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Network Economies in Indian Telecom
(2009-08-03)
Natural monopolies arising out of sub-additivity costs on the supply side are well known. Recently the consumer side has been emphasized especially in industries like telecom and IT/software industries. As per Shapiro and ...
Agriculture: A Perspective from History, the Metrics of Comparative Advantage, and Limitations of the Market to Understand the Role of State in a Globalising World
(2009-08-13)
Multilateral agencies and economists with much influence have been urging laissez-faire in agriculture. While success with the rich countries has been minimal despite the commitments under the WTO, many poor countries with ...
Networks of Small Producers for Technological Innovation: Some Models
(2009-07-25)
Small producers face a variety of challenges - some related to markets and others related to capabilities. Inability to develop technological capabilities has often restricted small firms from growing large. In this paper, ...
Commerciality’ in International Commercial Arbitration
(2009-03-09)
Enterprises, the world over, now conduct business on a dramatically more international scale. The growth of world economies is directly connected with millions of commercial contracts, which are becoming more international ...
A Review of the Tabu Search Literature on Traveling Salesman Problems
(2009-07-28)
he Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most widely studied problems in
ombinatorial optimization. It has long been known to be NP-hard and hence research on
developing algorithms for the TSP has focused on ...
Grassroots to Global: Online Incubation of Grassroots Innovations based enterprises
(2009-07-25)
The dominant model of globalisation creates considerable anxiety and stress in the minds of small-scale entrepreneurs and civil society organisations. In this model, choices for small entrepreneurs are very limited. The ...
Strategic Marketing Alliances, Partnerships and Networks – The Logic of Cooperation, Roots, Evolution and Advantage
(2009-07-25)
The marketing discipline is evolving and so is its agenda with the advent of relationship marketing, networks and other related sub-fields. Till recently, business literature focused largely on competition, and cooperation, ...
Factoring Affecting the Demand for Health Insurance in a Micro Insurance Scheme
(2009-08-08)
Health insurance schemes are increasingly recognised as preferable mechanisms to finance health care provision. In this direction micro health insurance schemes and community based health insurance schemes are assuming ...
Inter-Relationship between Economic Growth, Savings and Inflation in Asia
(2009-07-29)
The present study examines the inter-relationship between economic growth, savings rate and inflation for south-east and south Asia in a simultaneous equation framework using two stage least squares with panel data. The ...
Managerial Roles and Interfaces: Some Organizational Issues and Implications through Thematic Apperception Test
(2009-07-25)
Indian organizations are encountering transformations within the organization and in the external – both national and global environment. In this era of rapid transformations Indian managers need assess their role taking ...