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The Adoption and Economics of Bt Cotton in India: Preliminary Results from a Study
(2009-08-13)
The paper presents preliminary results from a study of the economics and adoption of Bt cotton in India. Biotech crops, which made their appearance in the world about a decade ago, have gained substantial popularity and ...
Technical change and market price effects on income distribution in Indian rice economy
(2009-12-12)
The study suggests that while non-product price policies encouraging technical change and market infrastructure development would be beneficial to both PCC and NPC, the rice price support would be needed once technical ...
Rural Management Education in India: A Retrospect
(2009-08-22)
The paper reviews the state of rural management education in India. Using the setting up of the Institute of Rural Management Anand [IRMA] as a pivot, the paper examines the difficulties in establishing specialized management ...
Issues in Infrastructure for Export of Rice from India
(2009-07-29)
Rice is exported in two varieties, basmati (aromatic) and non-basmati. The basmati rice exports are in three categories: white, brown and parboiled. India earned Rs 18.4 billion in 2001-02 from exports of basmati rice and ...
Organisational climate, tolerance of ambiguity and learned helplessness as correlates to managerial effectiveness and creativity
(2009-12-12)
We are entering the twenty first century where the only thing we can be certain about is the prevalence of uncertainty. In such an environment characterised by uncertainty, the manager has to be a change agent by being ...
Enquiry into the various facets of women's careers
(2009-12-12)
Women's careers are subject to personal, interpersonal and societal influences of various kinds. From an empiricist point of view, the study was done to get an insight into the various facets of women s careers. The sample ...
Finland-India Business Prospects 2007-2017
(2009-08-13)
Finland-India Economic Relations were researched for the first time in a study that analysed mutual trade and investment potential through the lens of revealed comparative advantage and identified profitably tradable goods ...
An Exploratory Study of Factors affecting MBA Students’ Attitude towards Learning via Case Study Pedagogy: Insights from Advertising Literature
(2009-08-21)
Case based pedagogy has become popular in most business schools today, since the pioneering efforts made by Harvard Business School, several decades ago. Although the case method approach stands firmly on grounds its ...
The Classic Conceptualisation and Classification of Distribution Service Outputs - Time for a Revision?
(2009-09-04)
Distribution service outputs structurally play a pivotal role in retail- and channel management. This paper critically assesses the nature of Bucklin’s classic formulation, which is concerned with numerically expressible ...
Choice of a Retail Store and Retail Store Format: A Hierarchical Logit Model
(2009-07-30)
The literature on store choice has mainly studied the store attributes, and ignored the consumer attributes in store choice. Even when, the consumer attributes have been incorporated the strength of relationship has been ...