Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Determinants of capital structure decisions in large mature corporations: an empirircal analysis
(1995)The objectives of the study were to find answers to the following questions: 1. Are agency cost measures significant determinants of the debt equity choice? (Agency costs implying costs borne by equity shareholders, because ... -
Strategic management in early stages of industry pioneers and late entrants: the case of Indian computer hardware industry
(1994)This research reviews the current research and perspectives on the concept of strategy, strategies followed by industry pioneers and late entrants, and process of strategy formation in enterprises. The research proposes a ... -
Management of in-house technology development and transfer: a process study in the Indian pharmaceutical and chemical industries
(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 ... -
A study of the process of negotiations in the evolution of turnaround packages for sick industrial units
(1992)Negotiation is becoming an important mode of decision making as well as of conflict resolution. Since better understanding of the process of negotiations is essential analyze the process of negotiation in the context of ... -
Planning for conjunctive use of surface and ground water for irrigated agriculture: a systems approach
(1991)Attempts to control the occurrence of – waterlogging of agricultural land, spreading soil salinity and rising water-table in saline groundwater zones, has met with very limited success for most medium and major irrigation ... -
Effectiveness of industrial relations systems at the enterprise level
(1980)Effectiveness of the industrial relations sub-system of an organization is crucial to its overall effectiveness. Organizational functioning can be seriously eroded by imbalance within the industrial relations subsystem. ... -
Risk in agriculture and agricultural development: the role of public policy
(1989)Agricultural incomes are subject to weather-induced variations, particularly in rainfed agricultural zones. It has been argued that the risk to agricultural income caused by the weather and other factors leads to several ... -
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 simulation model of paper industry in India
(1985)The role of information in planning process is two-fold. On the one hand, information serves as an input to planning and on the other, it serves as a bench-mark for the evaluation of planning or policy decisions. The policy ... -
Organisational restructuring an exploratory study of Indian organizations
(2005)Globally organizations look at restructuring to increase competitiveness and enhance performance under uncertain business environment. The western economics witnessed a spurt of restructuring in the 1980s as a response to ... -
Factors influencing commitment of key individuals towards an organisational transformation
(1998)Recent years have been marked by many significant changes in the technological, socio—cultural, competitive, political and legal conditions faced by Indian organizations. To sustain growth and profitability in such fast ... -
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 ... -
Relationship of prior product knowledge to pre-purchase information search ;a motivation theory approach
(2005)Understanding the consumer information search process plays a pivotal role in key strategic managerial decision areas such as communications planning and new product introduction. This study examined the process by which ... -
Joint R&D projects of industrial firms and technology institutions with developmental financial institutional support: a strategy process study
(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 ... -
Managing urban air quality in India ; Models, policy instruments and institutions
(2004)Urban air quality management has become a significant area of public policymaking. The key drivers influencing the air quality are urbanization, population growth, industrial development and vehicular growth. While development ... -
Determinants of incidence and modes of alliances: a study of Indian information industry
(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, ... -
Interaction between production scheduling and dispatching: an experimental study in an MRP frame work
(1987)Operations Planning seeks to determine the best utilization of existing resources that will help in achieving the objectives set for Operations Management. It takes the production system as given and attempts to suggest, ... -
Role of human resource management in Organisational redesign
(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 ... -
Long-term technology strategies and policies for Indian power sector
(2001)Power sector technology strategy issues in the long-term covers a wide spectrum of economic, technological, environmental, institutional and socio-political issues. The broad research objective is to assess technology ... -
Determinants of managerial role competency utilization of IT project managers
(2003)Organizations have widely implemented Competency based HR systems in the last decade. Competency profiling, gap analysis, competency based assessment and compensation/selection based on competencies has all gained international ...