Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Stochastic Optimization Based Decision Support System for Asset-liability Management in Life Insurance Firms
(2013)Asset Liability Management (ALM) is a critical part of financial planning for all financial institutions. ALM deals with the management of a mismatch between the assets and liabilities of such firms both in value as well ... -
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 ... -
Implementation of health care programmes: development of an operational framework
(2011)Management’s quest to identify and understand the factors influencing the performance of an organisation has been ubiquitous. The attempt has been to identify what factors influence the conversion of intent into performance ... -
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 ... -
Infrastructure for a low-carbon economy: future scenarios and policies for India
(2011)Infrastructure is the backbone through which energy flows in an economy. Hence, the policies in fluencing their choice are crucial to future energy and carbon in tensity of the economy. Major in frastructure investments ... -
A study of worker insecurity in four industrial relations contexts: a post structural approach
(2011)A review of literature suggests some broad approaches through which academic engagement with worker insecurity has occurred - communicant managerial, associations managerial, structural Marxist, radical humanist and ... -
Capability building leading to commercialization: a study of product based Indian telecom start-ups
(2011)New ventures, especially in high-tech domain {defined by OECD as sectors with high R&D intensity, such as aerospace, biotech, etc.), have received wide recognition for their important contributions to the economy. Prior ... -
A study of executive perceptions of the determinants of compensation design and satisfaction
(2011)Compensation is a very important issue as it represents the material, moral and social returns obtained by an employee for expending her labour in an organization. Compensation is a central aspect of the employment ... -
Strategic innovation for serving the low-income segment
(2011)The literature on serving the ‘bottom of pyramid’ (BOP) argues that large firms can profit from serving consumer segments, traditionally considered uneconomical. This would call for ‘strategic innovation’, as it would ... -
The dynamics of bid-ask spread in an order driven market: the case of Indian stock market
(2011)Bid-ask spread is the most important part of transaction costs for any asset class in the financial market. It affects the way information gets impounded into prices and thus price discovery of the asset. Bid ask spread, ... -
Workplace gender dilemmas: insights from women's narratives
(2011)The phenomenon of workplace gender diversity has become a reality today even in India and across the globe (Budhwar, Saini and Bhatnagar, 2005). However, this diversity has triggered challenges both for management and the ... -
Infrastructure investments, urbanization, and regional growth in India
(2011)There are significant differences in the level of economic development across states in India. Economic theories differ on the issue of convergence or divergence in regional incomes along with national economic growth. ... -
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 ... -
The role of haptic touch on product evaluation in different shopping situations
(2011)Human beings are credited with five senses i.e. vision, audition, smell, taste, and touch. The sensory evaluation process, the evaluation process involving senses, (Martinez, 2007) is utilized by us for evaluation and usage ... -
Study of the compaign planning process in Indian and French advertising agencies
(1990)The Main Objective if this research was to study and capture they campaign planning process as it occurs in advertising agencies. The study was carried out in the context of two countries, India and France. As part of the ... -
Study of managerial identity at the first line supervisor level
(1981)Studies on supervisors are common. However, very little literature exists which highlights the major reorientation a promotes requires towards the new role especially when moving from the worker to the supervisor level. ... -
Identification and building of capabilities for knowledge intensive, highly risky and uncertain activities: a study in the oil and gas sector
(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 ... -
Energy, economy and emissions in India: analysis using equilibrium models
(1999)Rapid development, increased use of fossil fuels, depletion of natural resources of energy, and increased level of carbon dioxide emissions are some of the major concerns facing the world today. The concerns, specially the ... -
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 ... -
Management investment and risks in Indian electricity generation markets
(2010)Electricity and energy market reforms are the two key challenges before policymakers under the broad goals of climate change mitigation and energy security. The central policy challenge in managing investment and risks in ...