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Recharging Indian bureaucracy
(2009-12-14)Failure of bureaucracy has prompted many efforts at reforming it. But administrative reform has failed in many developing countries, including India, for a variety of reasons. The costs of the bureaucracy s malfunctioning ... -
Challenges of Indian organization in the twenty first century
(2009-12-14)This paper was explored and identified organizational realities through a process of discussion and the dialogues with CEO s employees across various levels of hierarchy of the organization. This paper has identified five ... -
Impact of exchange rate pass-through and volatility on Indian foreign trade
(2009-12-14)The exchange rate Pass-through land exchange rate volatility, are two important issues that determine the effectiveness of the exchange rate depreciation in achieving the desired trade balance. The aggregate analysis of ... -
Management of organizational change
(2009-12-14)Management of change in organizations has been one of the most important concerns of professionals in the recent times. A manager, an administrator or a consultant, who wishes to understand the dynamics of change, is most ... -
Operating characteristics of empty solar cooker under climatic conditions of Ahmedabad
(2009-12-14)In this report we present some of the operating characteristics of an empty box solar cooker, under climatic conditions of Ahmedabad. Simulations indicate that cooker will perform satisfactorily during only six out of ... -
Community at the core: a study of sarvodaya nano finance limited
(2009-12-14)This paper traces the evolution of sarvodaya nano finance limited SNFL. As the part of the study we have examine the unique legel structure set up for the fedrating the small SGG's that were widely spread out in the areas ... -
Paradigms of organizational leadership self organized criticality: the avalanche effect
(2009-12-14)This paper proposes to state some new paradigms of Organizational Leadership which will facilitate the leaders a well as collective leadership of senior managers to respond to the flux and dramatic shifts occurring within ... -
Disputes and dispute resolution: the effect of union density on employee intention to quite-the Indian scenario
(2009-12-12)In India, historically, the trade unions have played the role of an agent of social and economic changes, protecting and enhancing the interest of its member and trying so squeeze more and more out of managements through ... -
Privatisation in China: softly, softly does it
(2009-12-12)This paper examines China s record of privatisation to see whether it accords with popular perceptions. The record shows that China has been proceeded cautiously in its privatisation efforts. It has privatised that is, ... -
Examination of the credit channel of monetary transmission in India : results from response of commercial bank' balance sheet to a monetary policy stock
(2009-12-12)In this study I present some evidence on the credit channel of monetary transmission in India. Using the set up of Bernanke and Blinder (1992) it is found that loans, investments and deposits of commercial banking system ... -
A Re-look at the long-run stability of the money multiplier in India
(2009-12-12)To check the stability of the money multiplier, the aggregate relationship between a measure of money stock and reserve money is examined. Section II, after a brief literature review, methodology followed in the study is ... -
Finite horizon inventory model: an operational framework
(2009-12-12)We paper present a simulation based decision support system to decide the inventory ordering policy in the context of a single commodity, multi pack, and finite horizon situation. The model addresses the decision choice ... -
Estimating the willingness to pay for veterinary services in India: a methodology
(2009-12-12)Public provision of agricultural support services has been an important component of agricultural development strategy in India. A number of these services have been delivered to the farmers for free or with substantial ... -
Using transaction utility approach for retail format decision
(2009-12-12)Transaction utility theory was propounded by Thaler to explain that the value derived by a customer from an exchange consists of two driveras : Acquisition Utilities and Transaction utilities. Acquisition utility represents ... -
Women in management - a movement from fifties to the next millennium
(2009-12-12)This paper provides a panoramic view of Indian Women in Management from the 1950 s to the end of the present century. The paper then looks at new opportunities for women mangers in the next mllennium. Women in Management ... -
Paradigms of Gender Issues in Indian Organizations
(2009-12-12)This paper is based on the discussions with women, men and senior managers of ten organisations. The scope of this paper is to: 1. To assess how women experience their entry in various organisation. 2. How women visualise ... -
Axiomatic characterization of some extensions
(2009-12-12)The general problem we are interested in this paper is of the following variety. We are given a finite universal set and a linear ordering on it. What is the minimal axiomatic characterization of a particular extension of ... -
Strategies for improving Indian railways' market share of port based coal traffic: a diagnostic study
(2009-12-12)India is a vast country. After its independence in 1947, it steadily lost its position in international trade. With the beginning of economic liberalization in 1991, it has taken new initiatives in integrating itself with ... -
New congruence axiom and transitive rational choice
(2009-12-12)Rationality in choice theory has been an abiding concern of decision theorists. A rationality postulate of considerable significance in the literature is the weak congruence axiom of Richter [1971] and Sen [1971]. It is ...