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Mean variance optimality criteria for discounted Markov decision processes
(2010-03-22)The criteria of maximizing expected rewards has been widely used in Markov decision processes following Howard [2]. Recently considerations related to higher moments of rewards have also been incorporated by Jaquette [4] ... -
Strategic planning practices of small scale enterprises
(2010-03-22)Although there is some evidence to suggest that small scale enterprises also make strategic plans, there is still a lot of suspicion about its usefulness for small firms. The basic question is that given their level of ... -
Sales incentive decisions within an attribution theory framework
(2010-03-22)Sales incentives are frequently used by marketers to launch new products or boost the sale of existing products. Two of the major decisions concerning the use of sales incentive are what size and what form of incentive to ... -
Control of shifting cultivation: the need for an integrative approach and systematic appraisal
(2010-03-22)The paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing schemes for control of shifting cultivation. Necessary and sufficient conditions relating to per capita income, its growth rate, internal rate of return, availability ... -
Inter - industry linkages of housing investment in India
(2010-03-22)The optimal pattern of scarce national resources involving housing vis-a-vis other sectors of the economy can be determined only after a comparative evaluation of the strength of inter-sectoral linkages of investment in ... -
Seed replacement practices
(2010-03-22)One important reason for low demand for quality seeds is the reportedly low seed replacement rate especially in case of non-hybrids. To investigate the reasons for such practices followed by the farmers is the main objective ... -
Distributive bias of new food grain technologies and flow of credit
(2010-03-22)The paper develops a model for analyzing flow of rural credit between food grain and non-food grain sectors. It analysis the effect of alternative changes in income distribution arising out of technological changes in ... -
Performance of institutional finance for agricultural development
(2010-03-22)This paper analyses the performance of rural institutional finance system and based on that draw implication for improving this performance. Section II provides a conceptualization of performance criteria. Section III ... -
Job involvement sense of participation and job satisfaction: a study in banking industry
(2010-03-22)The purpose of the study was to explore the possible effect of job involvement and sense of participation on job satisfaction of two categories of bank employees. The sample consisted of 250 officers and 250 clerical cadre ... -
Pedagogy of behaviour simulation
(2010-03-22)The paper proposes a three-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding the pedagogical methods. It discusses the characteristics of behaviour simulation and the relevant concepts of learning for these. Various ... -
Causality between money and price level in India revisited
(2010-03-22)In this paper we have reexamind the issue of causality between money and price level in India and have used only granger's test for this purpose. we have found that there exists a unidirectional causality running from M1 ... -
Implications of changes in the holding period and other parameters on systematic risk and performance of a security
(2010-03-22)The Capital Asset Pricing Model is a single period model which specifies a linear relationship between return on an asset and return on the entire market. The model is widely used in literature as if a portfolio of securities ... -
Social and professional context of growth women as home makers and managers
(2010-03-22)This paper explores the processes of growth of women in both the family and work settings and their role as home-makers and managers. From the family, women acquire male and female role models. They also acquire concept ... -
Organization development in social development organizations
(2010-03-22)Social Development Organizations (SDOs) have an important role to play in the social and economic development of the people particularly in developing countries following capitalist/mixed economy systems. However, many ... -
Industrial conflict: trends and determinants
(2010-03-21)This study is to assess the growth of industrial conflict during the various phases of economic development from 1921 to 1984, and to identify the economic and institutional factors which could have influenced conflict ... -
Founder culture in organizations its impact on organizational growth, dynamism and innovativeness
(2010-03-21)Organizational culture has recently emerged as one of the prominent focuses of organization research. This is partly because of the disillusionment with the research on the more ‘objective’ phenomena such as structure and ... -
Livestock component of farming systems research
(2010-03-21)Farming systems research is an innovative approach to address the problems of resource poor farmers in less developed countries. FSR stemmed largely from the pioneering work of Collinson and that of Norman. The primary ... -
Organisational behaviour issues for managers and systems analysis
(2010-03-21)Present study is an attempt to explore the interrelationship between job satisfaction areas and different factors of role stresses in EDP managers and system analysts from Public and Private computer orgnaisations. 'ORS ... -
Social movements: an organization theory perspective
(2010-03-21)The paper first reviews the available literature on social movements (SM). Following emerge: (1) Classical literautre on SMs have missed out or tended to ignore the organizational aspects of SMs (Section I) (2) The ... -
Interprovincial variation in economic growth in Canada
(2010-03-21)In the present paper, the dynamic aspects of regional variations in the economic growth are examined. Over the three decades of the fifties, sixties and seventies, the growth pattern in different provinces of Canada has ...