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Augmenting career development for women: agenda for organizations and individuals
(2010-04-06)Women's career development in organizations is often different from that of men. Although competent women, like competent men aspire for top positions of leadership in organizations, such positions often elude them. This ... -
Corporate restructuring for shareholder value
(2010-04-06)This paper takes an overview of two prime concerns of corporate management in the recent times, viz., shareholder value management and corporate restructuring. The paper begins with a brief discussion on the emergence of ... -
Making way for foreign trade marks: the new trade mark law in India
(2010-04-06)Following the requirements of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariff (GATT), India enacted the Trade Marks Act, 1999, replacing the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act of 1958. The new law has come into effect only ... -
Constitutional review: the right of an unborn generation
(2010-04-06)The article is a follow up of the series of three earlier writings that addressed the issues of Democracy and Governance in India. It outlines the purpose of a Constitutional Review, the needed changes in light of the ... -
Organizational practices and employee's performance: a case of Canadian Textile Industry
(2010-04-06)This study undertakes empirical explanation of inter-firm variations in employee s productivity by a set of organizational factors on the basis of firm level survey data drawn from the Canadian textile industry. Organizational ... -
Globalization and consumer choice
(2010-04-06)Based on simple examples, the note highlights the inadequate provisions in policy and law for promoting competition and consumer choice in the market place. Thus contrary to promise, globalization is limiting consumer ... -
Police performance, image and a desired future
(2010-04-06)Designed as a follow-up of an earlier study, the present investigation aimed at identifying Strengths, Weaknesses and a Desirable Future as perceived by the Senior Police Officers. The study revalidates the previous ... -
Time series analysis of private health care expenditures and GDP: co-integration results with structural breaks
(2010-04-06)This paper analyses the time-series behaviour of private health expenditure and GDP to understand whether there is long-term equilibrium relationship between these two variables and estimate income elasticity of private ... -
Profile and impacts of tractorization
(2010-04-06)Out of 19 licensed tractor manufacturing companies were producing tractors in 1990-91. The import of tractors has declined with fluctuation from 2997 in 1961-62 to 10 in 1986-87 at the rate of -23.20 per cent per annum. ... -
Population monotonicity and the constrained equal awards solution for rationing problems
(2010-04-06)In this paper, we axiomatically characterize the Constrained Equal Awards Solution for Rationing Problems, using the axioms of No-Envy, Population Monotonicity, Resource Continuity and replication invariance. -
Robust design but indifferent manner of use: family bio-gas plants in Gujarat
(2010-04-06)Potential for family size biogas plants is estimated to be about 12 lakh in Gujarat. Nearly 2 lakh units have been actually installed by 1993. Deenbandhu model appears to be the most popular. In this paper we present an ... -
Technology strategies of large enterprises in Indian industry: some explorations
(2010-04-06)A firmzs technology strategy is influenced by the ytechnology regimez in which it operates. The regime is broadly defined by a combination of variables capturing industrial structure, nature of technical knowledge and the ... -
War for talent HR challenge of our times
(2010-04-06)The concept of modern management is primarily concerned with the planning and development of HR. the man behind the machine has rightly become the focus of attention with a sense of responsibility to make most of the ... -
Effect of policy on export competitiveness: case of the Indian garment industry
(2010-04-06)The paper argues that policy should enable and encourage large firms to play a more active role in garment exports. This will allow India to exploit the high-volume segments of the world market more fully and appropriate ... -
Deregulation at the state level
(2010-04-06)This paper examines the current status of deregulation at the state level by studying the initial approvals required by a new industrial unit from 10 state government authorities in Goa, gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharshtra. ... -
Substitution of trade credit for bank credit: empirical study of financing behaviour of Indian manufacturing companies using panel data
(2010-04-06)The hypothesis that companies substitute trade credit for bank credit during period of restricted monetary policy has been subject of empirical investigation for the reasons that it helps us to understand the linkages ... -
Biotechnology: promises, concerns and options
(2010-04-05)Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents. It is based on enhanced understanding of the genetic structure of organisms at the level of ... -
Dividend behaviour of Indian companies under monetary policy restrictions
(2010-04-05)In this study we examine the dividend behaviour of Indian companies. We use GMM estimator, which is the most suitable methodology in a dynamic setting. Our results show that the Indian firms have lower target ratios and ... -
Comment on the adjusted proportional solution for rationing problems
(2010-04-05)In this paper we obtain a simple expression for the adjusted proportional solution for rationing problems, when a fixed supply of an infinitely divisible good has to be divided only among two people, and when their demands ... -
Macroeconomic analysis of the union budget 1996-97
(2010-04-05)The Union Budget for 1996-97 was the maiden budget of the recently formed United Front Government. Given the political context and the economic scenario, the formulation of this budget was a fairly difficult task. An attempt ...