Most studies of firm turnaround have typically examined the response of different stakeholders to organizational decline and turnaround. Network theory provides a unique opportunity to extend this stream of research to understand and examine the decline and turnaround of organizations. This...

In an earlier paper (Alagh, Munish, 2011) it was shown that macro economics matters in agriculture. The relevance of understanding the impact of macro-economic policy on agriculture was outlined, A forecasting exercise detailed the structure and response of supply to prices in the non foodgrain...

Use of clinical laboratory test results in diagnostic deci¬sion making has become an integral part of clinical medicine. More than 60-70% of the most important decisions on admission, discharge, and medication are based on laboratory test results. With this high degree of influence, the...

During the last two decades Indian agriculture has been facing major challenges like deceleration in growth rate, inter-sectoral and inter-regional equity, declining input efficiency, degradation of natural resources, etc. with consequent adverse effects on food and nutritional security, food...

Literature on organizational learning has mainly focused on intra-organizational learning with little emphasis on inter-organizational learning. Organizations engage in strategic collaborations with other organizations. To realise the full potential of such relationships, it is very important...

A synthesized version of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) and its possible applications in Management problems is presented. The main contribution of the paper is its simple description of a somewhat complex statistical process for the understanding of the beginners in this domain. It acts as...

Ad-hoc networks consisting entirely of simple mobile phones can be used to deploy village level telephony. We investigate a novel application for such networks – a peer-to peer community radio service. We envision a system, where any user in the network is equally empowered to generate and...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is a NP-hard problem concerned with the arrangement of facilities of given lenghs on a line so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all the pairs of facilities. The SRFLP and its special cases often arise while modeling a large...

Blowout Preventers (BOPs) and choke manifolds are key pieces of drilling rig equipment to prevent the uncontrolled release of potentially hazardous formation fluids to surface. The blowout prevention testing problem is that of testing BOP valves to check if they are functional or not. Several...

The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is the problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, while minimizing the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. The problem is known to be NP-hard. In this paper, we present a neighborhood search heuristic...