Department of Management Studies (MS): Recent submissions
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Satisfaction and Productivity: A Study of Morale and Team Work in Industry With Respect to Productivity
The present study is an attempt at contributing to our understanding of the problems of satisfaction and productivity in the work groups of industry. The cultural setting of India, in which this investigation has been ... -
Dividends, investment, and external financing behaviour of public limited companies in the engineering inndustry in India
The interdependence between dividends, investment, debt, and equity financing has been studied within the context of both the single equation and simultaneous equation models using cross-section data on the Indian engineering ... -
Assessment of factors influencing production and marketing of groundnut and sunflower in Peninsular India
Oilseeds are an important component in India’s agriculture and annually around 24 m. ha are planted to oilseeds with a production of around 24 m. t. In spite of significant growth achieved in oilseed production and ... -
Prediction of bond ratings using statistical and neural networks techniques
In this research work, an attempt has been made to develop a comprehensive statistical and neural networks models lo predict the ratings of Indian manufacturing sector firms based on their financial characteristics. This ... -
Acquisition of technological capability and economic performance in clusters : a study of Belgaum and Coimbatore small scale foundries
Promotion of small-scale industries (SSIs) has been given a lot of importance in developing countries because of the many virtues small industries have, such as, the potential to generate employment, nurturing of ... -
Testing arbitrage pricing theory for the Indian market
Our main objective was to test whether the APT hypotheses as developed by Roll and Ross[ I 980] and further clarified by Cho and Taylor[1987] holds for the Indian market. We also investigate the impact of increasing the ... -
Evaluation of policy parameters, uncertainties and risks in build, operate and transfer (BOT) projects for transport infrastructure development
There is a growing recognition that inadequate transport infrastructure in any country is an impediment to its industrial and economic progress. Governments worldwide are increasingly attempting to involve the private ... -
A Study of an R&D team in an Indian research organization : an ethnographic approach
The research reported in this thesis has attempted to provide a suggestive ethnographic case study of an R&D team in a government-sponsored power research institute in Southern India. This case study has tried to demonstrate ... -
Construction of market index, efficient portfolios and a test for capital market efficiency
Individual investors in the capital market often wish to hold portfolios that "follow the market" but consist of only a small number of scrips. This study addresses the problem of designing a compact portfolio of scrips ... -
Informational Asymmetry in Agency, Bargaining and Market Contexts
The standard micro-economic theory, as epitomized by Walras-Arrow -Debreu’s “General equilibrium theory", assumes that all the economic agents have complete information about their environment. But one comes across many ... -
Geothermal energy utilisation by cascaded model application: a techno-economic analysis-with particular reference to puga.
In any calculation of the world energy resources, the finiteness of fossil fuel resources set the limits. Most authorities are agreed that by the turn of the century there could be a rapidly developing shortfall in the ... -
Electricity supply-demand matching : An integrated approach
Electricity is the most preferred source of energy because of its quality and convenience. This has made the electric power industry one of the fastest-growing sectors in most developing countries. Even though the electric ... -
Exploratory study of the influence of patent latent variables and firm variables on price of auctioned singleton patents
The expected value that a patent might deliver in the market is important information that impacts an organisation抯 revenue. Patent valuation has attracted the attention of researchers since the 1980s. Studies have suggested ... -
Heuristics for routing vehicles for large scale employee transporatation
The considerable potential for vehicle routing methodology for large-scale employee transportation in the Indian context has been the motivating factor for this study. The principal objective of this study has been the ... -
Modelling The Transport Sector In India : A Study On Intermodal Substitution in Passenger Transport
Transportation infrastructure has long been recognized as the sine qua non of rapid economic development. As a predominantly agrarian economy with a vast and growing population spread over an extensive mass of land, India ... -
Global virtual teams : a capability centric model - degree of virtualness in capabilities and predictors
In recent years, globalization has undergone a significant transformation, evolving from the traditional movement of trade and capital to the dynamic exchange of labor and knowledge. This shift has been driven by cost and ... -
Embeddedness in Indian Tech Startups: An Empirical Study of Antecedents, Configuration, and Impact of Networking
Tech startups are integral to a nation’s economic progress due to their immense potential to foster innovation, job creation, exports, and investments. However, tech startups face considerable hurdles in accumulating the ... -
Development of Analytical Solution Methodologies for a Class of Problems in Last Mile Delivery (LMD) of LPG Cylinders (LPG-C) in India
Last Mile Delivery (LMD) relates to all the logistics related activities carried out towards delivery of shipments to the end customers and is considered as the most expensive and time-consuming stage in the supply chain ... -
Mitigating Low-Sample Issues in Portfolio Analysis: Applications of Shrinkage and Gaussian Graphical Models
In manyfinancial applications, such as portfolio allocation, factor modeling, and volat ility estimation, the number of assets often exceeds the number of historical return observations. Estimating the covariance matrix ... -
Financing Strategies of Tech Startups in India: Determinants, Value, and Impact of VC Involvement
In recent years, the increased emphasis on digitalisation aided by advancements in technology has led to the growth of digital startups in India. Compared to non-digital startups, digital startups are those that focus on ...