Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Performance variation across industries: role of ownership, trade and market structure
(1992)Performance of industry has been of concern to academicians as well as to practitioners and politicians. Industrial growth has been considered essential to improve the standard of living through higher productivity of ... -
Managing the technology purchase decision process in the Indian public sector
(1982)This thesis attempted to structure precisely the decision process in ten technology purchase decisions made between 1969-80 in one petrochemical industry in the Indian public sector. Based on literature from Technology ... -
The Relative Importance of life style and Demograhic / Socio-Economic variables in Explainig ownership of consumer durable products
(1991)The main objective of the study was: To know whether life style variables play a role in explaining ownership of consumer durable products, and to examine the relative importance of life style and demographic/socio—economic ... -
Political processes in grievance resolution: An empirical study
(1994)From its origins in law, the scope of the concept of "due process“ (the idea of procedural as well as substantive rights of citizens) has expanded to include work organizations. In the industrial organizations, considerations ... -
Emerging patterns of transnational activity in India: a study of foreign collaboration intentions in the 1990s
(1999)The context: Policy changes initiated in July 1991, have seen the number of foreign collaboration intentions into India approved by the ministry of industry more than double every year to average 1,827 in number during ... -
Understanding hospital performance: an empirical study
(1994)The different categories of hospitals in India (government, voluntary, for-profit), have different ideologies which have traditionally governed their ways of functioning. With the contexts they work in getting increasingly ... -
Interorganizational co-ordination in development programms: a case on integrated child development services
(1989)In recent years integrated approach has been adopted and multi-agency effort envisaged in the implementation of government development programmes in sectors like agriculture, health, education. Some of these programmes are ... -
Developing competitiveness of Indian floriculture industry: a study based on Israeli experience
(1998)Countries in the present world-order are compelled to compete with each other; not only for development, but also for their existence. The new unfolding world 'order' with developments in international trade, moving towards ... -
International competitiveness of selected Indian Industries - an empirical analysis
(1995)Rationale and Objectives. The recent inflow and projections of foreign investments into India indicate that the international investing community views India as a, potentially high growth economy, whose industries are ... -
Managing contract farming in agro industry
(2004)Although India has made substantial progress in terms of total production in the agricultural sector, the problems of low productivity and poor quality of output remains the major causes for concern. In the era of ... -
Manufacturing futures: an empirical study of outsourcing in the automobile industry
(1995)Outsourcing is becoming an important element in world-class manufacturing. It is defined as the process of identifying long-term reliable sources capable of supporting multiple value addition partnerships activities like ... -
Three essays in monetary economics
(2006)This thesis studies the monetary economics of the Indian economy in the form of three related essays. Starting from Friedman's constant money growth rate prescription & Kydiand & Prescott's Noble winning work on time ... -
Determinants of entry in the Indian manufacturing sector: 1993-2000
(2002)Industrial Organisation literature has a long tradition of analyzing determinants of entry in the industrial sector. In most cases the purpose of such analyses has been to identify factors that result in barriers to entry. ... -
Determinants of knowledge flows and firm performance in industrial clusters
(2006)Industrial clusters have been in existence for more than a century. Numerous explanations have been provided for the existence and continued dominance of industrial clusters. Most of the explanations before 1990 focused ... -
Future energy transitions in India: an assessment of new and renewable energy technologies
(2006)Energy systems development has always depended on choices made by consumers, producers, governments and societies. Historically, the choices are made in favour of those alternatives that are most satisfactory in terms of ... -
Investment, profits and capacity utilisation in the Indian cement industry
(1984)This thesis studies various indicators of performance in the lndian Cement Industry like investment, profit and profitability and capacity utilization. An attempt was also made to explain the behavior of these performance ... -
Economic factors influencing the export performance of indian private corporate sector - pre and post liberalisation
(2001)The Background for present Research: The classical theory postulates maximization of profits as the basis for a firm's behavior. Later developments have considered other basic objectives like 'maximization of sales ... -
Interdependence structure of Indian financial markets: an empirical investigation
(2000)The financial sector reforms in India have ushered in wide ranging changes in the financial markets in India. Beginning in the mid-nineties, many of the barriers that had hitherto restricted the flow of funds across the ... -
Integrated assessment of energy and environment future: linking policy to implementation
(2003)Integrated assessment combines knowledge from different disciplines to analyse real world problems to provide solutions to decision-makers. In recent years,integrated assessment has attracted the attention of policymakers ... -
Implications of electricity reforms on technology and environment
(2005)India has initiated economic reforms in the early nineties with the aim of globalization of the economy and making it competitive in the international market. Reforms in the electricity sector were initiated encouraging ...