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Understanding the Business Type: A Comparitive Analysis of Management Students and Business Executives
(2011-05-26)
Study of personality type has contributed a lot to our understanding and prediction of human behaviour, especially in organizational contexts. A great deal of interest is especially focused on what types of people are most ...
Feasibility and Sustainability Model for Identity Management
(2011-05-26)
National identity projects and providing such identification to citizens in various countries around the globe have captured attention of late. Although the perceived benefits are numerous, the challenges and bottlenecks ...
East And West, The Twain Shall Meet: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Higher Education
(2011-05-26)
Both India and the U.S. were once colonies of Great Britain, the world''s first but short-lived global power. And both India and the U.S. ultimately threw off the imperialist yoke. Despite independence, both democracies ...
Information System for Brand-Variety Performance and Decisions: Study and Application for Cotton in India
(2011-05-26)
Information on brand-variety performance is critical for small farmers in India since every year they need to make crucial decisions on which brand-variety seeds to plant. The livelihoods from small farms and returns on ...
Role of Universal Service Obligation Fund in Rural Telecom Services: Lessons from the Indian Experience
(2011-05-26)
This paper outlines India’s experience of increasing rural teledensity, including its recent policy initiative to increase penetration through creation of a Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) that supports a variety ...
A Perspective on Fisheries Sector Interventions for Livelihood Promotion
(2011-05-26)
The distinctive features of fisheries resources, fishers and their geographic contexts, on the one hand, and broad stylized features of the existing lacklustre performance of this sector, on the other, call for specialized ...
Contemporary Lessons in Economic Philosophy drawn from Two Recent Indian Films
(2011-05-26)
The aim of this paper is to derive some important lessons in economic philosophy from two recent Indian films. The two films, Mani Ratnam’s Guru (2007) and Madhur Bhandarkar’s Corporate (2006), are explicitly about the ...
Trends in Technical Progress in India Analysis of Input-Output Tables from 1968 to 2003
(2011-05-26)
The paper is based on the eight input-output (I-O) tables for the Indian economy available over a period of 36 years from 1968-69 to 2003-4. The technical progress (TP) in the context of the I-O tables is based on the ...
Reform of the Fiscal and Subsidy Regime for the Petroleum Sector (Based on a Report Commissioned by the Petroleum Federation of India)
(2011-05-26)
Problems in the oil sector emanate from the structure of central taxes and the system of subsidization through prices. Solutions to the problems necessarily have to address both tax and subsidy simultaneously. The social ...
Measuring Institutional Relatedness
(2011-05-26)
Firms in most emerging economies are engaged in seemingly unrelated activities. This is particularly observed in the case of business groups which dominate the landscape of these economies. Initially, diversification in ...