Browsing Working Papers by Subject "Management"
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Determinants of effective working capital management - a discriminant analysis approach
(2010-03-13)Currently, many financial analysts rely on traditional financial ratios for assessing the effectiveness of the working capital management. They correlate corporate performance in this area with the so-called "ideal" ratios. ... -
Fujitsu Ltd. : A case of global management in telecomputers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1991-06-01)It is now almost axiomatic that the essence of corporate success lies in a felicitous combination of constancy of purpose and well coordinated operations. However, for global companies functioning in highly strategic ... -
Globalization Work and Management
(2009-12-12)On a larger plane, changes are also occurring in trade and business world. A few truly global organizations have emerged. However, organizations that operate in 30-40 or 10-20 countries are many, and are beginning to ... -
Management control in banks: some issues for consideration
(2010-03-18)This paper examines the following issues: (i) Should branches of commercial banks be treated as profit centers or not? (ii) What should be the transfer pricing policy with regard to funds transferred from branches to Head ... -
Management in our backyard
(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 Blood Transfusion Services in India: An Illustrative Study of Maharashtra and Gujarat States
(2010-07-22)Blood is a vital healthcare resource routinely used in a broad range of hospital procedures. It is also a potential vector for harmful, and sometimes fatal, infectious diseases such as HIV, HBV, and HCV. Morbidity and ... -
Management of rural development programmes: organizational deficiencies and strategies for improvement
(2010-03-19)The main burden of managing Rural Development Programmes falls on the District Administration which is operating unit of the government for specified region. The district Administration being an integral part of larger ... -
Management of tax expenditures: a study of the Indian case
(2010-03-13)onsidering the extensive use which policy makers in India make of the instrument of tax expenditures, what is needed is proper management of all tax expenditures. Four points are involved here. The first is concerned with ... -
Management process for the education of the future
(2010-03-13)In our philosophy, the legitimate role of social change in education has to move away from elitist orientation to whole society orientation. It is necessary to develop new value framework, attitudes, value orientations. ... -
Managing Equipment for Emergency Obstetric Care in Rural Hospitals
(2009-09-05)In resource poor countries substantial sums of money, from governments and international donors, are used to purchase equipment for health facilities. WHO estimates that 50-80% of such equipment remains non-functional. ... -
A Need for Location Specific Rice Research in India
(2012-09-27)This paper pertains to the problems of agricultural research management in India. Rice research has not yielded results of the same order as wheat research. The paper goes in to the details of rice production, area and ... -
Problems and challenges in transferring and adapting knowhow management to India
Indian organizations are in the process of transition. This process of transition is both at the organizational as well as societal level. As long as the Indian units of work were small and entrepreneurial in nature the ... -
Study of the image of Indian journals on management and social sciences in the international academic community
(2010-03-13)It is hypothesized that academic journals of noteworthy research content also have a high acceptance in the international academic community. Analysis of responses from the well known universities of the world reveals that ... -
A test for strategic planning related to management
(2010-04-17)The evidence in favour of predicting managerial success from intelligence tests is mixed. It is difficult to support the predicability of intelligence tests for occupational success (Thornton & Byham, 1982). After reviewing ... -
Urban health status in ahmedabad city: GIS based study of baherampura, kubernagar, and vasna wards
(2010-07-26)In this working paper, we discuss our initiatives in a pilot study of urban health management in Ahmedabad city, the seventh largest mega city in India with a population of 3.5 million consisting of 1.5 million people ... -
Women managers from myths to reality
(2009-09-05)The role of women worldwide is undergoing a dramatic change. Women today share the podium with men in almost all the fields, be it in kitchen or in defence. Workingwomen are no longer a rarity and are now accepted as an ...