There has been concern in recent years regarding the efficiency of marketing of fruits and vegetables, and that this is leading to high and fluctuating consumer prices and only a small share of the consumer rupee reaching the farmers. Marketing of horticultural crops is complex especially...

This working paper makes a part of bigger project on “Economic and Management Aspects of Sugar Production from Sugar beet” sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, New Delhi, to the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. The objective of the paper was to examine the...

This paper presents an in-depth case study of technology transfer to an Indian manufacturing firm in the tractor industry and highlights the complexities involved as a result of the interaction of a number of factors both external to the firm as well as internal to it. The total process of...

The present paper reports the findings of dominating areas of maladjustments and prominence of needs in neurotics compared to normals. The Vyaktitva Parakh Prashnavali for the measurement of adjustment and AAPAS Motive Test for the measurement of needs were administered on 50 neurotics –...

By the end of 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) will complete its five years of existence. At that time, re-negotiation on Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) will also begin. It is time to take a retrospective look at what were the expected gains for India, how was the AOA implemented, and ponder...

Government bonds are subject only to interest rate risk. However, corporate bonds are subject to credit risk in addition to interest rate risk. Credit risk subsumes the risk of default as well as the risk of an adverse rating change. Considerable work has been done in the US and other countries...

This study analyzes the content, usability, interactivity and connectivity of Indian executive blogs. Results indicate that among the Indian CEOs and top executives who blog, most are associated with the Information Technology and Internet sectors. A content analysis of the blogs shows that...

The Planning Commission’s premise that the growth in India has bypassed the weaker sections due to their ineffective access to the basic services like primary education needs to be tested against the evidence. Traditionally identified weaker section on social criteria (SC and ST population)...

The praxis of work organizations is linked inextricably with the politicoeconomic context of the larger society in which the organization is located. The organizational structures and processes given the relations of production constitute the alienation of activity whether it is a capitalist,...