The paper contrasts two paradigms of management change that may increasingly compete for management allegiance: the professionalist, a analytical, bottomline oriented “McKinsey” mode and the participatory, collectivist, emotive, improvisation-oriented, values-based “movement” mode. Both...

This note argues that the GEB needs to be restructured urgently. The principal challenge is really to overcome that major ‘agency problem’ that results in leakage of enormous revenue. Plugging the leakages alone would make the GEB profitable at current average tariffs! The key elements of...

The pesticide industry is the most dynamic agricultural input industry in India, being substantially in private hands. Yet the pesticide use levels in India are among the lowest in the world. This paper presents an overview-analysis of the pesticide scenario in India. It develops a framework of...

In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the marketing pattern (use flows, physical flows, channel flows and fishermen’s share in consumer rupee) of fresh water fishes and to summarize the key areas for action to improve the marketing system and farmer’s share in consumer rupee....

Given a finite number of agents with utilities who wish to divide a finite number of commodities, consider the non-cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing utility functions and whose outcomes are coalitionally fair solutions to the underlying equity problem determined...

This paper makes an attempt to examine the existing housing conditions and quantify the extent of housing shortage in Indian economy. The main objectives of the study are: (a) to examine the growth and composition of housing stock; (b) to estimate the extent of housing shortage using alternative...

Indian corporate sector is on the threshold of a major restructuring wave, with a new round of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and demergers in the offing. This phase is likely to be qualitatively and quantitatively different from the earlier round in the first four years of economic...

We develop a general cutting plane based paradigm for three standard problems: lot-sizing, plant location and general network design, with and without capacity constraints. Other methods for solving these problems like branch and bound and Lagrangean relaxation have not performed well in all...

Recently there has been widespread debate on impact of protection on performance of domestic industry. It has been argued that protection to the Indian Industry during the last 40 years has resulted in poor performance of the industry in terms of productivity, technological development, low...

Agri-products are defined to include products of agriculture & allied activities, fishing, forestry, and manufacturing industries, like food & food products, tobacco, textiles, paper, furniture, etc. Gujarat has a revealed comparative advantage in the exporting activity over the other states...