Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Control limit models for cash management in bank branches
(1987)Development of policies for maintaining adequate cash balance in bank branches and transferring of excess cash from surplus branches to Central Office or deficit branches, are, indeed, major tasks faced by commercial banks ... -
Behaviour of stock market prices: information assimilation and market efficiency
(1985)The stock market plays an important role in the allocation of capital resources. The market is allocation ally efficient when it maintains equivalent rates of return on comparable investments, for this would channelize ... -
Study of consumers' psychological response to promotion based on mental accounting principles
(2005)As industry expenditure on sales promotion has grown, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on the impact of promotions on consumer behavior. The substantial body of literature on promotions is composed of ... -
Identification and measurement of work-dedication
(1986)People frequently use the word dedication to make social attributions and judgements. The imprecision of literary definitions of dedication restricts their operational use. Consequently, a more precise formulation of the ... -
Human resource management in the subsidiaries of foreign firms in India
(1997)Given the current economic climate, many companies see transfrontier operations as a logical, even unavoidable step in developing their own competitive potential. Increasing transfrontier operations by firms are making it ... -
Learned helplessness in organizations
(1990)Problems and aversive situations usually make individuals engage in problem solving activities. Yet some people remain passive and apathetic. They tend to not do anything and quietly suffer the unpleasant consequences of ... -
Diversified Indian companies: a study of strategies and financial performance
(1985)In the second half of the twentieth century the corporate profile in advanced countries like USA and UK had undergone significant changes as a result of diversification strategies by their business corporations. Diversification ... -
The Sugar economy: a cobweb of policies
(1983)The India sugar economy can be viewed as a system consisting of four components: the material flow across the three stages of cane production, its conversion and consumption of end products; the feedback influences between ... -
Stocking policies for blood components: a case of substitutable, perishable items
(1988)Transfusion of blood from a healthy donor to a needy patient is a powerful therapeutic tool in modern medical practice. All major hospitals in India have blood banks, whose purpose is to provide 'safe' blood to patients ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Choice of technique in the sugar industry: an interactive multi-objective model
(1985)The Choice of Technique (C.O.T) problem has always been treated in the literature as a problem of ranking the alternative techniques available on a single criterion, viz., net objectives, if included, have been clubbed ... -
Lags in the transmission process of monetary policy in India
(1981)Monetary policy has been a major instrument of economic stabilization. Reliance on monetary policy for this purpose involves two main assumptions. a. That monetary policy is effective in influence the operation of ... -
Impact of fiscal incentives on corporate financial decisions
(1980)The Government from time to time comes up with certain fiscal incentives to affect the behaviour of the private sector to achieve the desired goal. In this thesis we have made an attempt to study the impact of two such ... -
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 ... -
Adoption of management systems in Indian organisations
(1980)Management Systems have always been in use in Indian organisations. However, not much is known about them either for their functional advantages or for their long term effects on organisations. This study was undertaken ... -
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 ... -
Performance and prospects for the Indian man - made fibers industry
(1980)This thesis has comprehensively studied various aspects of the man-made fibres industry like demand, cost conditions, profitability, investment and financial decisions. It has also probed in-depth into the factors responsible ... -
Effectiveness of the public distribution channel - the case of controlled cloth distribution
(1979)The study was aimed at determining whether, in the light of the changing nature of products proposed to be distributed to the economically weaker sections of the population the public distribution channel, as it is organized ... -
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 ...