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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 ... -
Adoption of family planning: a process model and optimal pattern for the visit of a field worker
(1975)In the context of the poor performance of the national family planning programme and the current paucity of resources, a major problem facing the programme administration is that of effective utilization of available ... -
Implementation and administration of a management control system
(1976)The study, reported in this dissertation, had two objectives: 1. To identify the problems arising during implementation and administration of management control systems and recommend methods to reduce these problems; 2. ... -
Use of credibility theory for rate-making in marine (Cargo) insurance business
(1976)Marine (cargo) Insurance is one of the commercial lines of insurance business. Traditionally, rate-making in this line is intuitive, based on individual knowledge, wisdom and general feel of underwriters. The extent of ... -
Corporate dividend behaviour with special emphasis on growth and controlled companies
(1976)The study examines the divided policies and practices of 158 manufacturing non-government public limited companies for the period 1961-72 and covers about 19% of the total corporate sector. It attempts to answer whether ... -
Function and effectiveness of product management institution in Indian consumer goods industry
(1976)The Product Management Institution (PMI), a comparatively new organizational approach is gaining popularity among the Indian consumer goods manufacturing during the last decade and half. In this system, an individual is ... -
An application of cost benefit analysis to rural electrification
(1977)The purpose of Benefit-Cost Analysis is to evaluate benefits and costs 'correctly' while comparing competing alternatives and choose the best of them in order to maximize society's benefits. If every input is cost at its ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-objective two-level planning for extending banking facilities to rural areas
(1977)This dissertation develops multi-objective two level planning methodologies for the problem of extending banking facilities to rural areas. An investigation of the existing banking spread reveals that the spread had taken ... -
Industrial buyer behaviour in the thermoplastic raw material manufacturing industry in India for capital, fabricated and standard items
(1977)This dissertation researched the industrial buyer behavior In one industry in India for three types of firms namely centralized, mixed decentralized and decentralized organizations, in so far as the purchase decision making ... -
Strength and correlates of participatory desire among employees in two organisations
(1977)Most research on participation has taken workers desire for participation for granted. In this dissertation an attempt was made to examine empirically the main assumption underlying participation theory namely, workers ... -
Simulation model to determine minimum inventory level in grey room of textile industry
(1977)Under the ideal conditions, textile mills should have only that much of inventory of cloth, which is actually being processed. Therefore objective of the enterprise is to reduce the magnitude of express work in process ... -
The Semi-integrated steel industry of India
(1977)This dissertation attempts to examine the economics of the semi-integrated steel industry of India. The semi-integrated steel industry provided a central focus for the frenzied drive for meeting the persistent steel shortages ... -
Size, profitability and growth of some of the Indian manufacturing industries
(1978)What are the causes of growth of an industrial undertaking? One important cause, widely discussed in the economic literature, is the reduction in cost due to increase in size - economies of scale. Businessmen need the ... -
Money,finance and economic development; the case of India
(1978)Contemporary macro theory has taken a peculiar stand on the role of the institution of’ money and the financial system in the economic processes of’ a market economy. Though it has paid B great deal of attention to the ... -
Economic performance of the ancillary industry in India: managerial and policy implications
(1978)Ancillary units are small Firms that manufacture and supply intermediate goods to large Firms or master units. In India, the official definitions of a small scale unit and an ancillary unit, for registration, imply that ... -
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 ... -
Organisational characteristics and unit performance - the case of bank branches
(1978)This dissertation is a study of organizational performance and the identification of managerial and organizational characteristics which are associated with high and low performing organizations, The units which have been ... -
Resource allocation and scheduling in project networks under risk
(1978)The effects of scheduling heuristics and resource availability (single resource type) on project completion time when the activity durations are known with certainty and also when they are assumed to follow a known probability ...