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Making The Crippled Dance: A Model For Rejuvenating The Ailing Public Sector Enterprises
Krishna Kumar
Many public sector enterprises, some owned by the central government and others owned by the state governments, are facing a crisis of survival today. This is on account of intense competition setting in by the opening of Indian economy on the one hand and the reluctance of the respective governments to support them and fund their mounting losses on the other. The concerned governments want to privatise them or wind up, if they are not performing well. Have the public sector enterprises, established over 50 years period lost their relevance now? Have they reached a point that government must think of disowning the ones not performance well? Is there a case for developing new approaches to manage public sector enterprises is general and the ailing ones in particular? This paper addresses these issues based upon intensive studies of several public sector enterprises and suggests certain measures to meet the challenge.
2000-01-01T00:00:00ZExit or Renaissance: Strategic Challenge to Public Sector Enterprises
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Exit or Renaissance: Strategic Challenge to Public Sector Enterprises
Krishna Kumar
Public Sector in India was created to take the economy to the commanding heights. Both the central and the state governments have attempted to make the dream materialise. However, in the last few years the wind has started blowing in the opposite direction. Is public sector enterprise as a concept a wrong thing? Or, we have not attempted to take necessary care to understand that they are fundamentally different from private sector enterprises and to be managed differently. This paper takes a fresh look at the whole issue and pleads for fundamental changes in the way they are to be managed to enable them play an effective role to take the economy to the commanding heights.
2000-01-01T00:00:00ZDiminishing Marginal Utility of the 'Next' attribute: Cognitive Complexity and Complex Decisions
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Diminishing Marginal Utility of the 'Next' attribute: Cognitive Complexity and Complex Decisions
Nair, Unnikrishnan K.
This paper reports an empirical investigation of managerial effectiveness in dealing with illstructured decision environments as a function of cognitive complexity using a long duration, multi-faceted and dynamic computer simulated complex task presented to 45 managers from a large Indian metal processing unit. Four independent, domain specific cognitive complexity measures obtained through three different approaches were taken and later reduced through factor analysis to derive differentiation, discrimination and integration dimensions. Results revealed similar as well as distinctively different patterns of outcomes for the differentiation and integration dimensions. While effectiveness of managers in dealing with the simulated complex task showed both linear positive association as well as an ‘inverted U’ trend with increase in their differentiation capability, the integration dimension dominantly showed only the ‘inverted U’ trend. Noticeably, the discrimination dimension did not yi...
This paper was presented in the 2006 Annual Meeting of the US Academy of Management at Atlanta during August 11- 16 in MOC Division Session Dynamic Models of Decision Making Under Risk, Uncertainty & Complexity.
2006-01-01T00:00:00ZDeterminants Of The Ex-Post Performance Of Mergers And Acquisitions: A Case Study
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Determinants Of The Ex-Post Performance Of Mergers And Acquisitions: A Case Study
Krishna Kumar; Perio, Manel*
In the changing economic scenario, mergers and acquisitions are likely to emerge as an important strategy In the Indian corporate sector. Understanding the process of merger/acquisition therefore becomes important to ensure success of the strategy. This paper highlights the. managerial tasks involved for achieving higher levels of integration, which help In realising the unique managerial challenges Involved. the sources of these challenges emanating from the context of merger/acquisition. The paper also proposes a model for enhancing the understanding of the determinants of the ex-post performance of acquisitions and mergers.
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