Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Dixit, Mukund R."
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Analysis and design of public policy using system dynamics approach: a case in healthcare sector.
Saxena, Anurag (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)High prevalence of communicable diseases, rapid increase in prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and poor maternal and child health indicators characterize public health situation in India. One of the main reasons for ... -
Behaviour of stock market prices: information assimilation and market efficiency
Ramachandran, J. (1985)The stock market plays an important role in the allocation of capital resources. The market is allocation ally efficient when it maintains equivalent rates of return on comparable investments, for this would channelize ... -
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 ... -
Corporate responses to the ecological environment: a process study of firms in the Indian chemical industry
Jose, P.D. (1997)Environmental legislation in India has become increasingly stringent since the mid-eighties. Recent legislation provides for strict liability (i.e. fault is not required to be proved) in the event of environmental mishaps. ... -
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, ... -
Discontinuities of Environmental Elements, Firm Responses, and Dynamic Capabilities: An Empirical Investigation of Interrelations in Select Indian Manufacturing Sectors
Bhowmick, Bhaskar (2012)Continuities, discontinuities (deletions), and additions of environmental elements are important realities of a firm’s environment. They pose distinct managerial challenges and demand capabilities to enable the firm to ... -
Does Strategic Planning Determine Innovation in Organizations? A Study of Indian SME Sector
Batra, Safal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation is considered to be a source of competitive advantage. Not surprisingly, innovation has been a matter of scholarly interest for several decades now. However, despite its critical importance to the strategy ... -
Entry conditions, relative role of owners and management, strategic conduct and performance: a study of large firms of major Indian industries
John, K. C. (1988)The major criticisms of neoclassical theory of the firm are concerned with its assumptions of ‘profit maximization’, ‘perfect information’ and ‘consensual and unitary decision making process’. Alternative theories -- ... -
Environment, business strategy and buyer supplier relationship: exploration of linkages
Mustafi, Sumit (1999)Research on the nature of buyer-supplier relationship is still in a nascent in context of developing countries like India. With economic liberalization and mounting pressure on firms to be competitive , buyer-supplier ... -
Exploring Openness in Innovation Process
Shukla, Shantam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Innovation as a source of competitive advantage helps organization gain superior returns from market. Until recently, innovation activities were generally restricted inside organizations and in some cases to select partners, ... -
Exploring the context, process and outcome of strategic information system decisions: a study of organizations from India and Singapore
Ranganathan, C. (1998)In this era of rapid change, one of the crucial issues facing senior IS executives is the development of an effective information systems (IS) strategy. Increasing advancements in information technology, together with ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of health care programmes: development of an operational framework
Narayana, B.V.L. (2011)Management’s quest to identify and understand the factors influencing the performance of an organisation has been ubiquitous. The attempt has been to identify what factors influence the conversion of intent into performance ... -
An Integrative Delineation of the Determinants of Dynamic Capabilities: A Study in the Information Technology Industry.
Pathak, Atul Arun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Dynamic capabilities are the capabilities of an organization to systematically change its resources base by sensing opportunities and making appropriate and timely decisions (Barreto, 2010; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997; ... -
Internationalization process of industrial firms: a study on the auto-component manufacturers in India and Canada
Sridhar, R. (1999)Recent studies have observed the increasing participation of firms from developing countries in international trade. They have significantly increased the size and scope of their activities across a range of industries ... -
Joint R&D projects of industrial firms and technology institutions with developmental financial institutional support: a strategy process study
Prabhu, Ganesh N. (1996)Introduction: This study develops an empirically based conceptually derived typology and model of the process through which industrial firms and technology institutions (Tis) such as technology universities and national ... -
Management of in-house technology development and transfer: a process study in the Indian pharmaceutical and chemical industries
Sikdar, Arijit (1997)Technology development has played a central role in the growth and diversification of many industries and firms in the advanced economies. However the same cannot be said of the Indian industry. On the contrary there has ... -
Marketing strategies of the state level organisation in public distribution: A study of civil supplies corporations
Koshy, Abraham (1987)In recent decades, governments have organized state owned enterprises to undertake trading and distribution of important commodities and products. Despite the social and economic importance of such organizations, research ... -
Role of human resource management in Organisational redesign
Som, Ashok (2002)In the era of rapid change, one of the crucial issues facing organizations is to cope with uncertainties. Changing environment necessitates a change in strategic intent and/or a change in business focus. The change in ...