DSpace at Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode: Recent submissions

  • Ready Mix Concrete Business: Operational VS Strategic Choices 
    Pillai, Anil Kumar; Ranjan, Varghese (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    This case study examines how a firm faces pricing and logistics issues in an uncertain environment ridden by substitute products, raw materials shortage, legal and social adversities. In an article titled “Price as stimulus ...
  • Public Private Partnership (PPP) Approach - for sustainable development fo APMCs in Gujarat 
    Patel, Amit; Sharma, Mahendra; Pandya, Maurvi (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    The paper is focusing on finding the lacunas of existing APMC Act, current trading practices and availability of infrastructure. It also suggests the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model for creating a competitive advantage ...
  • Organizational Politics in a Global Environment - Can You Survive in the Cesspool ? 
    Gopinath, Mohan; Gopinath, Chinnam Nayar (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Sometimes, it is felt that being good at organizational politics is a form of literacy, like computer literacy: not much good in and of itself, but just try ignoring it. We think one has to acknowledge that the political ...
  • OD Intervensions for Sustainable Excellence in Higher Education 
    Verghese, Annie (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Some 25 years ago came the birth of another discipline, called organizational development, the goal of which was to focus on the gap that exists between where a group or organization is and where they would like to be. ...
  • Motives for Collaborative Arrangements - The Case of Cyber Media 
    Mital, Amita (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Cooperative activity between firms has become necessary due to high uncertainty and turbulence in the competitive sphere. The limitations and inadequacies of individual firms in competing in increasingly global markets, ...
  • Rural Village to Global Village: An Innovative Journey 
    Tellas, Aby; Karthikeyan, A. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    In the cut throat competition dictated by LPG era has made India to become part of global village, proven by the rush of the global companies’ entry. The early ones primarily served theurban market, after realizing saturation ...
  • Medical Tourism Industry - Advantage India 
    Venkata Krishna Prasad, C.B. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Traveling abroad for health is not a new phenomenon. Medical tourism is actually thousands of years old. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, ...
  • Measuring Global Competitiveness through Index 
    Nayak, Keyur M. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    The rapid changes in the context of the process of economic reform, globalization and liberalization have created greater compulsions for us to be productive and competitive than ever before. With rapid advancement in ...
  • Measuring and predicting competitiveness of Indian firms in Pharmaceutical Industry 
    Bhatnagar, Nikhil; Garg, Ankit; Rana, Anshul (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Traveling abroad for health is not a new phenomenon. Medical tourism is actually thousands of years old. In ancient Greece, pilgrims and patients came from all over the Mediterranean to the sanctuary of the healing god, ...
  • Managing the People Dimension of Globalization 
    Murlidhar, S. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
  • Managing Maritime Infrastructure: Lessons from UAE and China 
    Chudasama, K.M.; Kota, Sudhakar (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    This article intends to focus on port development/management aspects, because experience has shown that port development does not always live up to expectations. The following analysis will attempt to pinpoint some of the ...
  • Limited Impact of ERP on the Indian Subsidiary Case of Osram India Limited 
    Lal, Stuti (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    A one-phrase explanation for the impact of ERP would be Simplifying Complex Process. ERP has a significant impact right from the time it is conceived in the organization. It paves way for restructuring which would not have ...
  • Leveraging Knowledge Management for Organizational Innovation and Creativity 
    Srivastava, Anil; Gupta, Raj Karan (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    In the past industrial era the rate of change was slow and also predictable and competitive environments were not as intense and changed more slowly. At that time innovation was desirable and competitive advantages mainly ...
  • Leadership Ladder: Business transformation though high trust leadership 
    Nair, Priya; Pandian, S.; Bhattacharyya, Sanghamitra (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Leading a transformation in the contemporary business environment, one that is charged with frenzied competition is perhaps the most challenging of all assignments. The complexity of this task is enhanced on account of a ...
  • A Journey of Continuous Success and Excellence: A Case of Tunaround of UP State Road Transport Corporation, Lucknow 
    Makkar, Urvashi (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    UP State Road Transport Corporation (UPSRTC), an organization under the control of Government of UP, has been under the process of a complete change, both soft as well as hard, during last three years. It has not been a ...
  • Is The Diamond Sparkling ? Marine Industry in Kozhikode - A Case Study 
    Sasikala, G. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    The first part of the paper deals with the peculiarities of the marine industry, with special reference to the traditional fishing practiced in different regions. For analyzing the firm’s competitive advantage, - At least ...
  • Irula Tribe, Ecology and Business Innovation - A Case Study 
    Dharamarajan, S. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Indian business environment is facing rigorous challenges and fostering drastic changes under the new economic regime. The implication of economic reforms has altered the basic network of the economy and there is a persistent ...
  • Internet based viral marketing for global competition: The road ahead 
    Patel, Naresh (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    The Internet has become the new battlefield for marketing competitors. No longer an experimental media vehicle for computer geeks, it is mainstream and turning into the jumping-offpoint of creative exploration in marketing.
  • Innovative Strategies for a Dynamic Economy-Building a Globally Competitive India 
    Brinda, Kalyani. P.R.; Umarani, L.; Sankar Narayana, P.R. (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    Globalization has fundamentally changed the game of business. Strategic frameworks developed for the analysis of purely domestic business necessarily fall short in the international business context. Managers and business ...
  • Innovation: A DNA of Organizational Success 
    Agarwal, Reena (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, 2007-05-19)
    It should be noted that although the collective term ‘creativity and innovation’ is routinely used, and the individual words ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are often used synonymously, the two words actually refer to two ...