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Working Papers | 1978

Managerial and Organizational Determinants of the Performance of Indian Corporate Public Sector Enterprises

Khandwalla P N

Literature on the performance, control, and management of the central government non-departmental enterprises has been surveyed. A model of the managerial and organizational determinants of enterprise performance is developed and a number of testable hypotheses have been generated.

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Working Papers | 1978

The Nagarsheth of Ahmedabad: The History of an Urban Institution in Gujarat City

Tripathi Dwijendra and Mehta M J

The paper claims that nagarshethship in Ahmedabad was an innovation in urban institution. Challenging the popularly held view that the institution began with Emperor Jehangir conferring this title on a principal merchant, the authors emphasize that the institution had a more spontaneous beginning and evolved gradually. It became hereditary after a Moghul emperor accorded official sanction to it in 1732. However, the rise of more formal institutions and the growth of industrial leadership after the establishment of the British rule, the institution became superfluous and gradually disappeared. Regretting that the conventional periodization of Indian history has hampered the study of institutional histyory, the authors plead for problem oriented rather than period based research.

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Working Papers | 1978

Full Information Based Composite Indices - A Better Alternative to Principal Components

Misra P N

The problem of constructing composite indices has most often been tackled by using principal components in several disciplines. The approach, however, has some vital weaknesses. The paper suggests a method of constructing composite indices based upon full information contained in the data set. The method is also free from major defects of the method of principal components. The proposed method is amenable to simple statistical tests and provides a natural extension of the concept of centroid to statistically dependent constituent variables. The method is definitely a better substitute of the methods of principal components and factor analysis.

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Working Papers | 1978

Perception of Computers in the Indian Industry: A Study of Image and Attitudes in Two Textile Mills

Pareek Udai and Ghose Amitabha

This is an exploratory study to develop a scale to measure attitude towards computers and test some hypotheses about relationship between some background factors and personality variables with perception of and attitude towards computers. Data were collected only from two units. Since there was no difference in the trend, pooled data have been analysed. Perception of computers was studied by using two methods. Preferred areas of the use of computers and reasons for non-use of computers were also studied. No relationship was found between personality factors and perception of and attitude towards computers, excepting in the case of some aspects of self-disclosure and ambiguity tolerance.

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Working Papers | 1978

Wage Structure in Consumer Goods and Capital Goods Industries in India

Dholakia Bakul H

An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the wage structure in consumer goods industries in relation to that in capital goods industries in the light of the two major hypotheses, viz., 'the expected ability to pay hypothesis' and 'the technology hypothesis' which constitute the basic theoretical framework for explaining the inter-industry wage differentials in the manufacturing sector. The analysis is based on the cross-section data relating to the industries classified at the three-digit level of aggregation available from ASI 1975-76. The main findings of the study are: (a) There are significant differences in the inter-industry wage structure between the capital goods industries and the consumer goods industries in Indian manufacturing sector. On an average, wage rate in the consumer goods industries is lower than the wage rate in the capital goods industries and the former shows a much greater degree of absolute as well as relative wage differentials as compared to the latter; and (b) The inter-industry wage structure in capital goods industries is explained primarily by the corresponding inter-industry differences in the expected ability to pay, whereas the inter-industry wage structure in consumer goods industries is influenced also by the existing inter-industry differences in technological levels.

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Working Papers | 1978

Development Administration as Social Marketing

Dholakia Nikhilesh

Development Administration has come on its own as an area of practice and study. It is differentiated from conventional administration by its emphasis on social and economic change. In the field of management, the concept of Social Marketing has been advanced and applied in many non-business contexts. Social Marketing is very similar to development administration in its aims and approaches. Social Marketing in fact has been presented as an approach for planning social change. This paper examines the relationships between Development Administration and Social Marketing. The commonalties of the two are discussed using a comparative framework. On balance it appears that Social Marketing and Development Administration (as usually practised) are sufficiently different so as not to allow fruitful interchange. This paper makes suggestions regarding how Social Marketing can be adapted to the needs of Development Administration.

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Working Papers | 1978

Identification of Project: A Systems View

Pathak H N

This paper aims at integrating areas of formal planning system and decision-making with project identification of an entrepreneur, a development agency or corporation. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) Analysis of the development process, 2) the major factors and forces which provide some explanation for industrial and entrepreneurial development in India during the recent past, 3) corporate experience in the field of environmental scanning and analysis in relation to strategic and entrepreneurial decisions. As an outcome of this, a conceptual framework is evolved which should be useful to intending entrepreneurs and development corporations.

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Working Papers | 1978

Formulation of District Credit Plans by Commercial Banks: Some Observations

Srivastava Uma Kant

The paper briefly reviews the process of preparation of the district credit plans and the deficiencies of these plans from the view point of their implementation. To provide more insights into the problems in implementing the action plan based on credit plans, six selected credit plans have been critically analysed. The suggestions for further work on the action plans are made. These suggestions need to be incorporated if the action plans are to be made implementable.

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Working Papers | 1978

Testing for and Estimation of Models Subject to Multicollinearity

Gupta G S and Singh Devi

The regression method for analysing changes in variables over the time and cross-section has become very popular in the present day world. The method is undoubtedly very powerful but it is based on several assumptions and if any of its assumptions do not hold good for a particular sample, its results are unacceptable. Unfortunately, many of the users of this technique are unaware of its limitations or/and of the methods of correcting for them. The paper discusses the testing procedures and the appropriate methods of estimation of models which are subject to multicollinearity, a serious problem of regression analysis. The demand for cotton textiles' function is estimated from the time series data of the Indian economy for illustration purposes.

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Working Papers | 1978

The Pedagogy of behaviour Simulation

Pareek Udai

The paper proposes a three-dimensional conceptual framework for understanding the pedagogical methods. It discusses the characteristics of behaviour simulation and the relevant concepts of learning for these. Various dimensions of behaviour simulation as a pedagogical device are discussed including types of behaviour simulations, elements in behaviour simulation and how to use such simulation. Various studies on pedagogical value of behaviour simulation have been reviewed. Various steps for designing behaviour simulation are suggested. The paper mentions important resource material in this area.

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