Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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Planning, coordination and stability of supply chain networks
(2010)Over the past quarter century, supply chain management has evolved as an interdisciplinary and attracting interests from practitioners and academia. During this period, a number of supply chain paradigms have helped transform ... -
Political processes in grievance resolution: An empirical study
(1994)From its origins in law, the scope of the concept of "due process“ (the idea of procedural as well as substantive rights of citizens) has expanded to include work organizations. In the industrial organizations, considerations ... -
Portfolio behaviour of Indian commercial banks
(1980)In allocating their funds the commercial banks have to fulfil a number of legal restrictions. The increasing nature of the restrictions has reduced the freedom of the banks to operate on their portfolio. Despite this it ... -
Power sector reforms: emerging generation markets and externalities
(2005)The objective of the thesis is to analyze the effects of electricity sector reforms on the generation markets and corresponding externalities. The study answer the following questions: I ) What arc the new electricity ... -
Predicting corporate sickness: the case of indian textile industry
(1980)Corporate Sickness is widespread in the Indian Corporate Sector. Several financial institutions are trying hard to develop early warning systems. This dissertation is a small contribution in that direction. The attention ... -
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 ... -
Private sector participation and container terminal efficiency issues and evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Greater Private Sector Participation (PSP) is widely considered an effective means to enhance the competitiveness of a nation’s port sector. In this context, the thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of container terminal ... -
A process evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) enrolment process: Lens of accountability
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Increased accountability (through increased efficiency, cost reduction and expertise of private actors) has been used as one of the primary justifications for encouraging private sector participation in the public health ... -
Process lag and individual stress in organizations: a diagnostic basis for OD
(1979)Organization Development (OD) as one way to operationalize planned change has emerged as pressures have been building to manage the individual-organization interphase more effectively. The process of rapid change ushered ... -
The process of technology transfer in the Ahmedabad textile Industry
(1980)By studying the transfer of technology from ATIRA to its users, it was hoped that some insights could be gained regarding international transfer of technology (in India) and directions for further work emerge. There would ... -
Production planning and scheduling in multi-stage batch production environment
(2004)We address the problem of jointly determining production planning and scheduling decisions in a complex multi-stage, multi-product, multi-machine, and batch-production environment. Large numbers of process and discrete ... -
Project management in government and joint sector organizations: comparative case studies of four projects
(1987)The significance of this research study is identified in the context of the important role of joint public sector projects in a developing country and the need to improve their performance. The study is exploratory in ... -
Public distribution of food grains in India
(1977)The present research was undertaken to understand in the Indian context, the ole assigned to the Public Distribution System (PDS) and, the effectiveness of its performance in the past to define its conceptual role under ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Re-Internationalization Process in Organizations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Re-internationalization, or a firm’s re-entry into international operations after exiting from initial international operations, is a scarcely researched phenomenon, although it has been found that intentions for re-entry ... -
Real-time analytics for intelligent systems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-17)Data streams are defined as a sequence of observations arriving continuously at a fast pace. They pose unique computational challenges viz: Single-pass at incoming observations, huge storage requirements, and accounting ... -
Redefining dignity in the context of precarity: Indian security guards’ interface with their clients, suppliers and unions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)Precarity, marked by uncertainty, instability and insecurity has become a significant feature of contemporary work and employment. This is particularly applicable to India, where 93% of the workforce (which includes those ... -
Regulatory reforms and state supervised corporate bankruptcy reorganization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Bankruptcy code is an important determinant of the balance of control between creditors and debtors, during the state-supervised bankruptcy resolution process. In this thesis, across three essays, we study two bankruptcy ... -
Relationship between corporate strategy, structure, and the personnel function
(1983)More and more organizations are feeling the need for a more effective utilization of their human resources. One thus sees that the personnel function has moved from a maintenance role and the line function to a corporate ...