More than political constraints, an adherence to orthodoxy on the part of policy makers may have been responsible for the economy operating at well below the growth rate that it is capable of achieving. Part of the problem is orthodoxy’s (limited) understanding of the East Asian trade...

The recent disturbances in Gujarat were analysed and it was observed that the major cause of the disturbances was non-availability of foodgrains from the fair price shops particularly in the urban areas of Gujarat. This happened because both the State and the Central Governments failed to...

The paper reviews the state of rural management education in India. Using the setting up of the Institute of Rural Management Anand [IRMA] as a pivot, the paper examines the difficulties in establishing specialized management schools, the design of the curriculum and the management of the...

The badla system, which allowed transactions to be carried forward from one trading valan to the next, was banned by the SEBI in March 1994. SEBI was hoping that for the purpose of speculative trading, an internationally accepted system of options and index future trading would replace the...

The use of personality theory in consumer behaviour research has met with more disappointments than success. The belief that individual difference in brand preference or choice behaviour are caused by personality differences has not always been supported by empirical research. Keeping the...

The working paper is the survey of the work done in relation to large Indian business houses. It suggests the areas of further research and also a strategy for research in Indian entrepreneurial behaviour.

The paper purports to investigate the existence or otherwise of economies of scale in the Indian cement industry. The investigation is attempted through the estimation of cost-output (sales) relationships both from the time series and cross-section data and both at the industry level and at the...

Demand prediction for farm tractors is of interest to industry and government. Two different models were developed earlier. One termed a causal model, was similar to a model of a process driven by potential difference. The other was based on time series analysis. In this paper the performance of...

Development Administration has come on its own as an area of practice and study. It is differentiated from conventional administration by its emphasis on social and economic change. In the field of management, the concept of Social Marketing has been advanced and applied in many non-business...

Escalating costs of the pension system is forcing the Indian Government to reevaluate the formal programmes that provide social security to employees. The government has so far received three official reports (namely, OASIS, IRDA and Bhattacharya), which have examined the issue and suggested...