Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Basant, Rakesh"
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Adaptiveness in water management institutions: nature, existence and impact
Bhamoriya, Vaibhav (2010)The effective management of water resources is assuming enormous importance in India in the recent years. Sound water resource use is crucial for sustaining and raising food production, increasing rural incomes, alleviating ... -
Antecedents and consequences of top management team's power structure in a family business context
Kerai, Anita (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)There are differences in the goals and motivations of the family managers vis-a-vis the nonfamily managers of a family firm that lead to power struggles between the two cohorts. Power distribution among family and non-family ... -
Antecedents of diversification: perspectives from theories of firm
Karthik, D. (2006)The managers and consultants in the West continue to dismantle conglomerates and refocus the mildly diversified firms; however the large, diversified firms and business groups continue to remain a dominant from in emerging ... -
Building capabilities for global service delivery: a study in the Indian software service sector
Karna, Amit (2009)Firm Capabilities have attracted research attention for several years. Capabilities have been seen from resource-based (Barney, 1991) and process-based (Helfat et al,2007) views. We take the latter and define capabilities ... -
Capability building leading to commercialization: a study of product based Indian telecom start-ups
Aeron, Prageet (2011)New ventures, especially in high-tech domain {defined by OECD as sectors with high R&D intensity, such as aerospace, biotech, etc.), have received wide recognition for their important contributions to the economy. Prior ... -
Degree of Openness and Project Performance: a Multi-Country Empirical Assessment of Open Innovation Information Technology Initiatives
Krishnan, Sudeep K (2013)The concept of open innovation has received much interest in management research of late. Open innovation paradigm considers that in order to advance technologies and markets, firms can and should leverage internal and ... -
Determinants and outcomes of intention to quit of Indian IT professionals
Krishnan, Sandeep K. (2007)Globalisation and outsourcing have become buzzwords in the present economic boom. India is getting considerable attention, with specific focus on software services outsourcing. The Indian software services sector is growing ... -
Determinants of entry in the Indian manufacturing sector: 1993-2000
Saha, Subhendra Nath (2002)Industrial Organisation literature has a long tradition of analyzing determinants of entry in the industrial sector. In most cases the purpose of such analyses has been to identify factors that result in barriers to entry. ... -
Determinants of human resource responses in the context of mergers - an exploration into executive responses
Prasanth, D. (2002)Mergers and acquisitions have become the principal tools for corporate restructuring. There has been a sharp increase in both the number and size of the mergers and acquisitions in the 90s. An extensive review of literature ... -
Determinants of incidence and modes of alliances: a study of Indian information industry
Gupta, Vivek (2004)Globalization and technological changes are rapidly changing the context in which business firms function. Firms are responding in a variety of ways to these changes and one of the responses is the use of alliances, ... -
Determinants of Inter-Country Variations in Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Cases of Outward FDI from India
Jain, Palakh (2013)Existing literature offers the reasons for emergence of foreign direct investment (FDI) through various hypotheses. The intangible assets advantage hypothesis suggests that FDI occurs due to presence of a bundle of “intangible ... -
Determinants of knowledge flows and firm performance in industrial clusters
Upadhyayula, Rajesh S. (2006)Industrial clusters have been in existence for more than a century. Numerous explanations have been provided for the existence and continued dominance of industrial clusters. Most of the explanations before 1990 focused ... -
Emerging patterns of transnational activity in India: a study of foreign collaboration intentions in the 1990s
Rosario, Shirley Louis (1999)The context: Policy changes initiated in July 1991, have seen the number of foreign collaboration intentions into India approved by the ministry of industry more than double every year to average 1,827 in number during ... -
Environmental Compliance: A case study of the Alang ship-breaking yard
Priyadarshini, Keren (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2003)A study of the Alang Ship-breaking Yard, Gujarat was undertaken to examine the factors responsible for environmental non-compliance. Levels of pollution can be lowered through effective environmental regulations. The ... -
Essays on internal markets of business groups
Sai, Chittaranjan Kalubandi (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In three essays, I examine how access to internal markets of business groups impacts affiliate firms’ behavior. In the first essay, I examined the importance of business group affiliation, prior internationalization of ... -
Identification and building of capabilities for knowledge intensive, highly risky and uncertain activities: a study in the oil and gas sector
Sharma, Sunil (2009)Upstream petroleum firms acquire blocks to explore oil and gas, These decisions are strategic choices for the firm exercised under conditions of high uncertainty and risk. Firms, therefore, continuously strive to improve ... -
Impact of CEO Succession on Strategic Changes in Large Indian Firms
Sharma, Kamal (2016)This thesis integrates aspects of CEO cognition, managerial discretion, firm’s internal dynamics and institutional drivers to better understand the impact of CEO succession on strategic changes. This is the first broad-based ... -
Inter-firm linkages and small-scale enterprises: a study of sub-contracting relationships
Pani, Pranab Kumar (2000)The diversity of inter-firm linkages, networks, alliances, and subcontracting, has thrown up fresh challenges for industrial organization literature. A number of studies attempt to analyses the factors that contribute to ... -
Investment options and least cost planning in the electricity sector in India
Paul, Pallavi (2002)Today, the notion that all of the electricity sector is a natural monopoly, and as such is best organized as a regulated monopoly is no longer valid. Developments in contracting in regulation methods, in information ... -
Linkages between human resource flexibility, ambidexterity and successful outcomes in the context of information technology firms
Sohani, Shrihari Suresh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)Management of alternate contexts that may arise due to a volatile exogenous environment can compel an organisation to explore new capabilities along with the exploitation of existing capabilities (O'Reilly and Tushman, ...