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Logistics And Supply Chain Management : Cases And Concepts Edited By G Raghuram And N Rangaraj, New Delhi, Macmillan Business, 2000., V K Sharma Mar 2002

Logistics And Supply Chain Management : Cases And Concepts Edited By G Raghuram And N Rangaraj, New Delhi, Macmillan Business, 2000., V K Sharma

IIMB Management Review

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An Efficient Real-World Food Delivery System : The Dabbawallas Of Mumbai, Ashok Kumar, Stephen T Margulis, Jaideep Motwani Dec 2001

An Efficient Real-World Food Delivery System : The Dabbawallas Of Mumbai, Ashok Kumar, Stephen T Margulis, Jaideep Motwani

IIMB Management Review

The “Dabbawalla” or tiffin carrier system that operates in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is unique and incredible in the complexity and enormity of its task, simplicity of its operation, and surprisingly low error rates for a system of its size. It is a daily service in which thousands of men carry and deliver over 200,000 lunches every day, within  three hour block of time, across the city’s 70-kilometre stretch, with each lunch box (known as tiffin or dabba) changing hands at least four times. Yet, for all its complexity and size, it is run and managed by a group of largely …


Efficiency Through Organisational Innovativeness In Passenger Road Transport: The Case Of Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Undertaking., R K Mishra, R Nandagopal Dec 1991

Efficiency Through Organisational Innovativeness In Passenger Road Transport: The Case Of Tamil Nadu State Road Transport Undertaking., R K Mishra, R Nandagopal

IIMB Management Review

Here an attempt has been made to study the working of the Road Transport Corporations in Tamil Nadu which have been lauded by the World Bank and others as efficient transport organisations in the public sector. The focus of this paper is to bringout clearly the inter-relationship between organisational innovativeness and efficiency in the State Transport Undertakings in Tamil Nadu which will help the policy makers an alternative model to tone up the working of the Road Transport Corporations in the other states.


Freight Transport Deregulation And Its Impact In New Zealand, Gagadish C Guria Jul 1987

Freight Transport Deregulation And Its Impact In New Zealand, Gagadish C Guria

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In recent years a move towards deregulation, i.e. the replacement of quantity restrictions on the number of licences, on maximum and/or minimum rates, on geographic boundaries of operation etc., by quality restriction on drivers’ qualifications and systems of operation, has become a significant development in the transport policy of many countries: Australia. Sweden, Switzerland,U.K., USA, and New Zealand. The trend was first set in Australia, in 1954 when the interstate freight transport was deregulated. Later on this trend spread to individual states: South Australia in 1968 and New South Wales in 1974. In Sweden a move towards deregulation was initiated …