Recent economic liberalization in India has significantly changed the policy environment and has forced the domestic firms to review their strategies. As the situation is still evolving, the paper essentially explores changes in some key corporate strategies during the 1990s through an...

This article looks into the role of land reform in comparison to concentric effort to augment agricultural GDP. Redistributive land reform policy aims to improve land endowments of poor, though varies among states in respect to political will and implementation. Panel data of fifteen main states...

An instrument with 54 items was developed to measure marketing orientation of Indian companies. Ninety-one senior marketing executives from a cross section of Indian manufacturing companies provided data on their perceptions about the marketing orientation of their company through a mail...

Apples have been grown in India for a century. At present apple production exceeds 1.4 million tonnes a year. Still, there are wide variations in the apple prices across the country. We test the price data for market integration using cointegration and error correction methodology. Delhi, the...

The paper pleads for a total review of state operated lotteries in India. The idea of state run lotteries came with the laudable objective of mobilizing surplus money in the society by exploiting the gambling instinct and employing it for social good. In the process of translating it into...

The paper examines the impact of local institutions on development and poverty in the rural areas of India. Recent research on the role of institutions on the path of economic development indicates the importance of both “macro” and “micro” institutions including local institutions. The...

Government of Gujarat announced a “Chiranjeevi Yojana” in April 2005. The objective of this scheme is to encourage private medical practitioners to provide maternity health services in remote areas which record the highest infant and maternal mortality and thereby improve the institutional...

In the recent years the government’s policy of reducing the corporate tax rate and increasing the depreciation rate has been welcomed by the industrial sector. The changes so obviously benefit the sector that it appears incredible that there could be an industry which may not benefit from the...

This paper presents a framework for identification and analysis of issues in Safety Management in Transportation. The paper analyses Safety Management in the three modes of transport namely Road, Rail and Air. Safety Management in each of these three modes is examined by 1. Identifying the...

Present investigation is an attempt to study the effect of locus of control on the relationship between various role stressors and satisfaction with many off-the-job and on-the-job situations. 101 executives and engineers of an electricity generating and supplying company served as the sample of...