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Indian work on organizational effectiveness
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-10-01)Organizational effectiveness is a multi- dimensional construct. It may also be an important systemic variable which is both an outcome of organizational structures and processes and also their determinant. The multi- ... -
India’s agrarian crisis and smallholder producers’ participation in new farm supply chain initiatives: a case study of contract farming
(2009-08-03)Indian agriculture is at crossroads and one of the major challenges is to reverse deceleration in agricultural growth. Main reason for deceleration in agricultural growth is declining investment particularly public investment ... -
India’s air traffic system: network topologies, hierarchies and evolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The paper examines multi-dimensional patterns of network characteristics for scheduled Indian airlines between 2006 and 2014. The well-known skewed traffic distribution which concentrates traffic around relatively few hub ... -
India’s Mandatory CSR, Process of Compliance and Channels of Spending
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Corporate charity is not new to India. This voluntary action of the companies, however, is now blended with a mandatory requirement. The paper lays out the provisions of the CSR norms as per the new Companies Act 2013, the ... -
Indicators as indigenous ecological knowledge: 'Lamp Posts', 'Crossroads' and 'Turning Points'
(2010-03-28)Boundaries of most natural systems are fuzzy and thus amenable to contraction and expansion over time and space due to interaction of various natural and human variables. Fuzzy boundaries often require homeostatic indicators ... -
Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology
(2009-07-25)Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ... -
Indigenous voice: the regressive effects of western models on organization structure, management practices & relationship processes in Indian organizations
(2010-04-03)The decades of the nineties for the Indian organization have been both dramatic and traumatic. India has borrowed technology, organization structures and management practices from Japan and many countries of the West. The ... -
Indirect utility extension: axiomatic characterizations
(2010-01-18)In this paper, we first provide several axiomatic characterizations of the indirect utility extension. The general problem we are interested in this paper is of the following variety: We are given a finite universal set ... -
Individual factors and organizational initiatives enabling the success of PWD-managers
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-03-19)In this paper we look into the factors that support the career advancement of People with Disability (PWD) and trigger the breaking of the glass ceiling. We explore the Social Cognitive Career Theory and examine the ... -
Individual taxation: A proposal for reform
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1985-06-01)Inflation affects real income tax liabilities in two ways. First, inflation erodes the value of fixed rupee amounts ( for example, ceiling on doductions, nil tax income slab, etc.) and second, in a progressive tax system, ... -
Indo-US Trade in Wheat and Mango: A Game-Theoretic Approach to SPS Standards
(2009-07-30)The gradual elimination of quotas and tariffs from international agricultural trade has given way to non-tariff barriers such as the SPS measures. SPS standards are mostly based solely on agro-biological scientific evidence. ... -
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 ... -
Industrial growth during the eighth five year plan period and beyond
(2010-03-26)This paper attempts to answer three questions: (1) Is the Eighth Plan target of 8.2% rate of growth likely to be attained? (2) Is the target of 9-10% rate of growth of industrial production that is likely to be set in ... -
Industrial growth strategy: implications for sponge iron
(2010-03-14)This paper presents a general framework for industrial growth strategy from the view point of central industrial planner. The framework allows for a planning horizon and several periods and the growth strategy can be divided ... -
Industrial man of India
(2010-03-12)In this paper, the author primarily deal with those industrial men who are more directly involved in industrial activity. -
The industrial man of India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-06-01)In this paper, the author primarily deal with those industrial men who are more directly involved in industrial activity. -
Industrial performance and government controls
(2010-03-13)In this Paper examines the growth and utilization of industrial capacity in India, the factors responsible for inter- industry variations in capacity utilization and the policy implications of the finding s of the study. ... -
Industrial relations in Gujarat
(2010-03-21)The author describes the various Organizational, social economic and political factors which contributed to the emergence and development of trade unionism in the banking industry. The structure of unionism in this industry ... -
Industrial restructuring, unions and the state: the case of textile mill workers in Ahmedabad city
(2011-09-02)This paper looks at the case of 50,000 odd workers who lost their jobs between 1983-84 as a result of closure of privately owned textile mills in Ahmedabad city. In a large majority of cases, these workers did not receive ... -
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 ...