Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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Managing diversification: the general management process
(1978)The objective of this thesis is to understand and conceptualize the general management process of managing a diversification move during the transition phase. The research question investigated was: What is the process of ... -
Managing maternal health care services through public private partnerships: policy issues and implications " a study of the Chiranjeevi scheme in Panchmahals district of Gujarat, India"
(2010)Background: The UNDP Millennium Development Goal aims at reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015. An estimated 1.2 million children are born in the state of Gujarat each year, including ... -
Managing Rural Institutional Credit: Lessons From Interlinked Transactions
(2013)In recent years, the focus of numerous rural credit institutions, which includes lenders from both formal and semi-formal (the micro-finance providers) domains, has started shifting from traditional credit-alone approach ... -
Managing the technology purchase decision process in the Indian public sector
(1982)This thesis attempted to structure precisely the decision process in ten technology purchase decisions made between 1969-80 in one petrochemical industry in the Indian public sector. Based on literature from Technology ... -
Managing the water-energy-climate change nexus: an integrated policy road map for India
(2011)This research examines the water - energy - climate change nexus to delineate policies that harmonize the nexus favourably. Typically, the energy-climate nexus has been studied as a mitigation problem, the water-energy ... -
Managing transmission system inadequacy using duals in restructured electricity markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2007)Managing transmission system inadequacy using duals in restructured electricity markets -
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 ... -
Manufacturing futures: an empirical study of outsourcing in the automobile industry
(1995)Outsourcing is becoming an important element in world-class manufacturing. It is defined as the process of identifying long-term reliable sources capable of supporting multiple value addition partnerships activities like ... -
Market regulations and stock market activity
(1993)Stock Exchanges provide a market structure for the enforcement of contract and guiding the price making process. These activities in turn affect resource allocation. Because of these ramifications, public policy makers ... -
Marketing in spearhead strategic development organisations
(1993)The need for organizations that perform strategic developmental functions in society, especially the developing countries, has led to the emergence of a variety of special purpose organizations with the primary objective ... -
Marketing strategies of the state level organisation in public distribution: A study of civil supplies corporations
(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 ... -
Markets, home country ecosystem partners & value creation: a study of Indian pharmaceutical industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Recently scholars have started studying the locus of value creation outside the firm and how various ecosystem partners and stakeholders impact firms and markets. We expand this research agenda in the context of the ... -
A measure for service quality for hospitals: scale development and validation
(1999)Service quality is defined as the difference between perceptions and expectations on the items representing the areas of performance specific to a service. The research was undertaken in order to understand these specific ... -
Measurement of Systemic Risk and its Drivers
(2013)The recent global financial crisis has taught us a tough and important lesson- there is a pressing need for containing systemic risk in the financial system. However, prior to Containing this risk and form the necessary ... -
Media, cognition and assemblage perspectives on ICT in education: a three-part study in an early-adopter Indian school
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Digital technology is expected to change education systems, and discussions around the nature of this change have started to move beyond technocentrism or unfounded optimism, to focus on the nuances of integrating digital ... -
Metaheuristics for the Single Row Facility Layout Problem
(2013)The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging a set of facilities with given lengths on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem ... -
Mitigation strategies for transitioning towards ‘Net-zero’ emissions from energy systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-23)Net-zero emissions from energy systems are essential to meet the Paris climate goals. These transitions require intensive efforts from national governments, in addition to deeper climate commitments. As a coal-dependent, ... -
Modal Shift Estimation and Financial Viability of High Speed Rail in India: The Case Study of Ahmedabad – Mumbai Corridor
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The share of rail in passenger transport in India has declined rapidly, primarily due to severe capacity constraints and inability of railways to increase the speed of travel. Other countries facing similar problems have ... -
Modeling and analysis of order fulfillment decisions in retail
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Today, retailing emphasis has shifted from transaction-orientation to consumer-orientation, where retailers are focusing to enhance the customers’ shopping experience. Retailers are redesigning their order fulfillment ... -
Modeling price behavior and convenience yield in Indian commodity futures markets
(2011)Organized commodity derivatives markets in India are relatively new. After the commencement of trading of futures on the national commodity exchanges (NCDEX, MCX, and NMCE) in 2003-2004, the trading volume and value have ...