With the liberalisation and globalisation of the Indian economy, as could be expected, firms have been aggressively and vigorously promoting their products and services. These practices raise questions about truthfulness and fairness of representation of products and services. Not only the...

In his critique of experimental social psychology, Durganand Sinha views experimentation as an inadequate approach to complex social phenomena, and complains that social psychology are confined to problems for which methods already exist. In this reply, I take the position that social...

The working paper is based on a month-long visit to China investigating socialist development strategies of China. There has been significant shifts in development strategies in China in the Post-Mao era. The paper examines some facets of the change in development strategies in post-Mao China...

This is a state-or-art survey of the training functions in India. Data was collected from 49 organizations varying in size, turnover, product, technology, sector and geographic location. Major findings suggest one-third of the organizations have separate training departments manned by...

This somewhat non-technical and brief paper synthesizes the literature on what to catalyse for the “Strategy” for agriculture and how to accomplish this “strategy” through public policies for government expenditure, reorganization of implementing institutions, pricing of farm inputs and...

Job satisfaction has been of interest to organizational researchers for a long time. However, success in measuring it has been limited. There have been suggestions that its assessment through “action tendencies’ may be more useful than the usual descriptive measures of job satisfaction. An...

Transborder movement of technology is being increasingly felt in international business. A large proportion of worldwide international transfer of technology (ITT) occurs between industrially advanced countries. But for developing countries ITT is considered critical as it is seen to be an...

A quick look at the leading scientific journals on development brings out one thing clearly: the almost total absence of positive, creative, green voices of innovator and inventors who are solving technological and institutional problems on their own without any outside help. Why is this gap so...

This paper presents a framework in which to understand the internationalization strategies of Indian firms. Drawing upon the experiences of twenty firms, we postulate that firm strategies may be best understood as responses to certain strategic challenges, with the firms drawing upon certain...

NCA (1976) has estimated that 5.75 million tonnes of concentrates are needed to bridge the gap between availability and requirement. On the other hand demand for milk is increasing year after year due to population growth, and raise in per capital income. Hence demand for livestock feeds, for...