1969
Department of Management Studies · IISc

Thesis Archive

Over five decades of original scholarship — 714 dissertations and thesis spanning management, technology, finance, and sustainability.

777Total Dissertations & Thesis
57+Years of Scholarship
6Academic Programmes
1969Year of First Thesis
At a Glance

Archive Insights

Output by Decade

Number of theses submitted per decade

5
1960s
22
1970s
95
1980s
155
1990s
171
2000s
183
2010s
145
2020s

By Programme

Share of total submissions

Ph.D.
208 (27%)
MMgt
207 (27%)
MBA
122 (16%)
MTech
137 (18%)
PGDip
58 (7%)
MSc
45 (6%)
Topics

Research Themes

Broad thematic clusters derived from thesis titles across all programmes and years.

Technology & Innovation

235 theses · 38%

Finance & Economics

205 theses · 33%

Operations & Supply Chain

121 theses · 19%

Human Resources & OB

41 theses · 7%

Strategy & Marketing

15 theses · 2%

Sustainability & Energy

9 theses · 1%

Milestones

Notable Firsts

Landmark theses that marked the beginning of each programme.

1969Ph.D.

Strategic Sector — The Axis of Accelerated Economic Development

Leela R

The department's very first doctoral thesis

1970PGDip

Evaluation of Plant Layout of a Factory Manufacturing

Lamba, K R

Earliest recorded post-graduate diploma thesis

1981MSc

Transfer of Technology From R & D Organizations to Manufacturing

Mathur, Dinesh

First MSc management dissertation

1988MTech

Efficient Plywood Constructions Using Computer-Oriented Optimization Methods

Bajaj Atul

Inaugural MTech management thesis

2001MBA

Qualitative Audit for Human Resource Systems at a Power Utility

Sharma, Protima

First MBA dissertation at DOMS

2013MMgt

Effectiveness of Increasing Block Pricing Structure

Akash Gupta

Inaugural thesis of the MMgt programme

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2026

A Multi-Model Evaluation of Semantic Preservation Structural Quality, and Factual Integrity in Indian E-Commerce

Vishesh Kaul·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran
2026

Identification of High Cost Claimants

Aditya Katole·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran
2026

IFRS 9 Non-Retail Probability of Default Modelling & Backtest Automation

Mandar Kadam Sanjay·Supervisor: Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay
2026

Intention Is All You Need

Awart Katiyar·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran
2026

Design, Architecture, and Context Management in a Multi-Tier Agentic Data Analysis System

Gulshan Kumar Alok·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

Agentic Chat Assistant For Financial Analysis

Paarth Barkur·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

Bayesian Algorithmic Framework for Portfolio Optimization: A Comparative Study of Structural and Predictive Strategies

Sachit Bagati·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

AI-powered Motor Vehicle Inspection System for Insurers

Sayooj C·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran
2026

Hybrid Demand Forecasting and Scenario-Based Supply Optimisation for Water Distribution Networks: Evidence from UK Supply Zones

Shuvadeep Ghosh·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

Patent as a Strategy: A Comparative Empirical Analysis of Patent-First versus Execution-First Startup Strategies

Gargi Deori·Supervisor: M. H. Bala Subrahmanya
2026

Unsupervised Healthcare Claims Anomaly Detection

Mukkesh Kumar K B·Supervisor: Sumirtha Gandhi
2026

Market Microstructure Simulation: Computing Implementation Shortfall using a Level 3 LOB Simulator

Bhatri Narayanan S·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

LLM-Augmented Capital Expenditure Forecasting for Commercial Real Estate Portfolios

Ujjawal Gahoi·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2026

QueryBuddy: A Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework for Domain-Specific Natural Language to SQL Translation

Kulsoom Zehra Naqvi·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran
2026

Development of Analytic Methods For A Class of Decision Problems In Urban Road Transport Organizations For Efficient Operation of City Buses

Rupkatha Ghosh·Supervisor: M. Mathirajan
2026

Modelling Social and Economic Impacts of Zero-Carbon Transition Of Indian Electricity System On Coal-Thermal Value-Chain: Identification, Quantification and Integration

Abhishek Das·Supervisor: Balachandra & Shashi Jain
2026

Development and Comprehensive Evaluation of Closed-Loop Order Release Control Policies Integrated With Due Date-Based Dispatching Rules To Improve Due Date Performance In Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication – A Simulation Approach

Raghupathi T·Supervisor: M. Mathirajan
2026

Order-Flow Modelling For Liquidity And Quoting In Event Time

Aditya Nittur Anantha·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2025

Data-Driven Re-Repair Optimization Using Rule-Based and Machine Learning Approaches

Ankush Raj·Supervisor: Shashi Jain
2025

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Aravind Meyappan·Supervisor: Parthasarathy Ramachandran