Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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International competitiveness of Indian sugar industry
(1999)Despite being the largest producer of sugar in the world, doubts are often raised about global competitiveness of the Indian sugar industry by quarters concerned with future direction of industry’s trade in a liberalized ... -
Occupational withdrawal: a study of Indian MNOs in the International Shipping Industry
(1998)Occupation in a popular sense connotes the kind of work performed by an individual for livelihood. Change in the kind of work performed declares occupational withdrawal from the individual's perspective and occupational ... -
Market regulations and stock market activity
(1993)Stock Exchanges provide a market structure for the enforcement of contract and guiding the price making process. These activities in turn affect resource allocation. Because of these ramifications, public policy makers ... -
Impact of accounting changes: an earnings perspective
(1986)The view presented in the financial statements is influenced significantly by the accounting policies adopted in their preparation. With the strong emphasis on Suring that the financial statements reflect the "economic ... -
Valuation of securities and influence of value on financial decisions of a firm
(1980)In this dissertation the price behavior of common stock of Indian private sector companies has been studied in two time perspectives, the short-run and the long-run. The study of day-to-day price behaviour has been undertaken ... -
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 ... -
Dual Channel Selling in Online Stores: Simultaneous Auctions and Posted Prices
(2009)The growth in the size and reach of the World Wide Web has given a boost to online selling. The physical location of buyers is immaterial for online selling. Such a situation is particularly favorable for conducting ... -
Life cycle costs and energy market equilibrium: a policy assessment for India
(2009)Energy production and consumption cause unintended impacts. Their exclusion by the market leads to sub-optimal resource allocations. Conventionally, market correction is proposed through Pigouviantaxes or Coasianbar gaining ... -
The Effect of Organizational Identification on Emotional Labor: A Study in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector
(2009)Organizations depend on customers for their survival and growth. With increased importance of customers, organizational focus has expanded from the traditional economic rationale associated with the product (service) to ... -
Commodities spot and future markets in India: efficiency, integration, returns and risk
(2009)The commodity futures markets in India are one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. The aim of this research is to help develop a better understanding of these markets, as also their relationship with global ... -
Efficient tabu search implementations for asymmetric traveling salesman problems
(2009)Combinatorial optimization problems are widely used to model various managerial problems including scheduling, location, routing etc. Many of these problems are known to be NP-hard. Therefore, heuristics and metaheuristics ... -
Formation process of public private partnership in transport infrastructure in India
(2009)The dissertation suggests that an attempt to create strong relational arrangements along with the contractual arrangements would lead to higher rate of success in PPP. Relational arrangements have become a major determinant ... -
A study of career mobility decisions of dual career couples
(2009)Presently, women in India comprise approximately thirty one present of the total workforce including rural and urban sectors (Budhwar, Saini & Bhatnagar, 2005). This statistics indicates a major social change in the country ... -
A Simulation and Genetic Algorithm Based Optimization of Closed – Loop Multi – Echelon Inventory System
(2009)The objective of this research is to develop a Genetic Algorithm (GA) - based optimization approach for a multi - echelon closed - loop inventory system of items which are repairable in nature. In the context of the passenger ... -
Building capabilities for global service delivery: a study in the Indian software service sector
(2009)Firm Capabilities have attracted research attention for several years. Capabilities have been seen from resource-based (Barney, 1991) and process-based (Helfat et al,2007) views. We take the latter and define capabilities ... -
An Exploration of Correlates of Performance Appraisal Politics from Appraisee Perspective: A Study of Indian Family Run Organizations
(2008)Performance appraisal (PA) research and practice suggest that political character of employee appraisal is one of the main concerns of the employees and the top managements. Research literature also acknowledges the need ... -
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 ... -
An attribution theoretical analysis of consumers satisfaction and dissatisfaction with products
(1985)Satisfaction and dissatisfaction of a consumer with a product depend on his initial expectations and the extent to which these expectations are fulfilled (confirmed) or not Fulfilled (disconfirmed) According to attribution ... -
New product introduction processes in Indian consumer goods industry
(1984)New products are often referred to as the ‘Life Blood ‘of a business enterprise. In the Indian operating environment of the firm, conditions like increasing competition, changing consumer needs and values, a more knowledgeable ... -
Multi-project scheduling under multiple resource constraints: an experimental investigation
(1984)The term Multi-Project Scheduling under Multiple Resource Constraints, MPSMRC, refers to a situation where an organization seeks to allocate a set of common scarce resources to the competing activities of a number of ...