This study on 16 small industry entrepreneurs (9 successful + 7 unsuccessful) focused on identifying some personal background attitudinal, organizational and managerial variables that discriminate the successful group from the unsuccessful group. Success in entrepreneurship was identified...

Prospective job seekers judged attractiveness of jobs described y sequences of adjectives. Job descriptions were prepared from a 24 design with serial position as factors and positive and negative pieces of information as the two levels. The serial position curves prepared according to the logic...

Long sequences of daily rainfall are often needed for simulation. These (when available) are cumbersome to input. Also in many cases historical data are to short to include all possible patterns. Hence the need for synthetic data. Discovering the stochastic structure underlying daily rains is...

A warehouse with a storage capacity of n units is considered. While the units of input arrive according to a general stationary point process  (t), the stored items are cleared with the arrival of a bulk order which is assumed to arrive according to another general stationary point process...

Tomatoes are produced and consumed year round. Wood carton is the dominant mode of packaging for produce coming to APMC Market, Ahmedabad from out-of-state. It has been known for long however that wood carton suffers from many shortcomings. It is unable to protect the produce sufficiently...

In the context of transformations taking place in the environment, organizations are initiating major changes in their structure, design and human processes. These changes generate a great deal of anxiety and apprehension amongst different levels in the cadre. It appears that the middle level...

Recent advances in our understanding of capital structure decisions have not yet made their mark upon our capital budgeting techniques and practices. This paper attempts to bridge this gap. In doing this, it offers a surprisingly simple approach for managers to follow in marking financial...

Based on a sample of Medical Representatives representing a cross-section of pharmaceutical companies, this study had two major objectives: 1. Identification of the significant determinants of role conflict, role clarity, quality of supervision, job tension and job satisfaction; 2. Investigation...

The event study is one of the most powerful techniques for studying market efficiency. Over a period of time, researchers have made several modifications to the original methodology of Fama, Fisher, Jensen and Roll (1969). Nevertheless, the current methodology continues to suffer from several...

The ensuing economic liberalization in the country has been a rapid increase in licensing and joint venture arrangements involving Indian firms. For long term growth, the domestic firms will have to develop mechanisms and strategies to learn from these tie-ups. Available literature suggests...