Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Title
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Performance of new equity share issues: an India experience
(1981)Oversubscription of public issues of new equity shares was a common phenomenon experienced in India during the Seventies. The overwhelming public response to new equity issues, which are normally considered riskier than ... -
Performance variation across industries: role of ownership, trade and market structure
(1992)Performance of industry has been of concern to academicians as well as to practitioners and politicians. Industrial growth has been considered essential to improve the standard of living through higher productivity of ... -
Performing eating out: organizing food-spaces and 'new' forms of working
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)I seek to understand the processes of organising that emerges and manifests as food-spaces, where class and gender are constructed and performed. Such spaces may be constituted as 'eating-out' spaces, work-spaces and social ... -
Planning for computer-based management information systems for municipal corporations
(1977)Consequent to the recommendations of the administrative reforms commission, some serious attempts have been made to introduce formal management information system in central and state government departments. The present ... -
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 ... -
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 ...