Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Banking on human beings: action research in human resource development and organization development in a large organization
(1983)Changing organizations to suit their socially desirable purposes while furthering humanistic values for its members is a growing challenge to the theory and practice of behavioural sciences. The task appears to be all the ... -
Impact of product on the life styles of its consumers: the case of domestic liquefied petroleum gas
(1980)Many of the impacts which marketing actions create on the environment transcend the typical marketers’ interests. These impacts are are being only recently recognized under the banner of ‘Macro-marketing’. There has been, ... -
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 ... -
Introducing management control systems for construction projects
(1985)The construction industry plays an important role in the overall economy, social growth and development by its contribution to gross domestic product and employment. It is estimated that during the Sixth plan, the industry ... -
Organizational commitment and human resource management: a study of mangers in cooperatives
(1985)The purpose of this study was: (a) to find the relationship between Organizational Commitment (OC) and several characteristics of the Human Resource Management (HRM) mechanisms, viz., Recruitment, Selection, Compensation, ... -
Relationship between corporate strategy, structure, and the personnel function
(1983)More and more organizations are feeling the need for a more effective utilization of their human resources. One thus sees that the personnel function has moved from a maintenance role and the line function to a corporate ... -
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 ... -
Technical innovation in the manufacturing enterprise: context and process
(1982)This study is about the micro bases of technical change. Strategic action at innovating technology within the manufacturing enterprise is one prominent route to aggregate technical change. There is, however, little ... -
Operational planning for large State Road Transport Corporation
(1982)This dissertation addresses to operational planning problem for large public road transport networks typically operated by the state road transport corporations (SRTCs). The problem involves several operational constraints ... -
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 ... -
Indian oil industry: a historical study with special reference to the strategic role of government of India
(1980)Energy is important for any productive system. Oil besides being an energy source, is also an industrial raw material. Oil is vital for industrial growth, economic development as well as for military strength, especially ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
Assessment of the electricity reforms: restructuring improving access and policies for the future
(2005)The frenzy generated by the throwing open of the generation sector in 1991 by the amendment of the electricity statute has largely subsided with the experiences in Orissa and the prolonging problems in Dhabol. Hence ... -
Production planning and scheduling in multi-stage batch production environment
(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 ... -
Energy security in South Asia: integrating the primary energy and electricity markets
(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 ... -
Some issues in pricing bulk electricity
(1994)Power supply sector in India has been undergoing significant change during the last several years. The monopoly of the vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs) is yielding place to large scale electricity ... -
Dynamics of energy and electricity markets: policy analysis for India
(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 ... -
Exports and economic growth in India: - an empirical investigation
(1993)It has often been argued that the external sector constitutes a small proportion of India’s economy (imports and exports as a proportion of GNP were 8.2 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively for 1990/91), and hence trade ... -
Internationalization process of industrial firms: a study on the auto-component manufacturers in India and Canada
(1999)Recent studies have observed the increasing participation of firms from developing countries in international trade. They have significantly increased the size and scope of their activities across a range of industries ...