The paper looks at the growth and transformation of microfinance organisations (MFO) in India. We first, define microfinance and identify its "value attributes". Having chosen only those MFOs that have microfinance as the core, we look at the transformation experiences. To understand the...

This paper presents methodology for the optimal design of a water transmission system, given a source of supply and demand values for water from various zonal divisions in the city. The Linear Programming Model developed considers the detailed design of the water transmission system including...

The need for developing managerial capabilities among executives is being increasingly felt and attended to in Indian Industry in the recent past. Mechanisms like performance appraisal, potential appraisal, training, OD, performance feedback and counselling are being designed to facilitate...

Of late Organizational buying process has emerged as one of the most important fields of study in Marketing since the organizations are the single most important segment of buyers. Since the quantum of organizational buying is huge and varied, naturally the buying process is highly complex and...

We describe the application of a nested logit function for modeling brand choice using household transaction data from the Indian market. This is unique since it is one of the first attempts to integrate disparate consumer information sources available at various levels of aggregation towards...

Although the integration-responsiveness framework has been used extensively in the international business and strategy literature, empirical validation of the framework has largely focussed on the strategy and structure of MNCs in response to the environmental pressures confronted by the firm....

Two hundred nine MBA (Masters in Business Administration) students of a management institute rated their leadership styles and influence tactics as a part of their classroom exercise. The findings indicated that they preferred to adopt nurturant-task (NT) and participative styles more frequently...

Because of its narrow and negative perspective of safeguarding the interests of only poor consumers against unethical practices of the private traders, consumer cooperation in India seems to have failed, except probably in some isolated pockets. A number of social welfare functions like poverty...

Decentralised industrial sectors are important features of the economies of most of the developing countries. This paper provides a contextual definition to the key words “decentralised” and “sector”, explains the rationale for setting up decentralised sectors, and illustrates the...

Gantt chart (or bar chart) is a popular tool for developing and displaying job schedules. This paper focuses on software that provides a Gantt chart interface to enable users develop job schedules interactively. Here the Gantt chart is not merely a display format; the chart is used to develop...