Shareholder value depends on the intrinsic value of a company which, in turn, is driven by sales growth rate, operating profit margin, incremental capital investment, income tax and cost of capital (Rappaport, 1998). Often, there is confusion among professionals as to which of the value drivers...

Capital budgeting is mainly related to long term capital decision of a company and each company adopts a different technique for taking capital investment decision. With the help of this review paper, we have tried to find out the most popular and least popular techniques used by companies in...

This paper posits that “innovation as a competence†depends on individuals and consists of appraisable competencies such as: visioning, ability to generate ideas, internal and external networking, ownership to the organization, stretch mindset, focus on tasks and decision making....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the various modalities of production outsourcing service and compare three different models, namely: standard accounting, theory of constraints (TOC) and linear programming (LP) enhancement of TOC. Design/methodology/approach – This is a...

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...

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,...

A survey was conducted in India to try to understand the factors that affect the productivity of Indian organisations. The perceptions of managers were sought and it is believed that more productive organisations would result from involving managers in the creation, design and maintenance of...

Presents an application of analytic hierarchic process (AHP) for evaluating the sources of supply in a materials management situation. Evaluation of alternative sources is an unstructured decision problem involving multiple factors and attributes generic at different levels. In order to...

The problem is concerned with a single manufacturing enterprise producing varieties of products which are being distributed through a set of regional warehouses. The operations of each regional warehouse in the distribution subsystem is considered to be quasi‐autonomous in the sense that the...