Department of Management Studies (MS): Recent submissions
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Topics In Demand management
(2011-02-02)This thesis is divided into two parts. Part I deals with demand management. For goods with no substitutes, under supply constraints, fairness considerations introduce negative externalities and lead to a market failure. ... -
Scheduling Problems With Discrete And Batch Processor Machines In Automobile Gear Manufacturing
(2011-02-02)The economy of a developing nation like India depends on various sectors such as: Agriculture, Commerce and Industries, Finance, Communication and Information Technology, etc. The manufacturing industries play a key role ... -
Modeling Private Information In Bilateral Relationships For Revenue Management
(2010-12-01)This thesis addresses two issues which arise in the context of airline revenue management. In the first part of the thesis, we develop an incentive mechanism to prevent revenue leakage caused by customers buying down. In ... -
Studies On Urban Sprawl And Spatial Planning Support System For Bangalore, India
(2010-09-30)Urban sprawl is the uncontrolled and uncoordinated outgrowth of towns and cities. Noting the various studies, the pattern of urban sprawl is characterised by using spatial metrics based on the extent of paved surface or ... -
A Study On The Motivational System Of Scientists In Relation To Performance And Its Consequences
(2010-09-22)Indian scientific organizations have experienced a tremendous growth in the last few years. Research Institutes have been carrying out scientific research in order to render ser vices in the frontier technologies. These ... -
Batch Processsor Scheduling - A Class Of Problems In Steel Casting Foundries
(2010-09-15)Modern manufacturing systems need new types of scheduling methods. While traditional scheduling methods are primarily concerned with sequencing of jobs, modern manufacturing environments provide the additional possibility ... -
Analysis Of Productivity Growth In Indian Electronics Industry : Significance Of Management Decision Variables As Determinants
(2010-09-03)The present study is an attempt to analyze the impact of changing policy regime during the liberalization era on the behaviour of 81 sample firms in Indian electronics industry in terms of factor productivities. We categorise ... -
Global TNCs And Local SMEs In Bangalore: Subcontracting, Innovation And Economic Performance
(2010-08-23)Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are one of the principal driving forces in the development of an economy because of its significant contribution in terms of number of enterprises, employment, output and exports in most ... -
Leveraging Resources For Strategic Organizational Renewal A Co-Evolutionary Perspective
(2010-07-23)Multiple strategic discontinuities of the constantly changing business environment are driving organizations, both large and small to seek new ways of conducting business to create wealth. The only way organizations can ... -
Do-it Yourself Market In India : Exploring Development And Servicing Of Demand For Products Related To Household Painting And Carpentry
(2010-07-13)Do-it-yourself (DIY) is the practice of household members undertaking home improvement or maintenance on their own, instead of hiring professional help. While DIY is a substantial and steadily growing cultural and economic ... -
A Stakeholder-Based Planning Framework For The Gherkin Agricultural Export Zone In Karnataka
(2010-04-08)In 2001, the Government of India announced a program for the establishment of Agricultural Export Zones (AEZ). This is the first national program in India to adopt a regional approach to promoting exports of agricultural ... -
Heuristic Methods For Job Scheduling In A Heat Treatment Shop To Maximize Kiln Utilization
(2009-06-24)Scheduling in the context of manufacturing systems has become increasingly impor- tant in order for organizations to achieve success in dynamic and competitive scenarios. Scheduling can be described as allocation of ... -
Collaborative Boundary Crossing Behaviours Of Product Development Teams : Role Of Direct And Indirect Factors
(2009-06-05)Emerging markets are fraught with uncertainty, diverse global players, rapid technological change, wide-spread price wars, and seemingly endless reorganization (Ilinitch, 1996). These changes have presented challenges to ... -
Performance Evaluation Of Skill-Based Routing In An Inbound Call Center Using Stochastic Petri Nets
(2009-05-28)Call centers have become a preferred and prevalent means for companies to communicate with their customers. As a consequence of this, the call center industry has seen a huge growth in both volume and scope in the last ... -
Cellular Services Market In India : Predictive Models And Assessing Interventions
(2009-04-27)The Objective of this thesis is to address some interesting problems in the Indian cellular services market. The first problem we address relates to identifying important change points that marked the evolution of the ... -
Dynamic Control Mechanism For Customer Buy Down Behavior
(2009-04-24)Revenue Management (RM) has become one of the most successful application areas of Operation Research. What started off as an obscure practice among few airlines in U.S in early seventies, has attained the status of ... -
Impact Of Option Introduction On Different Characteristics Of Underlying Stocks In NSE, India
(2009-04-24)Financial Derivatives are one of the most popular and emerging innovations in the field of financial engineering. Since their inception, there has been a phenomenal growth in the volumes of derivatives traded all over the ... -
Deterministic Scheduling Of Parallel Discrete And Batch Processors
(2009-03-03)Scheduling concerns the allocation of limited resources to tasks over time. In manufacturing systems, scheduling is nothing but assigning the jobs to the available processors over a period of time. Our research focuses on ... -
Novel Approaches For Demand Forecasting In Semiconductor Manufacturing
(2009-02-25)Accurate demand forecasting is a key capability for a manufacturing organization, more so, a semiconductor manufacturer. Many crucial decisions are based on demand forecasts. The semiconductor industry is characterized by ... -
A Study Of Organizational Rightsizing : Actors, Processes And Outcome
(Indian Institute of Science, 2007-06-06)The pressure for economic integration has been reinforced by developments in technology, changes in market structures and the emergence of transnational corporations. Rightsizing has emerged as a critical process in this ...