Browsing Working Papers by Author "Ramachandran, K."

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    • Achieve zero customer dissatisfaction for corporate immortality 

      Ramachandran, K. (2009-12-14)
      The paper goes beyond the term of marketing and other specific functions, and identifies ZCD approach as the route to ensure corporate immortality. The paper draws on experiences of a number of companies to support the arguments.

    • Business logic for dotcom businesse 

      Ramachandran, K. (2010-01-16)
      The rise and fall of a number of dotcoms has attracted a lot of attention in business press, but there does not seem to have been any in depth study to understand the economic logic of dotcom businesses. A close analysis ...

    • Corporate networking for strategic advantage 

      Dixit, Mukund R.; Ramachandran, K. (2010-07-27)
      This paper attempts to conceptualise some of the thoughts that are emerging in the area of corporate networking. While some research has been done in this area in the advanced western countries, nothing so far has happened ...

    • Corporate strategy revisited: towards developing a dynamic framework 

      Ramachandran, K.; Ray, Sougata (2010-04-05)
      Corporate strategy has become a major area of research especially in recent years. Strategy research has off-late shifted from the industrial organization paradigm of the 80s to the resources based view with the core ...

    • JIT implementation: outlines of a strategy 

      Thomas, P. S.; Ramachandran, K. (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, ...

    • Regional development policy: an international survey of incentive schemes 

      Ramachandran, K. (2010-03-19)
      Industrialisation of backward areas has attracted the attention of governments all over the world, both developing and advanced. These efforts vary from direct investment to indirect assistance. This paper reviews the ...

    • Strategic planning practices of small scale enterprises 

      Ramachandran, K. (2010-03-22)
      Although there is some evidence to suggest that small scale enterprises also make strategic plans, there is still a lot of suspicion about its usefulness for small firms. The basic question is that given their level of ...

    • Study of urban informal sector with special reference to pan shops 

      Ramachandran, K. (2010-07-20)
      Industrialization and the consequent urbanization of less developed countries has led to the growth of ral small business activities which could be clubbed under the umbrella of Urban Informal Sector. The role and contribution ...

    • Technology finance entrepreneur linkages 

      Ramachandran, K. (2010-03-23)
      Development of entrepreneurship depends not only on the supply of credit, but also on appropriate technology especially in backward areas. There have been several credit facilities offered to small firms, and there have ...

    • Zero consumer dissatisfaction 

      Ramachandran, K. (2009-12-12)
      One of the key questions often asked is why businesses fall, and what prevents companies from dynamically adjusting to the changing consumer needs and be in touch with them? This paper argues that businesses will be sustained ...