Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Control systems in non-profit sevice organizations; the case of the state-owned hospital
(1990)Complexity of organizations from the point of view of designing control systems, increased as we move from manufacturing to service organizations, and from for-profit to nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit organizations ... -
Small business behavior: development and test of a multivariate model
(1999)Small businesses have been the subject of research interest in at least three independent fields of inquiry: economics, entrepreneurship, and life cycle theory. However, a review of the literature indicates: (1) the absences ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of quality management programmes as a process of planned organisational change
(1998)In the last decade, Indian organizations have been paying increasing attention to quality of products and services. Reasons for this focus on quality are increased competition and more demanding and discerning customers ... -
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; ... -
Purchase of branded agricultural inputs: a study of pesticide buying behaviour
(1994)The pesticide market in India is becoming highly competitive. The number of options available to a farmer for control of a pest could sometimes include over 140 pesticide brands. Farmers decision making on pesticides ... -
Learned helplessness in the banking sector: interaction of individual and role characteristics
(1994)Learned helplessness (LH) syndrome is widespread in organizations. After repeated exposure to uncontrollable events, people come to expect that outcomes are not related to efforts. The expectation of uncontrollability leads ... -
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 ... -
An organisational enquiry into social movement
(1993)Social movements, as a genre of phenomena, could potentially find an important place within the broad concerns of public systems. The present research, which probes into the principal problematique concerning social ... -
The Dynamic multistage multicommodity process selection - location - production - allocation (DMMSLPA) model for centralised.
(1985)The concern of the present work is to determine the optimal or near—optimal growth strategy for a process industry from the point of view of the Central Planner of a country. This involves determining optimal locations of ... -
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 ... -
Multi-objective decision making: Operational features
(1981)Decision making in various contexts can be seen as a process of choice making amongst alternative opportunities of action. One such context which is fast becoming is the decision making under multiple objectives. In this ... -
A quantitative approach to media planning
(1974)This dissertation develops methodologies for solving the media planning problem, keeping in view the three-fold requirements of fidelity, analytical rigour, and practicality. A mathematical programming model has been ... -
An exploratory-formulative study of executive dispute handling capability, morphology, measurement and modalities
(2006)Dispute handling capability is a critical resource in society given that disputes are an ever present reality in social, economic and political activity spheres. Over the years, there has been a surfeit of scholarly endeavor ... -
A study of the determinants of executive knowledge management
(2005)Knowledge as a source of competitive advantage has been discussed by many researchers in recent times. Managing knowledge hence has been considered to be a critical activity of the firm that has to survive in a highly ... -
An Exploratory-formulative case study of employee retaliation in industrial relations
(2005)A single incidence of retaliation, which resulted in shooting of a worker by the CEO of an organization and the subsequent lynching and torching of both the Personnel Manager and the CEO within the workplace premises, has ... -
Decision models for single-period and lateral stock-transfer inventory policies in disribution systems
(2004)Firms are facing intense competition in today’s global business environment. They have to produce quality products at competitive prices with unpredictable demand. To be competitive, a firm has to quickly respond to demand ... -
A multi-objective framework for the project selection problem using goal programming
(1984)It has been pointed out in the literature that usually there are multiple objectives relevant to the problem of selecting a flow project from many project proposals. Barring some recent work in this field, the project ... -
A Consumer study of law induced behaviour and attitude change: the case of safety helmets
(1983)In the past decade, marketing has increasingly entered beyond the regime of traditional business studies. Using the concepts drawn from the field of consumer behaviour and other behavioural sciences, marketing has the ... -
Pricing behaviour of the Indian capital market: a comparative analysis in the CAPM, the APT and the macro-economic context
(1995)Research regarding the behaviour of the Indian capital market has been very limited. The risk-return relationship has been studied using only the Capital Asset Pricing Model; and the factor-structure of the return-generating ...