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Structured interviews and FRM acceptability
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Reshaped fifth five year plan: Responses to changed environment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-02-01)This paper highlights the salient features of the revised fifth plan and contrasts them with those of the draft fifth plan. It also evaluates the revised exercises as a response to changed environment. -
Integrated rural development through farmers' organizations
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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. -
Some propositions about institution building
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-09-01)Institution building has become a technical term being used for the process of helping institutions develop through transfer of knowledge, the term institution building can be used to denote the process of the growth and ... -
A network planning model for power transmission system: A suggested module for wasp programme
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-09-01)This paper explores the possibility of improving the utility of the well-known WASP computer package for investment planning in power systems by introducing a Network Planning Model for representing and planning the power ... -
Institution building for management education in India- IIMA experience
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1979-10-01)This paper gives a short factual account of some of the IIMA Experience in institution building for management education. The format of presentation is in line with the conceptual framework of institution building process ... -
Lighting candles: Impact of leadership actions on institution building
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1983-05-01)This paper uses the metaphor of lighting candles to describe the process of institution building. To illustrate this, it drawn upon the actions of a prolific institution builder like Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in order to distill ... -
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- ... -
PLC: State of the art review
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)Two decates of discussion has still to clear the fog surrounding the validity of the PLC concept. This paper review available evidence, and attempts to identity some of the issues that PLC researchers need to address. ... -
Learning by doing: Technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)This paper present an indepth case study of technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm in the tractor industry and highlights the complexities involved as a result of the interaction of a number of factors both ... -
Why don't we learn
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Rural development is essentially a process of widening decision making options of the majority of the poor. Creating choices without generating capacity to act might impair learning abilities of both, who create choices ... -
Household energy behaviour and urban development: The case of Ahmedabad
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Energy is a key input to meet the basic needs of human beings like food, clothing and shelter. Household energy behaviour needs to be understood for ensuring individual and social well being. The urban household energy use ... -
Issues for research on rural development in south asia
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)There has been tremendous upsurge in writings on rural development during last decade. Incidently the economic policies followed during this period in various countries of south asia have intensified the contradictions in ... -
Indian business houses and entrepreneurship: A note on research trends
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Empirical research in entrepreneurship is of recent origin. This is so because it is only recently that the entrepreneurial and managerial ability was accorded full recognition as one of the proximate causes of economic ... -
Manufacturing resources planning - A study
(i, 1984-12-01)Manufacturing resources planning can be said to be one of the most significant development to have taken places in the area of manufacturing software in recent years. It is also termed as MRP- II, to distinguish it form ... -
On the estimation of elasticity in economics
(1984-12-01)For the measurement of elasticity, given two observation of a bivariate relationship, the arc elasticity formula has been traditionally used by economists and statisticians. However, no proper statistical justification for ... -
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, ... -
Monitoring the government policy environment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1986-03-01)Recent favourable and unfavourable changes in the government policies have prompted many corporations to review their corporate strategies. This has pointed to the need for monitoring the government policy environment ... -
Averaging model analyses of teacher expectations of performance from students varying in motivation and ability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1986-11-01)Although there have been numerous studies of the impact of teacher expectations on student performance, the manner in which expectations are formed has remained unexplored. The present research tested the hypothesis that ...