In this paper, we have attempted to estimate the urban – rural income differential (URID) for 15 major states based on readily available data on GSDP by sectors, population and employment by sectors and urban – rural residence. There are three components of the URID, viz., worker population...

PPP mode of investment in Indian ports has made a significant headway and is preferred for investments today. The 12 major ports and about 200 minor ports along the 7,500 km coastline of the country have together traded about 935 mt of cargo in 2012-13. The traffic is growing each year. The...

Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for the direction of causality for growth and inflation, and short-run costs...

Small, informally organized retail grocery shops called kirana shops are ubiquitous in contemporary India and have historically existed as a dominant form of organizing in the Indian retail context. Despite increased competition from the relatively recent emergence of organized retail, kirana...

This paper conceptually explores the impact on the strategic agility of an organization due to it being a part of an inter-connected network of organizations. Organizations need to be strategically agile to respond to the challenges posed by dynamic environments. Existing literature has...

The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. The present study adopts an individual level of analysis and investigates...

The World Wide Web was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners Lee and shortly after that, in 1994, Pizza Hut delivered its first pizza after receiving an online order. Electronic commerce is one of the boons of internet and the one that is speculated to alter how businesses will grow in the competitive...

Product assortment planning is considered as one of the important problems in the retail business. Traditional approaches to product selection in the assortment are largely based on individual product popularity or margins. More recent research works in the literature utilize the cross selling...

Economic liberalisation in 1990s necessitated development of a world class road network to trigger the economic growth trajectory for India. The concept of involving private sector was mooted as the investment required for this task was well beyond the budgetary support. Thus private sector...

In this paper, we model welfare implications of entry of commercial microfinance institutions (MFIs). We initially characterize equilibrium with a sole fund-constrained benevolent credit institution followed by equilibrium with only profit-motivated MFIs. We show that entry of such MFIs can lead...