Reference No: OB0012Pages: 2Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: This is a Description of the Career background of a high achievement oriented small industry entrepreneur. This is useful for studying the behaviour background of small industry entrepreneur. ... More
Reference No: MAR0097Pages: 33 Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: This is a case on marketing planning for a new scooter manufacturing company. Marketing decisions relate to product mix, distribution channels, promotion and pricing for the scooter being manufactured by the company. Strategic decisions like which segments of the market should be attacked at what point of time are extremely ... More
Reference No: OB0054Pages: 2Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: The life history of an entrepreneur who has a lot of potentiality, imaginativeness and ideas but who cannot put them into practice due to over?ambitiousness. An example of how he has been struggling to operationalize his ideas. ... More
Reference No: P&IR0107TECPages: 6 Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: The various sources of what is legally known as indiscipline within an organization are discussed. The note suggests that the approach to indiscipline would depend on the assumptions made by managers about its causes and consequences, and discusses the procedures for handling such problems. The latter part of the note ... More
Reference No: OB0069TECPages: 7Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: This note summarizes the main elements of formal organizations such as personality, norms, value, status, role authority and power, and culture; discusses the operational aspects of the structural variables, and brings out the fundamental organizational processes such as institutionalization, socialization, and boundary maintenance; deals with the relation between an organization ... More
Reference No: BP0058Pages: 20Published on: 1, January, 1974
Abstract: Focuses on a pioneer garment-manufacturing companys failure to consolidate its position due to its inability to take advantage of an early entry into the industry. Failure to evolve a clear product-market strategy and to follow up on a national distribution system developed earlier; organizational problems of family enterprise management; and ... More
Reference No: CMA0308(A)Pages: 10Published on: 21, January, 1974
Abstract: The case focuses on the problems the Paddy Marketing Board of Sri Lanka faces in the procurement of rice paddy, maintenance of quality control measures and high cost of procurement. A suitable organizational strategy has to be evolved under the existing system in order to achieve maximum efficiency. ... More
Reference No: CMA0308(B)Pages: 4Published on: 21, January, 1974
Abstract: The case deals with the findings of the expert committee set up by Sri Lanka Paddy Marketing Board to suggest changes in the organizational structure of the Board. The attempt is to find out the feasibility of adoption of the suggested changes by the expert committee in the existing organizational ... More
Reference No: CMA0266(B)Pages: 5Published on: 20, February, 1974
Abstract: Deals with the investment decisions on the processing of paddy in Sri Lanka. There is a comparison between the existing system of processing and a new system of processing. The objective of the case is to show how the capital budgeting technique could be used for investment decisions in paddy ... More
Reference No: CMA0266(A)Pages: 6Published on: 20, February, 1974
Abstract: Deals with the procurement system of paddy in Sri Lanka and raises the question about the cost of financing the procurement. If the period of the payments made to multipurpose cooperative societies for procuring paddy and payment received from the Food Commission for rice distributed to the ration shops could ... More
Reference No: CMA0266(C)Pages: 6Published on: 20, February, 1974
Abstract: Deals with the problems of investment in the silo system of storage for processing paddy in Sri Lanka. The investment decision is to be made in the context of the existing storage system. The objective is to show how the capital budgeting technique could be used in storage system. ... More
Reference No: CMA0266(D)Pages: 20Published on: 20, February, 1974
Abstract: This is an integrated case which deals with the storage and processing systems in the rice industry in Sri Lanka. Deals with the policy problems of modernization of paddy-rice system and also investment decisions. It can be used for showing how the capital budgeting technique can be used for such ... More
Reference No: CMA0309(C)Pages: 7Published on: 3, March, 1974
Abstract: Deals with the problems of implementation of the performance budget in the construction activities of a dairy project. It has been shown that all parts of a performance budget should be implemented simultaneously if the budget is to serve as a management control mechanism. ... More
