Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Chandra, Pankaj"
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Determinants of knowledge flows and firm performance in industrial clusters
Upadhyayula, Rajesh S. (2006)Industrial clusters have been in existence for more than a century. Numerous explanations have been provided for the existence and continued dominance of industrial clusters. Most of the explanations before 1990 focused ... -
Dynamics of energy and electricity markets: policy analysis for India
Subramanyam, Pratima (2002)Energy and electricity markets have very long term implications as energy supply projects typically have long gestation periods and lifetimes; environmental impacts manifest over centuries; and availability of primary ... -
Energy security in South Asia: integrating the primary energy and electricity markets
Nair, Rajesh (2003)Energy security has influenced world events during the past century. In the last decade, the Asian region has emerged as the new growing consumer of energy. South Asia, a fast growing region is faced with the issue of ... -
Energy-environment policy and technology selection: modeling and analysis for India
Kanudia, Amit (1996)Energy is a critical input to economic growth. The Indian energy sector is already under strain due to shortages in commercial energy supply, low reserves of oil and gas. high oil imports, unsustainable use of biomass in ... -
Future energy transitions in India: an assessment of new and renewable energy technologies
Sharma, Kamal Kishore (2006)Energy systems development has always depended on choices made by consumers, producers, governments and societies. Historically, the choices are made in favour of those alternatives that are most satisfactory in terms of ... -
Identification and building of capabilities for knowledge intensive, highly risky and uncertain activities: a study in the oil and gas sector
Sharma, Sunil (2009)Upstream petroleum firms acquire blocks to explore oil and gas, These decisions are strategic choices for the firm exercised under conditions of high uncertainty and risk. Firms, therefore, continuously strive to improve ... -
Implications of electricity reforms on technology and environment
Nag, Tirthankar (2005)India has initiated economic reforms in the early nineties with the aim of globalization of the economy and making it competitive in the international market. Reforms in the electricity sector were initiated encouraging ... -
Integrated energy systems modeling for policy analysis and operational planning
Pandey, Rahul (1998)This research focuses on the application of mathematical modeling for analyses at the levels of long-term national energy policy and medium-term operational planning for electric utility in India. bong-term policy concerns ... -
Inter-firm linkages and small-scale enterprises: a study of sub-contracting relationships
Pani, Pranab Kumar (2000)The diversity of inter-firm linkages, networks, alliances, and subcontracting, has thrown up fresh challenges for industrial organization literature. A number of studies attempt to analyses the factors that contribute to ... -
Manufacturing futures: an empirical study of outsourcing in the automobile industry
Banerjee, Dhruva (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 ... -
Planning, coordination and stability of supply chain networks
Palsule-Desai, Omkar D. (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 ... -
Production planning and scheduling in multi-stage batch production environment
Mehta, Peeyush (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 ... -
Role of operational capabilities on performance in Indian apparel retail sector
Gangula, Bharath (2010)Indian apparel retail sector has shown tremendous growth rates over the last decade. Owning to tremendous growth rates and more stores getting added up, gives the customer a variety of choices in terms of store formats and ... -
Technical and allocative efficiency in Indian dairy industry: a comparative study across institutional structures
Sen, Arindam (2008)The dairy sector in India has undergone rapid changes in last two decades in terms of milk production, market structure and Government policy orientation. India’s emergence as the largest milk producer in the world, coupled ... -
Three essays on operational and strategic decisions in a competitive auto component replacement market
Jain, Nimit (2008)With constantly evolving markets and changing dynamics among firms, the competition has taken new dimensions. Competition on price alone is no longer sustainable. Increasingly, firms are competing on multiple dimensions ...