Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct an empirical model of innovation as a competence of individuals and validate it. The model takes into consideration the multidimensional characteristics of individuals and the parameters of surrounding ecosystem and establishes their...

Illustrates a two‐level hierarchical system structure for solving the production planning problems of a steel manufacturing system. The structure is basically a goal‐diffusion mechanism between two levels. At the lower level a goal programming problem is solved and at the higher level a...

Studies the justification problems of automated manufacturing systems (AMS) by using a multiple‐criteria decision making (MCDM) approach such as analytic hierarchy process (AHP). An example from Indian manufacturing has been studied. Strategic, technological and social impacts have been...

An in‐depth survey of production management in India: production, as pivotal function in any industrial organisation, seeks to achieve productivity and profitability and holds the key to survival in the present competitive world of business. To meet the goals of a nation, production managers...

This paper discusses the reasons of failure of TQM Implementation in Indian Public Sector Undertaking. Based on the weaknesses observed in the existing systems and practices of implementation, a system structural model of TQM Implementation is proposed. Based on the experiential learning through...

Project management is emerging as a rapidly growing discipline in India. It is appropriate at this stage of globalization of Indian economy to study the current practices and the state of perceptual premises of project managers. This study makes the first attempt to outline the opinions,...