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Analysis of Rice Production and Productivity in Eastern India
(2012-09-28): The Problem of low productivity of rice in Eastern India is currently being discussed among the policy makers, academicians and technologists. This paper attempt to analyses the data of rice production, area and productivity ... -
Analysis of the Indian securities industry: market for debt
(2010-03-27)Though the Indian equity market has shown some encouraging growth in the last decade, the Indian debt market has continued to remain sluggish. In an environment where India is keen to attract foreign investments, it will ... -
Analysis of two-unit parallel redundant system - a review
(2010-03-13)Ever since Gaver (1963) made an attempt to analyse a two unit parallel redundant system, several attempts have been made by many applied probabilists, engineers to analyse two-unit parallel redundant systems. While various ... -
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 ... -
Analysis of wagon utilization and estimating the optimal freight transport effort (loaded and empty wagon movement) for the Indian railways
(2010-03-29)Over the past four decades, the freight movement output of the Indian Railways has increased substantially. The tonnes originating increased over fourfold from 73.2 million tonnes in 1950-51 to 302 million tonnes in 1988-89. ... -
Analytical study of performance and regional variations in Indian agriculture in the post - green revolution period
(2010-07-27)The paper presents the results of an analysis of all-India and state level data on area, production and yield of major crops in the post-green revolution period. It reveals that there was a marked acceleration in the overall ... -
Animal Health Policy in South Asia: What Can Economic Analysis Contribute?
(2009-08-03)Animal health policy in South Asia region has been characterized predominantly by direct action by the government either in providing services to livestock farmers or in undertaking livestock productivity enhancing measures. ... -
Antecedents and consequences of brand equity: a meta analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Brand equity provides the firms, a competitive, financial and strategic advantage over other firms in the market. Over the past few decades, brand equity has received increasing attention from various domains. However a ... -
Antecedents and consequences of product innovation: a meta-analytic review
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-05)Building on the meta-analytic model suggested by Montoya‐Weiss et al., Journal of Product Innovation Management, 11(5), 397-417, (1994), this study proposes a framework for product innovation to identify what strategies ... -
Application of markov chains to management of leasing
(2010-03-15)The paper presents application of Markov Chains to management of leasing. The paper demonstrates that, despite low percentage of bad debts, there could be a significant reduction in the returns earned by a lessor because ... -
Application of optimization based decision support system in a polymer manufacturing company in India
(2009-12-12)In this paper we describe the application of the multi-period optimization based DSS in a polymer manufacturing company in India. This is probably the first attempt to use a mathematical programming model for operating and ... -
Application of systems approach at the micro level in education: two cases
(2010-03-13)The problems in the field of education are very complex. The process of education involves various human beings like students, teachers, parents, educationists, administrators and other members of the community. To effectively ... -
An application of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test
(2010-03-14)The present study makes use of the Mann-Whitney 'U' test in order to certify whether the two independent group of units - engineering and non-engineering - have been drawn from the same population of private sector industrial ... -
Approach and avoidance behaviour of managers
(2010-03-13)Organizational settings is continuing for long. This paper analyses the employee behaviour in terms of his various needs or motives. It presents the validity and reliability measures of an instrument developed to operationalize ... -
Approach for the agricultural strategy in the fifth five year plan of Gujarat
(2010-03-14)The basic principle in developing an approach for the agricultural strategy in the Fifth Five Year Plan is that instead of super-imposing a growth rate of agricultural sector to be achieved in the Fifth Five Year Plan, it ... -
Approach to the design of corporate identity
(2010-03-20)The corporate form of organization is being used in many spheres of economic and social activity. Public enterprises and development corporations have swelled the ranks of the mass of existing private sector companies. All ... -
Approaches to institution building
(2010-07-27)This paper traces the history of Behavioural Science approaches in India. The paper examines the task centered, and identity centered approach to organization development. It differentiates between the institutional and ... -
Appropriate measure of real value added and total factor productivity growth in Indian Manufacturing
(2010-03-29)It is a widely held hypothesis that the Indian industry experienced a significant turnaround in its Total Factor Productivity Growth (TEPG) during the decade of the eighties as compared to the seventies. Recently it is ... -
Approximate algorithm for reducing dummy-activities in a pert network
(2010-03-28)A project is an enterprise consisting of several activities which are to be carried out in some specific order. The activities and the order in which they need to be carried out can be represented by a pert network. Two ...