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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action
(2011-05-26)This paper explores how socio-economic, especially socio-religious affiliations, and demographic characteristics of individuals influence participation in higher education (HE). It argues that appropriate measures of ... -
An Arrested Virtuous Circle? Higher Education and High-Tech Industries in India
(2011-05-26)This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of linkages between higher education and the high-tech sector and study the major linkages in India. It finds that the links outside of the labour market are weak. ... -
Some aspects of technical consultancy organizations in India
(2010-07-27)The growth of technical consultancy organization (TCO) is very much a post Independence phenomenon. Prior to India's Independence the few Indian TCOs that existed acted as sub-contractors to foreign consultants for projects ... -
Approaches to institution building
(2010-07-27)This paper traces the history of Behavioural Science approaches in India. The paper examines the task centered, and identity centered approach to organization development. It differentiates between the institutional and ... -
Problems in teaching of international marketing
(2010-07-27)The question of initiating the process of application oriented education in International Marketing in countries like India is examined. Problems and issues in offering suitable programmes in this area for students of ... -
Corporate investment in agriculture research: issues in sustainable development
(2010-07-27)The productivity of agricultural inputs has been consistently declining over last two decades. Given the economic squeeze, Indian economy cannot afford to provide resources required for such a non-sustainable use of inputs. ... -
Indian economic forecast November 1992
(2010-07-27)There are confusing signals which are being given by different ministers and their officials about the health of Indian economy. Among all this brouhaha attempt is made to give economic logic to events occurring around us ... -
Brave new world of young Indian decision elites
(2010-07-27)Among the young elite decision-makers in modern India, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) probationers and management graduates from institutions such as Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) rank high. They come from ... -
Sharing costs and sharing revenue: the proportional solutions
(2010-07-27)Consider a group of people who have just been awarded a sum of money to undertake a consultancy for a research project. The problem that now confronts them is to share the revenue as well as the costs of the overheads ... -
Technical progress in Indian agriculture: temporal analysis
(2010-07-27)An attempt has been made in this paper to estimate the extent of technical progress in Indian agriculture during the period 1950-51 to 1988-89. An analysis of the sources of growth of Indian agriculture is also presented ... -
Impossibility of anonymous ordinal solutions for two person bargaining problems
(2010-07-27)In this paper we prove the non-existence of pure bargaining solutions which satisfy Pareto optimality, Anonymity and Invariance With Respect to Allowable Ordinal Transformations. -
Strongly fair allocations in economies with production
(2010-07-27)In this paper we show that essentially the only mechanism which is strongly fair in an economy with production is the equal income marginal cost pricing (EIMCP) mechanism. A variant of the analysis would prove that the ... -
Stipulation and exercise of convertibility options by financial institution
(2010-07-27)he Dutt Committee suggested that when public sector financial assistance in any significant scale is provided, the project should necessarily treated as belonging to 'joint sector' with proper representation for the state. ... -
Capital structure decision-making process in DFIS: a case study
(2010-07-27)The focus of the paper was on understanding the process of capital structure management of development finance institutions (DFIs) using the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India as a case study. The results ...