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Indian Convertible bonds with unspecified terms a Valuation Model
(2012-10-17)Indian convertible bonds have two peculiar features that make them possibly unique in the world: a) the bonds are compulsorily converted into equity without any option, and b) the conversion terms are not specified at the ... -
Estimating Biomass potential for Bio-fuel conversion in India: Some Methodological Issues
(2012-10-17)As resources diminish and need increase, it has become important to utilize waste materials as fuel. This paper discusses some methodological issues on the biomass conversion into fuel. Biomass is an organic matter formed ... -
Building upon peoples ecological knowledge: Framework for studying culturally embedded CPR Institutions
(2012-10-17)We have earlier argued (Gupta 1990) that portfolio of activities evolved by household for adjusting with risks includes a combination of apparently rational strategies of livelihood. The portfolio is based on resources ... -
Developing H.R.D Professionals through Distance Education: An Experiment
(2012-10-17)1012 This paper describes a diploma programme in HRD being offered by the Academy of human Resource Development in distance education mode to prepare HRD professionals for the HRD function. This diploma ranging over an ... -
Negotiation Procedures Converging to Bargaining to Solutions
(2012-10-17)In this paper we study globally stable adjustment processes converging to the egalitarian and Nash solutions respectively in two person bargaining problems, that a rise under bilateral monopoly. The preference structures ... -
A Multiple Objective model for sustainable Micro-Watershed planning with Application
(2012-10-17)A watershed is hydrological unit of space composed of interrelated drainage area with a common movement of water including all the consequential implications for land and water use. A micro-watershed is a coherent ecosystem ... -
Partial Issue Monotonicity
(2012-10-17)In this paper we proposed and characterize a class of new solutions to bargaining problems which uses a reference point and satisfies a property known as partial issue monotonicity. -
Marketing of Seeds in India: Status and Issues
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State Private sector and Labour: the political economy of jute industry modernization, west-bengal, 1986-90
(2012-10-17)In the decades since independence, the jute industry underwent a sharp eclipse as exports and profits declined technology remained stagnant, mills closed and workers were thrown out in large numbers. In 1986 a jute ... -
Transfer Payments and Other Determinants of Working Poverty in Canada 1971-90
(2012-10-17)Government policy of reducing transfer payments drastically is based on arguments of strong preference for leisure by the beneficiaries. Since this has direct bearing on working poverty, empirical evidence on the relationship ... -
Firm Size and Export Behavior in a Developing Country
(2012-10-17)In the context of Indian industry, this paper argues that in the presence of capital market imperfection and sub-optimal contractual arrangements, small firms face higher transaction or selling costs in the domestic market. ... -
Functional Distribution of National Income in Indian Economy
(2012-10-17)An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the functional distribution of national income in Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1990-90. The study presents the estimates of the factor shares of labour, ... -
Meta Processes for Organizational Excellence in Developing Societies
(2012-10-17)As societies in transition, involved in modernization, nation building, socio-economic transformation, and increasing globalization of their economies, developing societies must evolve forms of organizational excellence ... -
A Comment on Nash’s Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Assumption for Choice Problems
(2012-10-17)In a recent paper, campbel (1994) shows that if a choice correspondence satisfies Arrow’s choice axiom than it has a complete, reflexive and transitive rationalization, even if the domain does not include any set with fewer ... -
Demand for Farm Tractors: Two Models
(2012-10-11)Demand prediction for farm tractors is of interest to industry and government. Two different models were developed earlier. One termed a casual model was similar to a model of a process driven by potential difference. The ... -
A Reduced Game Property for the Proportional Solutions for Claims Problems
(2012-10-11)The Problem we discuss in this paper is one of allocating a homogenous, divisible good among a group of claimants in a way that is perceived as just or fair. A Solution to such a problem is allocating the good in proportion ... -
Leadership in Family Owned Organizations
(2012-10-11)The main focus of the study is on the role of entrepreneurs, progenitors, patriarchs and leaders in the family owned organizations. The family ownership and membership, being the family history relational dynamics, familial ... -
Technology Development in the Indian textile Industry: Interaction Between Government Policy, firms and cooperative Research Associations
(2012-10-11)This Study presents the findings of a study of technology development in the Indian textile industry undertaken by the authors as part of a large international study led by the World Bank. The study methodology included a ... -
Organization Development Intervention in Indian Organization
(2012-10-11)The growth of an organization pulls people to change those who plan and initiate change grow. Those who do not, remain frozen in their roles and location organization Development and design in a process decision which an ... -
Thorny Glory: Towards Organizational Greatness
(2012-10-11)It is argued that organizational greatness is worth probing because it may play a significant role in human evolution. Organizational greatness is postulated to require both performance excellence vis-à-vis organizations ...