Browsing Working Papers by Author "Khandwalla, Pradip N."

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    • Causal linkages among dimensions of perceived organizational environment 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      The paper highlights the importance of environmental perceptions of management for a strategic conti theory of organizational functioning. Based on data from 75 Indian organizations, the paper examines the temporal stability ...

    • Chemistry of effective management 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-18)
      A number of dimensions of top management philosophy or style are identified. Management philosophy may be considered risk taking or conservative, technocratic or oriented and seat-of-the-pants methods, participatory or ...

    • Contingency theory: a third world view 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      Contingency theory is viewed as an outcome of social transition. The evolution and development of contingency organization theory in the West and in India is reviewed. Its extensions, implications, and limitations are ...

    • Corporate sickness and its prevention by financial institutions 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      Growing corporate sickness seems to be a global phenomenon, at least is the world's market-oriented economies. But the causes of sickness may differ as between Third World countries like India and the developed Western ...

    • Creative restructuring 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-01-18)
      In the context of liberalization of globalization of economy, the changes required in the functioning of corporates need to be vast. Corporate restructuring has become an important means for achieving such changes in India ...

    • Crisis responses of competing versus noncompeting organizations 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-12)
      The purpose of the paper is to identify responses of organizations undergoing crisis when they are subjected to either much competition or little competition.

    • Cult of vishnu and Indian's economic development 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-04-17)
      The nature of the work ethic of a society may significantly shape the character of its economic development. It is argued that the cult of Vishnu and its associated work ethic have played a notable role in the economic ...

    • Effective corporate response to liberalisation: the Indian case 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-28)
      In most developing societies there has been a decisive shift towards economic liberalization, that is, towards deregulation and globalization of the economy. Liberalisation has two majhor consequences for the corporate ...

    • Effective management styles: an Indian study 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-27)
      Management style is defined to be the distinctive way the management of an organization carries out its various functions, in this exploratory study, ten archetypal styles of top management are described, operationally ...

    • Gearing strategic public enterprises for internationalisation: the Indian case 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-15)
      In the context of chronic balance of payments problems in most Third World countries, public enterprises (PEs) of the Third World are a major under-utilised source for stepping up exports. In many Third World countries PEs ...

    • Generators of pioneering-innovative management; some Indian evidence 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-14)
      Based on questionnaire data on a sample of Indian organizations, the paper identifies some of the internal and environmental generators of a vigorous mode of management labelled the pioneering-innovative (PI) mode. The ...

    • Indian work on organizational effectiveness 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (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- ...

    • Management education in India 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-04-17)
      The paper briefly sketches the history and special features of Indian management education. It offers an analysis of its strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. It concludes that while the prospects are uncommonly ...

    • Management in our backyard 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-20)
      The paper describes the tentative conclusions from interviews with a variety of individuals with respect to indigenous modes of management and also from the study of the annual reports of about 200 companies. Evidence ...

    • Management of divercificaiton in the public sector 

      Chaudhuri, Shekhar; Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-13)
      Public enterprises in India are rapidly diversifying their business as a response to environmental changes as well as to achieve their growth, profitability and other strategic objectives. Hence, management of diversification ...

    • "McKinsey" versus "movement" change management: Kurukshetra of the 21st century? 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-10-01)
      The paper contrasts two paradigms of management change that may increasingly compete for management allegiance: the professionalist, a analytical, bottomline oriented McKinsey mode and the participatory, collectivist, ...

    • Mediating influence of top management styles on the relaitonship between external environment and Organisational structure: tests of some hypotheses 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-25)
      Three styles of top management, labelled entrepreneurial, professional, and conservative, were empirically derived from cluster analysis of policies and practices data from a sample of companies. Eleven hypotheses were ...

    • OB for social development: a position paper 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-18)
      The thesis of the paper is that OB can contribute richly to socio-economic development of poor Third orld societies. It can do so through research on OB-related problems of the strategic organizations of these societies ...

    • Organizational behaviour research in India: a review 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-12)
      The paper defines Organizational Behaviour (OB) and indicates its relevance to management. It briefl describes some global trends in OB. Next, it discusses trends in OB research in India vis-a-vis quantity of OB research, ...

    • Organizational effectiveness: post-1976 survey of Indian research 

      Khandwalla, Pradip N. (2010-03-12)
      The paper examines the concept, determinants, and implications of the effectiveness of complex organizations in the Indian development context. The terms effectiveness, complex organization, and Indian developmental context ...