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A study of quality circles in Indian organisations
(1988)
Quality Circles (QCs) are credited with making substantial contributions towards prosperity of Japanese industries. In the last decade, QCs have spread to a large number of countries. In India, about 400 organizations have ...
Managerial heuristics of pioneering innovative (PI) entrepreneurs: an exploratory study
(1988)
Managerial heuristics are defined as the decision-rules guiding the less programmed decisions of entrepreneurs/executives. A review of literature on entrepreneurship suggests that the scene is dominated by the search for ...
Organizations as agents of social change: policy orientation and organizational design
(1988)
This study is an exploration of the organizational design of voluntary organizations in India. The focus of the study was to understand what configurations of characteristics are associated with different policy stances ...
Stocking policies for blood components: a case of substitutable, perishable items
(1988)
Transfusion of blood from a healthy donor to a needy patient is a powerful therapeutic tool in modern medical practice. All major hospitals in India have blood banks, whose purpose is to provide 'safe' blood to patients ...
Multistage bulk commodity distribution: development of decomposition lagrangian relaxation based algorithm
(1988)
Bulk commodity distribution is an important problem in large countries. Huge expenses are incurred in warehousing and transportation. Situation is characterized by multistage location of warehouses and location and ...
Entry conditions, relative role of owners and management, strategic conduct and performance: a study of large firms of major Indian industries
(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 -- ...
Asset pricing models under parameter nonstationarity
(1988)
Asset pricing theory in modern finance deals with the valuation of risky assets, particularly, financial securities. Apart from its application in portfolio management, asset pricing theory is used in corporate finance to ...
Decision support system for portfolio management
(1988)
Decision making has remained a prime area of research, both for the management scientists and the behvioural scientists. Various approaches to decision making view either information, or analytical techniques, or intuition ...
Influence of Organisational culture on Organisational structure
(1988)
Organizational structure has been one the popular topics of research for sociologists and organization theorists during the last few decades. There are two schools of thought in the literature on organizational structure; ...
Extent of exposure and satisfaction with exposure as predictors of attitudes towards women as managers
(1988)
Several organizations appear to discriminate against women. This discrimination is commonly traced to the stereotypic attitudes of male managers toward women as managers. Reducing discrimination, therefore, requires changing ...