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Nirmithi kendra at quilon: an innovative organization
(2010-03-25)Nirmithi Kendra at Quilon is unique in many respects; its concept as well as its management practices are innovative. It was established with the objective of disseminating low cost housing technology. Nirmithi has influenced ... -
Incorporating adivasi ecological knowledge into rural curricula
(2010-03-25)The deterioration of Indiazs forests has been linked directly with the erosion of Adivasi (aboriginal inhabitants of peninsular India) cultures and their vulnerability to outside elements. Education for Adivasis, who ... -
Fix price equilibria in destribution economies
(2010-03-25)In this paper we consider a distribution economy which is dictated by the conditions of the non-substitution theorem for linear economic models of production. Although flexible prices in the consumption section are perfectly ... -
Internationalizing Indian companies: organizational issues and challenges
(2010-03-25)This paper examines issues which arise in designing Indian organizations for global business. Drawing upon 2 years of research with 14 observed Indian cases, the paper discusses organizational designs actually observed and ... -
Study of organisational climate in relation to organisational role stress (ORS) and learned helplessness
(2010-03-25)The purpose of the study is to investigate the relationship between the factors of learned helplessness (LH) and organizational role stress (ORS) to the motivational climate of the organization. The sample comprised of ... -
Indian manufacturing industry: the growth episode of the eighties an empirical study
(2010-03-25)Growth of Indian manufacturing in the 80s was market-driven: policy changes enabled an expansion in output in response to growth in demand. Output growth led to productivity increase which came from material and labor ... -
Arima model for and forecaste on tea production in India
(2010-03-25)The paper explains the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (Box-Jenkins) model in detail, develops an ARIMA model for tea production in India using monthly data for the period Jan. 1979 through July 1991, and ... -
Implications of NAFTA on Indo Canadian trade
(2010-03-25)The changes in the global trading scenario, particularly the emergence of regional trading blocs have far reaching effects on world trade. The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comprising of Canada, ... -
Policy and the problem of policy change: some issues
(2010-03-25)During the eighties there have been stop-start attempts at liberalization and at policy change to give new direction to the economy which had been drifting ever since serious planning had been given up in the mid-sixties ... -
Energy environment dynamics in a medium sized town
(2010-03-25)This study models the pattern of energy consumption in all sectors of the community in a medium-sized town in north India. The environmental impacts of energy consumption in human activities ~ domestic, commercial and ... -
Expected inflation and forecast of growth rate in India
(2010-03-25)Under rapidly changing economic environment in India, economic decision makers at various levels are likely to consider reliable short term forecast of the growth rate of the economy as an important input. It is argued ... -
Dividend decision: a study of managers perceptions
(2010-03-25)In finance literature several theoretical constructs have been proposed to explain the dividend policy of a company. Several empirical studies have been conducted to test these theories. Very few attempts have been made ... -
Towards an orderly Indian market for corporate control
(2010-03-25)As the Indian economy is being modernized through dismantling of rigid controls and greater reliance on the interplay market forces, the Indian industry is likely to witness major restructuring through a spate of mergers ... -
On the job and off the job areas of job satisfaction in relation to job involvement and participation
(2010-03-25)The study examines the effect of job involvement and participation on yon-the-jobz factors and yoff-the-jobz factors of job satisfaction in different groups. Data were collected from a sample of 145 officers and 135 clerical ... -
Quadratic programming applications: a review
(2010-03-24)This paper attempts to review applications of quadratic programming and quadratic integer programming. Major applications have been reported in the following areas: Finance, Agriculture, Economics, Production and Operations, ... -
Lost size model with discrete transportation costs
(2010-03-24)The classical Harris-Wilson inventory model does not explicitly account for the costs incurred in transporting goods from the supplier to the buyer. Either such costs are assumed to be fixed and considered part of the ... -
Study of role stresses in top and middle management
(2010-03-24)In the present study, attempt is made to explore the types of role stresses experienced by top and middle management personnel and to establish the degree of relationship among these role stress variables. 'ORS Scale' ... -
Industrial sickness in India: magnitude and identification criteria
(2010-03-24)The main purpose of this paper is to examine the criteria used by official agencies to identify industrial sickness and highlight the limitations of such identification criteria especially in the context of the nature of ... -
Input-output tables for Kerala methodology and estimates
(2010-03-24)Input coefficient matrix and input transaction matrix for Kerala State are estimated in the present paper fr 50 x 50 commodity sectors for the year 1984-85 at current prices. The sectors and methodology followed here are ... -
Threat bargaining problems with incomplete information
(2010-03-24)This paper is a revised version based on two of my earlier papers Lahiri (1989c) and Lahiri (1990). For useful suggestions and discussions I am grateful to Jim Jordan, T.Parthasarathy, Prakash Chander, Arunava Sen and the ...