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Issues in PPPs in ports in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)PPP mode of investment in Indian ports has made a significant headway and is preferred for investments today. The 12 major ports and about 200 minor ports along the 7,500 km coastline of the country have together traded ... -
Issues in strategy for export promotion: an inter-industry analysis
(2010-03-24)The present paper points towards the need for integration between the new Exit policy and the 8th plan in India by considering direct and indirect effects of a unit increase in coefficients in each of the 47 commodity ... -
Issues in the development of the most disadvantaged groups in South Asia
(2010-03-14)0he paper discusses the efforts made in the development of the most disadvantaged groups (MDGs) in South Asia. It delineates four broad factors - the social political context of deprivation, the role of the central levels ... -
Issues in water rights, institutional design and pricing that need resolution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)In this paper the core issues that need resolution before water development especially by the private sector, and efficient usage can happen are very briefly outlined. These are Water rights have to be defined more ... -
Jatropha curcas L: a promising non-edible oil seeds
(2010-03-27)Jatropha curcas L. is a non-edible oil seeds which grows widely in some areas in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan where it is also grow as live fence on the boundaries of fields. Being hardy in nature it can survive ... -
JIT implementation: outlines of a strategy
(2010-07-20)The logic of JIT represents the core of a new management paradigm that has been used to devastating effect by Japanese companies during the 1970s and 1980s. in this paper, intended primarily for practitioners and tea hers, ... -
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 ... -
Job satisfaction and moral in medium scale organizations
(2010-03-31)A developing country like India cannot afford to neglect the problem of the people who contribute to its economic growth. Men work to satisfy their needs, and the extent of need satisfaction or need frustration is reflected ... -
Job satisfaction job involvement and participation amongst different categories of bank employees
(2010-03-15)This investigation aims to assess job satisfaction, job involvement and participation among officers and clerical cadre of a nationalised bank. The sample consists of 500 bank employees from western zone. Job satisfaction, ... -
Job stress of a creative manager
(2010-03-22)The 'inverted-U' relationship between stress and performance is well-known. It is reasonable to assume a similar relationship between stress and creativity. However, very little is known about the reverse relationship; the ... -
Joint Sales Promotion: Prospects & Issues
(2009-09-02)This study is an attempt to understand current consumer joint sales promotion in India and thereby identify related prospects and problems. For a conceptual overview, relevant literature in this area was studied. To gain ... -
Joint Ventures and technology Trade
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Justifiable preferences for freedom of choice
(2010-01-16)In this paper we say that a preference for freedom of choice is justifiable if there exists a reflexive and complete binary relation on the set of alternatives, such that one oppurtunity is atleast as good as a second, if ... -
Key Account Management
(2013-11-25)This note tries to explain concept of key account management (KAM), factors leading to importance of this emerging concept, criteria to determine key accounts from customer base, benefits to both buyers and sellers ... -
Knowledge acquisition from examples using a reference class
(2010-03-23)Acquiring knowledge from examples is frequently used in expert systems. A common model is building of a decision tree which discriminates each class from every other class. Though such a model performs well as far as ... -
Knowledge building in industry - technology institution joint R & D projects: a process model
(2009-12-12)Technology institutions (TIs) traditionally rely on industry for funding basic research, generating researchable problems and commercializing their R&D, while industrial firms traditionally rely on TIs for basic research ... -
Labour in a textile city: a study of workers needs and welfare in ahmedabad
(2010-03-13)The basic hypothesis of this study is that welfare expenditure undertaken by various independent agencies does not meet the felt needs of the workers. A socio- economic survey was conducted identify these needs. The survey ... -
Labour market deepening in the Indian information technology industry: an exploratory analysis
(2009-12-12)The analysis suggests that deepening is actually taking place but the pace but pace can probably be enhanced. Transition to the off-shore model, growth of the ITES sector, competition and infrastructure led movement of IT ... -
Labour reforms: a delicate act of balancing the interests
(2010-04-03)In this study we examine the issue of the need of labour reforms in the globalised economy. The two legislations discussed in detail are: Chapter VB of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947- provisions relating to layoff, retrenchment ... -
Lagged variable models and their estimation
(2010-03-28)The paper discusses the reasons for hypothesizing various kinds of lagged variable models, their characteristics and the appropriate methods for estimating them. In particular, the distributed lag model, the partial ...