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Working Papers | 1975

Stewart Maturity Scale (Practice Stores)

T. V. Rao

This is a continuation of Technical Report No. 77. There are 5 sets of practice stories. Scoring system is described at the end of each set. Reliability coefficients have to be computed on the basis these stories and the keys supplied in this.

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Working Papers | 1975

New Marketing in a New Environment: Some Thoughts on a Basic Restructuring

Dholakia Nikhilesh

A case is developed for some basic changes in the conceptual repertoire of the marketing discipline in view of the changes in the economic and social environment in India today. It is argued that the adaptation of existing marketing concepts, techniques, and institutions is not enough because these concepts are rooted in a type of economic environment quite different from that prevailing in most Third World countries. Some guidelines are presented along which changes can be effected in the marketing discipline so as to make it more relevant and realistic.

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Working Papers | 1975

Towards Understanding the Values of Future Managers

Saiyadain M S

This study attempts to look at the effect of sex, previous academic background and the annual family income on the value patterns of students who have opted for management education. Barring a few exceptions the results suggests that these biosocial variable do not influence the value patterns. It is concluded that perhaps values are a function of peer culture rather than the conventional biosocial differences.

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Working Papers | 1975

Change and Innovations: A Select Bibliography of books for the Use of Those who are Concerned with Educational Innovations

Pareek Udai

It is a classified annotated bibliography of recent books on various aspects of change and innovation. The bibliography is meant for those who are concerned with educational innovations. The bibliography has been classified into four heads. (A) Social Change: General (theories and review, social and technological change, organisational change, process and planning of change and evaluating change), (B) Innovations, (C) Educational Change and Alternatives (General, Education and Social Change, Alternatives in Education, Process and Process Strategies, Curricular Change, Other Areas), (D) Educational Innovation, (E) Case Studies, (F) Bibliography.

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Working Papers | 1975

An Intemative Procedure for Subset Selection with Ordinal Preferences

Sarin R K

Many decision situations involve the selection of a subset of alternatives (items, projects or actions) when the pay-offs of these decisions are difficult to quantify. An interactive procedure is developed to identify an optimal subset of alternatives when the decision-decision-maker can supply only ordinal preferences over the subsets. The procedure enumerates the subsets of alternatives such that the number of subset comparisons made explicitly by the decision-maker are minimized.

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Working Papers | 1975

Interactive Evaluation and Bound Procedure for Selecting Multiattributed Alternatives

Sarin R K

An evaluation and bound procedure is developed which offers substantial improvement over conventional approach. The improvement is measured in terms of the simplicity of the judgments and the number of judgments that are required from the decision-maker in identifying a preferred decision alternative. An extensive experimental study is reported. Some experimentally verified rules for implementing the procedure on an interactive computer are discussed.

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Working Papers | 1975

Determinants of Inter-Industry Wage Structure in India

Dholakia Bakul H

This paper deals with an analysis of the main factors explaining the inter-industry wage differentials in manufacturing sector of the Indian economy. It examines the basic theoretical framework which can provide a satisfactory explanation of the inter-industry wage structure. Taking the cross-section data on the two-digit level manufacturing industries for two years 1960 and 1964, the regression technique is applied to test alternative models based on the 'expected ability to pay' and the 'technology' hypotheses. The major finding of the study is that the skill-mix and productivity are the two main determinants of inter-industry wage structure in India. The policy implication of this finding is that if a more rational wage structure is to be evolved in the organised manufacturing sector in India, it can be done most effectively by following the policy of modernisation and rationalisation of the existing low productivity industries while envisaging rapid development of the industrial sector during the course of the next decade.

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Working Papers | 1975

Empirical Test of the Marginal Productivity Theory of Wages: The Case of Indian Industries

Dholakia Bakul H and Dholakia Archana R

The paper makes an attempt to test empirically the validity of the marginal productivity hypothesis of wage determination in the case of the Indian economy by using the data on the organised manufacturing sector. The broad methodology followed in the study consists in estimating the Cobb-Douglas production function for Indian industries on the basis of the time series (1946-64) data and also the cross-section data for years 1960 & 1964 and in turn deriving the series of estimated value of marginal product of labour from the estimated production function. By regressing the observed wage rate on the estimated marginal product of labour, the linear relationship between the two is then estimated and tested. A few other test criteria such as the Douglas criterion are also applied. The main finding of the study is that wages paid in Indian manufacturing industries do not reflect the corresponding marginal productivity of labour. Tracing the divergence between the two to the market imperfections, an attempt is also made on an experimental basis to estimate the implicit elasticities of supply of labour in a few selected industries.

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Working Papers | 1975

Relationship of Consumption and Production in Changing Agriculture: A Study in Surat Dist. India - A Summary

Desai B M

This is a summary of the study entitled "Relationship of Consumption and Production in Changing Agricultural: A Study in Surat District, India" published in the occasional paper series of the Technological Change in Agriculture Project at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University. The summary reports the objectives, analytical and methodological approach, data and the main findings of this study. The study assumes that at the beginning of a crop-year the farmers' consumption and production decisions are recursive instead of simultaneous. This is because income from crops accrues only at the end of a crop-cycle, while consumption is continuous. The study further argues that crop-pattern is the single most important determinant of farmers' working capital investment and income decisions. Hence the study considers it more important to explain crop-pattern rather than intensity of a given crop. Finally, both dairy plus non-farm income and consumption being continuous in character, can form net family capital that would influence, among other factors, the crop-pattern. This linkage between family finance and crop-pattern is justified because under conditions of inadequacies of capital market and risks credit may not be perfectly substitutable for internal finance. Considering these assumptions, a four-part econometric model is presented. The four parts are dairy-farming, crop-farming, level and pattern of aggregate consumption. For empirical application of the model, data for agricultural years 1969-70, and 1970-71 from a group of farm-families of Surat District are utilised.

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Working Papers | 1975

Location of Indian Cement Industry

Gupta G S and Patel Kirit

The paper examines four hypotheses about the location of the Indian Cement Industry, viz., (a) its location is not optimum, (b) it is not evenly distributed throughout the country, (c) its location is becoming more and more dispersed over time, and (d) recent changes in its location are towards the optimum location. These hypotheses are tested on the basis of various determinants of location, and on two measures of location, i.e. location quotient and coefficient of localisation. The findings have endorsed all the four hypotheses. In particular, we have found that the location coefficient has declined from around 0.53 in 1960 to around 0.46 in 1965. While Madras and Bihar were the leading States in cement production in 1947, the leading States in this respect in 1971 were Madras, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and so on.

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