Coherence is the ability to discover new – potentially profitable – combinations of various types of knowledge assets where complementarity is the basis for relevant combinations. Assets are considered complementary if doing (more of) any one of them increases the returns to doing (more of)...

This study focuses on analysing the hospital efficiency of district level government hospitals and grant-in-aid hospitals in Gujarat. The study makes an attempt to provide an overview of the general status of the health care services provided by hospitals in the state of Gujarat in terms of...

In this paper the authors attempted to understand attitudes towards work and family roles of professional men and women in India. Propositions based on the adult development theories of men and women, regarding reward value derived from and commitment made to the occupational, parental, marital...

The agricultural transformation during green revolution is no more green in most developing countries. The declining productivity of inputs clearly points to the non-sustainable nature of current growth processes. While there is rethinking going on in the formal research system itself, the...

Customers seek to know the best way of getting from an origin to a destination on a transportation system. Knowing the best way, i.e., itinerary planning, becomes all the more important when there are varied choices depending on the desired starting day and time at the origin or a required...

We describe a general best-first tree search scheme that schedules a set of partially ordered jobs under resource constraints to optimize a non-regular performance measure. The scheme has been implemented for two categories of problems. In the first category, jobs have individual duedates, and...

Households strategies for adjustment with risks is an understudied subject, in general but role of women in this regard has remained particularly neglected. Author had taken up a comprehensive study of Impoverishment in Drought Prone Regions in collaborations with Swiss Dev Corporation and...

Countries in both developed and developing regions are placing more importance on the role of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in the growth of companies, and thereby to the economic development of their countries. M&A activities are becoming popular in many Asian countries. In Thailand as well...

There is indubitably more to the sources of sustained competitive advantage of corporations than meets the eye. Among the most promising of these are the focal faculties of the firm, the areas of expertise ingrained in organizations over long periods of time. If properly developed and managed...

With a view to understand the current status and working of Cooperative credit Structure and to formulate the strategy they need to follow in the coming decade, Kheda district in Gujarat selected for a case study. On the basis of insights developed, the strategy needed to strengthen the...