To put in common man’s language, Internet is a global network of computers; all of them speak same language. The real power of Internet is that it is available to anyone with a computer and a telephone. As Internet is proliferating like a web through out the globe, so will the complexity of...

Becoming an entrepreneur and playing the role of a job creator calls for crossing many milestones. During the journey, they create certain perception about entrepreneurship which is varying; some find it sour while some others find it sweet. In every step of the entrepreneurial journal, he has...

This paper presents a systems based approach for the city logistics decision making. Using this approach, we present the layout of a simulation model called CILOSIM ( CI TY‐ LO GISTICS‐ SIM ULATION). CILOSIM encapsulates three sub‐models namely Goods to Vehicle Assignment model, Goods...

Demand variability increases when it moves downstream to upstream in a supply chain is called “Bullwhip effect”. The paper describes the impact of two different information sharing strategies decentralized and centralized under two different demand forecasting policies (Moving Average and...

Rapid rate of change in technologies, markets and other environmental factors make “integration of marketing and operations” as one of the most crucial decision for business survival and performance in today’s world. Integration between functions and departments is an important strategy...

The objective of this paper is to examine whether there are significant variations in the profile of debt‐financing as a result of differences in industry, size and age group of the sample corporate enterprises in India. It also ascertains the trend in debt financing practices among the...

The purpose of the current study is to identify the factors affecting work‐family conflict among women executives. The relationship of personal and organizational characteristics to work‐family conflict has also been studied. The study is based on the responses of 271 women executives...

The problem of portfolio optimization involves selecting appropriate stocks for investment by maximising the returns from the portfolio at a pre‐specified level of risk. The current approaches center around Markowitz’s mean variance optimization method that suffers from several pitfalls like...

Reverse logistics is an issue that has attracted the attention of researchers since the last decade due to an ever‐increasing increased awareness about economic, environmental and social benefits associated with them. In this paper, we report a case study of an Indian paper manufacturing...

Today, information technology (IT) is of utmost importance to organization’s competitiveness and viability. But various empirical studies give different results about IT and productivity in organization. This project focuses on relation between IS investment and organizational productivity,...