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    • India’s producer companies and small farmers: performance and impact 

      Singh, Sukhpal (Springer Nature, 2025-01-08)
      Summary: The book is an exhaustive assessment of the innovative farmer producer companies or co-operative companies in India based on 23 case studies of such companies, including all-women member PCs, across four states ...

    • Purpose: digital transformation of individuals, organizations and societies 

      Setia, Pankaj (Penguin Business, 2024-11-12)
      Summary: This book intends to reveal the latent purpose required to champion, lead, and enact digital transformation. It articulates that a purposeful approach, as followed in this book, is urgently required and may help ...

    • Organizational theory, design and change 

      Jones, Gareth R.; Gupta, Vishal; Gopakumar, K. V. (Pearson, 2024-07-02)
      Summary: The Indian edition of Organizational Theory, Design, and Change, 7th edition incorporates examples and case studies that are specifically tailored to the context of the Indian subcontinent. The book's central theme ...

    • Climate change adaptation: traditional wisdom and cross-scale understanding 

      Bikkina, Nalini; Turaga, Rama Mohana R. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024-06-21)
      Summary: This book discusses how climate change needs to be anchored in indigenous knowledge with reference to resource management, infrastructure, livelihoods, and social institutions, with a unique focus on risks and ...

    • Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Selfies in India 

      Ray, Avishek; Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel; Raman, Usha; Webb, Martin; Gupta, Neha; Komarraju, Sai Amulya; Premika, Anuja; Azam, Riad; Salim, Farhat; Subramanian, Pranavesh (Routledge India, 2024-02-06)
      The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards an external reality, remains intimately self-referential, yet reconfigures ...

    • Amazing Indian who made a difference. 

      Gupta, Vishal; Gupta, Vishal K. (Vitasta Publishing Private Limited, New Delhi- 110002, 2024-02-12)
      75 Amazing Indians Who Made a Difference' invites readers into the captivating lives of 75 diverse Indians, each distinguished with the prestigious Padma awards. Organised into concise biographical chapters, book provides ...

    • Regulating agricultural markets in India: a smallholder perspective 

      Singh, Sukhpal (Orient BlackSwan, 2023)
      The Orient BlackSwan ‘Policy Studies’ series is designed to address, investigate, and analyse public policy in the field of governance. In 2020, contentious agricultural market Acts, popularly known as the Farm Laws, ...

    • Management essentials revisited: in the era of digitalization 

      Banerjee, Arindam; Banerjee, Tanushri (KBI Publishers, 2023-09-01)
      This book is an ideal compendium for practitioners/management students to review and revise effective business philosophy along with a strong theoretical underpinning. Written in a no nonsense style, it avoids acronyms and ...

    • Human Resource Management (17th edition) 

      Dessler, Gary; Varkkey, Biju (Pearson Education, 2023-06-22)
      Human Resource Management introduces you to the daily tools and skills you'll need to function as successful managers, in both HR and business in general. Using a practical approach, the text explores the evolution of the ...

    • Flattening the curve: COVID-19 & grand challenges for global health, innovation, and economy 

      Chatterjee, Chirantan; Chakrabarti, Anindya S; Deolalikar, Anil B (World Scientific, 2023)
      One of the key issues the world grappled with during COVID-19 was the distributional implications of lockdowns globally. The shadow of lockdown policies continues when nations still try to emerge out of the pandemic. ...

    • Intelligent Transportation Systems: Concepts and Cases 

      Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023-02-01)
      Transportation-related challenges exist all over the world, with all countries struggling to develop efficient, effective and user-friendly transportation systems. Today, policy agencies and financing institutions are keen ...

    • Teacher development in India: building on grassroots innovations and technology 

      Chand, Vijaya Sherry (Routledge, 2023)
      This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. Based on a three-decade-long engagement with ...

    • Leapfrog: six practices to thrive at work 

      Sud, Mukesh; Narayan, Priyank (Penguin Random House, 2022-10)
      Leapfrog-in the context of thriving at work-is a scenario when a new entrant outperforms others. How do they achieve this? Are high performers born or made? Is there a way to nudge yourself into being more successful at ...

    • Pulses for Food and Nutritional Security of India: Production, Markets and Trade 

      Varma, Poornima (Springer Singapore, 2022)
      This book provides an in-depth analysis of India’s pulses sector in terms of production, prices, markets, and trade. Pulses play a pivotal role in a developing country like India for all categories of people due to its ...

    • Impactful data visualization: hide and seek with graphs 

      Ranganatha, Kavitha (SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2022)
      There is scarcely a role that does not require us to understand, analyse and present data. Charts, graphs and maps are everywhere. However, many of these data visuals leave the viewer bewildered, confused or (even worse) ...

    • Legal aspects of business 

      Pathak, Akhileshwar (McGraw Hill, 2022)
      This is one of the most popular titles on business law in India. Since its launch in 2005, Legal Aspects of Business has come a long way in winning hearts across the length and breadth of the country in the two decades of ...

    • Reverse subsidies in global monopsony capitalism: gender, labour, and environmental injustice in garment value chains 

      Nathan, Dev; Bhattacharjee, Shikha Silliman; Rahul, S.; Kumar, Purushottam; Dahagani, Immanuel; Singh, Sukhpal; Swaminathan, Padmini (Cambridge University Press, 2022-09-14)
      This book provides a firm analytical base to discussions about injustice and the unequal distribution of gains from global production in the form of global monopsony capitalism. It utilizes the concept of reverse subsidies ...

    • Brands and the brain: how to use neuroscience to create impactful brands 

      Sahay, Arvind (Penguin Penguin Random House, 2022-03-11)
      It is evident that some of the most powerful brands are deeply embedded in our unconscious emotions and memories. The purpose of this book is to develop an understanding of the link between the human brain and brand ...

    • Causes and symptoms of socio-cultural polarization: role of information and communication technologies 

      Qureshi, Israr; Bhatt, Babita; Gupta, Samrat; Tiwari, Amit Anand (Springer Link, 2022-07-21)
      This book explores cultural polarization resultant decline in social cohesion in society and how information and communication technologies exacerbate the cultural polarization through phenomenon such as “echo chambers” ...

    • Research handbook on strategic entrepreneurship 

      Gupta, V.K.; Goktan, A.B.; Shirokova, G.V.; Karna, A. (Cheltenham Edward Elgar, 2022)
      This Research Handbook provides a solid foundation for exploring the vibrant field of strategic entrepreneurship, with an examination of important topics from theoretical, psychological and economic perspectives. Analysing ...