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Firm level technological learning and performance: an empirical study in the Indian drugs and pharmaceutical industry
(1997)Firms acquire technological capability through a process of technological learning. The extant literature indicates that the process of technological learning influences a firm’s technological performance. The conceptual ... -
Formation process of public private partnership in transport infrastructure in India
(2009)The dissertation suggests that an attempt to create strong relational arrangements along with the contractual arrangements would lead to higher rate of success in PPP. Relational arrangements have become a major determinant ... -
A framework for infrastructure planning.
(1980)This dissertation is concerned with some aspects of infra-structure planning at the Taluka level. The infra-structure facilities considered are Education, Health and Road networks. Essentially the focus of the study is on ... -
A framework to analyse the telecommunications policy process in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Theories of the policy process refer to the body of theories that may be used as a lens to develop a structured view of the public policy process. What strikingly emerges from a review of literature is that academicians ... -
Freedom Related Practices and Corporate Effectiveness: An Exploratory Study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)This study explores the relationship between the practices embedded in the notion of freedom within the corporate context and corporate effectiveness. It hypothesizes that those corporate organizations that grant greater ... -
From Needing Help to Seeking Help: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Interpersonal Help Seeking Behavior in the Software Industry
(2012)Helping behavior is appreciated and rewarded, and helping interactions are greatly encouraged in organizations. Research in organizational behavior too is replete with studies on helping and on helpers. The present study ... -
Function and effectiveness of product management institution in Indian consumer goods industry
(1976)The Product Management Institution (PMI), a comparatively new organizational approach is gaining popularity among the Indian consumer goods manufacturing during the last decade and half. In this system, an individual is ... -
Future energy transitions in India: an assessment of new and renewable energy technologies
(2006)Energy systems development has always depended on choices made by consumers, producers, governments and societies. Historically, the choices are made in favour of those alternatives that are most satisfactory in terms of ... -
‘Gaining clarity on ambiguity’: vague versus precise temporal framing in marketing communications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)Extant research based on temporal construal theory has employed only specifically defined time frames for near versus distant future but has not examined the case where a future event’s time of occurrence is stated in a ... -
Global versus local brand preference formation in food products
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Brands have come to play a major role in consumer decision-making, and in this, the brand identity, which includes its perceived global and local nature, can play a very significant role. But there is inconsistent evidence ... -
Governance and economic growth in the Indian states
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)In Essay 1, I have assimilated a unique dataset of 30 indicators across three broad dimensions of Accountability, State Capacity and Fiscal Performance. Building on theoretical considerations from the New Institutional ... -
Governing by (in)visibilising: a case of waste materials, infrastructure and work
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)India has a long history of condemning Dalits and Bahujans and later Adivasis to waste-work. Intersections and overlays of caste, gender, historic exclusion, and policy neglect are mired in waste-work – work that is essential ... -
Governing subjectivities: investigating employment relations in the Indian information technology (IT) sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to study employment relations in the Indian IT industry. Drawing from Foucauldian scholarship on governmentality in organizational studies, employment relations are understood as practices ... -
Governing through problems: public policies as discursive practices
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-29)Policies produce ‘problems’ in specific ways (Bacchi, 2009). Following this logic, policies are regarded as an attempt to bring together ‘rules’ for the ‘solving’ of ‘problems’ that occur with respect to specifically ... -
Government policy, technology development, industry structure and performance of industry; an analysis of three industries
(1990)Several research studies indicate a significant deterioration in performance of industry in India over the last two decades. The growing concerns in this regard are (i) inadequate growth in industrial production (ii) high ... -
Grassroots innovations for sustainable development: the case of agricultural pest management
(1996)Farmers and others at the grassroots level in India and many other developing countries are known to experiment and innovate to come up with their own solutions to problems faced by them in the field of agriculture. However ... -
Hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the context of workplace bullying: a hermeneutic phenomenological study of food delivery platform workers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Research on workplace bullying has predominantly reported negative physiological, emotional and behavioural outcomes on targets, highlighting a stressor-strain approach (Conway et al., 2021; Hansen et al., 2021; Vranjes ... -
Heuristic approaches to some intralogistics layout and routing problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Intralogistics plays a vital role in efficiently managing and optimizing the movement of goods and materials within warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities. This thesis focuses on addressing optimization ... -
Higher education in India: efficiency, quality and sustainability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In a world where data and information are ubiquitous and omnipotent, education plays a prominent role in almost all aspects of modern life. Governments and various global agencies ramp up their efforts for propagating ...