Organization identity is shaped by multiple factors. This shaping leads to transformation of the organization. An organization transforms its own identity with the help of free energy. It can also mobilize captive or frozen intrinsic energy into free energy. Each of these energies is driven by...

I worked on modeling integrated steel plants in India (as an analyst) and in the USA (as a doctoral student). The following factors influence the successful OR/MS practice: positioning of OR/MS in Operations and not in Research and Development, selecting the right problem, emphasising on problem...

The global dialogue on diversity particularly mediated by global institutions has been biased against the perspectives and philosophies evolved by the cultures in the developing countries. It is a different matter that seeds of change for sustainable development may exist with in these cultures....

This paper discusses in aggregate terms the performance of the formal rural financial market (RFM) in India. Considering three different aspects of this market several criteria are applied for this purpose. Thee three aspects are: (1) Sectoral mobilization of deposits and sector’s contribution...

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...

After a sharp decline in 1974-75, consumption of fertilizer increased substantially in the subsequent years. In fact, the growth in absolute terms registered during 1976-77 (and also likely to register in 1977-78) is larger than during any year prior to 1976-77. Such an impressive growth has...

Growing environmental turbulence has made the challenge to keep customers satisfied all the more difficult. Corporate mortality of firms including those favoured by customers is not under control. There seems to be conceptual and methodological weaknesses in the approaches currently used by...

This paper is really a modification of a paper by Diamantaras and Thomson (1990). In that paper, the no-envy concept due to Foley (1967) was refined to accommodate some kind of a radial) no-envy comparison, inspired by Chaudhuri (19986). Simply put, each person compares his/her own consumption...

Designing institutions that coordinate expectations of different classes of rural producers in a manner in which income disparities are reduced; common property is better managed and in fact rejuvenated (if possible); and redundancy for coping with uncertain contingencies are continually created; is...

With a renewed emphasis on Management of Quality, the question of collecting and quantifying Cost of Quality (COQ) has assumed special significance. It is realized that organizations intending to launch quality improvement programs need to first deploy a suitable COQ system to support and direct...