubhai Amin Memorial Lecture at Electrical Research and Development Association, ... -
Fertilizer plant modelling: a simulation study
(2010-04-05)A Simulation model of a fertilizer plant has been made. It includes activities from production to despatch, from the plant site. Input to the model is daily demand which comes to the plant as despatch instructions. The ... -
Privatization of ports - framework for governmental action
(2010-04-05)Given the delays and congestions at ports, leading to extensive demurrage charges for ships, a lot of attention on improving port productivity through better management systems and infrastructure developments are being ... -
Corporate strategy revisited: towards developing a dynamic framework
(2010-04-05)Corporate strategy has become a major area of research especially in recent years. Strategy research has off-late shifted from the industrial organization paradigm of the 80s to the resources based view with the core ... -
Discovering people potential: organizational constraints and facilitators
(2010-04-05)The paper highlights the importance of discovering people potential for organizations. It argues that constant search for people potential in teams and as individuals has to be an important item on organizational agenda, ... -
Availability and work targets of bulldozers
(2010-04-05)Setting work targets for machines is an important task for engineering managers, especially where they operate large fleets with machines of different makes and ages. Setting uniform work targets is easier but it does not ... -
An analysis of upward influence strategies using speech act theory and face threatening acts
(2010-04-05)This study borrows from sociolinguistic research, specifically speech act theory (SAT), as a way to analyze and explain how UI strategies are performed. We have attempted to provide an explanation for the choice of strategies ... -
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and solar radiation for eighteen stations in India
(2010-04-05)Analytic expressing for solar radiation and ambient temperature are needed by those working on green house design, solar appliances and crop wale relationship. This paper contains such expressions for 18 stations in India. -
Synergy in government policies and global competitiveness of two Indian industries: an empirical study
(2010-04-05)The paper analyzes the role of Government policies in influencing the competitiveness of two Indian industries: Automobile Components and Leather. These industries were chosen due to their good export performance, prima ... -
Need for and possibility of integrating solar desalination with polyhouse in arid areas like Kutch
(2010-04-05)Development of agriculture in arid areas like Kutch is impeded because of widespread salinity and scarcity of good quality water. In view of this and the fact that insolation is high, we examine in this paper the possibility ... -
Indian plague epidemic: unanswered questions and key lessons
(2010-04-05)This paper briefly recapitulates the events during the recent plague epidemic in India with specific focus on suspected pneumonic plague cases in Surat City. The paper discusses three key questions which are as yet unanswered. ... -
Trade related Intellectual Property Right and Seed Industry in India: a review of issues and evidence
(2010-04-05)Any analysis of the Intellectual Property Rights relating to the seed industry in India needs to take congnizance of three inter-related issues: (a) that the current debate on IPRs is part of a larger debate on issues ... -
Political economy of eletric power of India
(2010-04-05)Science the cancellation of the Dabhol Power Project (Dpp), which was being set up by the Enron Corporation and its associates, the debate about electric power in India has come into the public view, raising hopes that ... -
Product planning and models of diffusion-I
(2010-04-05)First purchase sales volume curve of box type solar cooker indicated that the product has passed maturity in Gujarat. We have initiated collaborative redesign work to improve the product. Central element of redesign concept ... -
How managers kindle learning processes
(2010-04-05)Organizational learning occurs when the insights and learnings of individual organization members are transferred to the larger organizational system. This paper examines how senior managers create processes which enable ... -
Revealed preference and utilitarianism in multiattribute choice problems
(2010-04-05)In this paper we have investigated two related issues: (a) representability of a choice function: (b) characterization of a representable choice functions, namely the utilitarian choice function. Probably the most well-known ... -
Classification of pathological stage of prostate cancer patients using personalized splines
(2010-04-05)We propose a penalized splines based method to predict the pathological stage of localized prostate cancer.The improvement is shown to be statistically significant. Receiver operating characteristic curve is drawn and we ...