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Indicators as indigenous ecological knowledge: 'Lamp Posts', 'Crossroads' and 'Turning Points'
(2010-03-28)Boundaries of most natural systems are fuzzy and thus amenable to contraction and expansion over time and space due to interaction of various natural and human variables. Fuzzy boundaries often require homeostatic indicators ... -
Strategies of technology intensive firms
(2010-03-28)This working paper summarises the findings of a study of 46 high-technology venture capital funded firms. The focus of the study was on the decision orientation of entrepreneurs on various strategy related dimensions. It ... -
Structural determinants of openness of economies: the conceptual basis and cross-sectional evidence
(2010-03-28)This study argues that structural factors-principally population per capita income and population density-can explain a significant proportion of the variation in openness defined as (exports + imports)/gross national ... -
Export and liberalization: a simple industrial organization approach
(2010-03-28)This paper presents a simple theory towards putting forward two hypotheses that can be empirically verified with regard to the export behaviour of oligopoly firms in the post-liberalization period in selective Indian ... -
Review of Malaysian telecom sector: assessment of policy changes
(2010-03-28)The Malaysian economy has been growing rapidly, with concomitant demand for telecom services. With a view to reducing the role of the government in economy and introducing efficiency, the government planned to corporatize ... -
Some remarks on properties for choice functions
(2010-03-28)In this paper, we present five catagories of results by studying the interrelationships between properties for choice functions. The first catagory of result is about the localization assumption. The second catagory of ... -
Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: shall we save the goose that laid the golden eggs so long
(2010-03-28)Large number of local communities have conserved biodiversity and the associated knowledge systems despite remaining very poor. Sometimes, they have refused to receive any compensation in view of sharing the information. ... -
Dynamic programming approach to determine optimal manpower recruitment policies
(2010-03-28)The manpower planning models available in literature have dealt with how changes takes place in a manpower planning system, under various operating and policy constraints. However none of these models have identified the ... -
Top management stresses: suggested HRD interventions
(2010-03-28)One of the main areas in which HRD interventions are needed relate to organizational role stresses.An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the stresses of the top management executives and to suggest HRD interventions ... -
Metric rationalization of bargaining solutions
(2010-03-28)In this paper we represent bargaining solutions by means of a metric which is defined on games, whereby the solutions are precisely those payoffs which are closest to being unanimously highest. -
Approximate algorithm for reducing dummy-activities in a pert network
(2010-03-28)A project is an enterprise consisting of several activities which are to be carried out in some specific order. The activities and the order in which they need to be carried out can be represented by a pert network. Two ... -
Hire-purchase installments: are you quoting right?
(2010-03-28)This paper is concerned with the practice in the financial sector to quote hire-purchase installments for 100% finance schemes and deposit linked hybrid finance schemes on the basis of equal IRRs. The paper shows the ... -
Can PHC system in India deliver emergency obstetric Care? a management perspective on safe motherhood programme
(2010-03-28)India has an extensive network of hospitals and health centers with a large field staff in the government sector which has been providing primary health care. Of late this infrastructure has been effective in delivering ... -
Estimation of price elasticity of fertilizer demand in India
(2010-03-28)The empirical evidence on the price elasticity of fertilizer demand in India is not conclusive. In order to properly estimate the likely impact of the policy changes affecting fertilizer prices on the fertilizer use and ... -
Learning by blundering around some experiences in international management
(2010-03-28)Based upon the experiences of American Companies operating abroad the paper focuses on the issue of learning in management. It shows that costly mistakes can be avoided by looking at the blunders committed by others. It ... -
Rationing and the private provision of a public good
(2010-03-28)In this paper we study a solution concept for resource allocation in an economy with public goods and a fixed set of cost-shares for each agent. This solution is originally due to Champsaur (1979). We study the existence ... -
On the existence and efficiency of a voting equilibrium for a public good economy
(2010-03-28)The main purpose of this paper is to formalise the concept of a compromise function. Subsequently, given a compromise function, we define a voting equilibrium and prove the existence of such an equilibrium. Finally, we ... -
The conquest of self? intimacy and the overcoming of boundaries
(2010-03-28)The present paper looks at the changes taking place at present in the realm of intimacy and human sexuality in Europe and North America. The paper presents the description of such changes as offered by Anthony Giddens, an ... -
Group in Organizations
(2010-03-28)This note deals with the basics of Group Dynamics. It discusses the nature and types of groups in organization and elaborates on the need to study group behavior as well as why individuals join groups. The note also discusses ... -
Indian machine tool industry: caught at the cross roads
(2010-03-28)This paper reviews the development of the Indian machine tools industry since independence. It analyses the key capabilities and growth experiences of the industry in the domestic and international context. It presents the ...