Application of Total Quality Management (TQM) approach has played an important role in the survival and growth of many industries. One of the major reasons for dismal performance of many Indian organizations can be attributed to the fact that they have not been able to put strategy in place to...

Application of Total Quality Management (TQM) approach has played an important role in the survival and growth of many industries. Indian automobile sector has also adopted TQM path but it is still a player of little consequence in the global auto market. One of the major reasons for dismal...

The paper presents the initiative taken by leading automobile Original Equipment Manufacturer (oem) XYZ in India for their implementation of Toyota Production System (TPS) to meet competitor’s challenge and its efforts to benchmark against its principle located in Japan. The paper deals with a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine compatibility groups of different fruits and vegetables that can be stored and transported together based upon their requirements for temperature, relative humidity, odour and ethylene production. Pre-cooling which is necessary to prepare the...

Purpose: Distribution and retail supply of electricity is the most important cog in the power sector value chain. Despite several reforms, most of the Discoms are facing huge financial losses and resorting to a tariff hike which may not be a viable solution. The purpose of this paper is to...

Purpose The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the efficiency of glass firms in India. Design/methodology/approach Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been employed to study the technical, scale and super efficiency measures of glass firms in India. Findings Major findings of DEA...

Purpose PE and DCF are two popular valuation methodologies used by analysts to derive target price forecasts while performing equity research. Recent studies in developed markets show that analysts using sophisticated models like DCF produce more accurate target price forecasts as compared to...

Purpose The aim of the study was to highlight the role of structural equation modeling in scale development and the problems faced by researchers in developing the scale using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Design/methodology/approach The study thoroughly reviews and analyses the literature...