E-commerce firms either sell physical products or information-based products or services. Consistent with the theory, the findings of this study confirm that the information goods/service-based business model has a better or higher valuation (price-to-sales ratio or PSR) compared to physical...

In this paper we show that essentially the only mechanism which is strongly fair in an economy with production is the equal income marginal cost pricing (EIMCP) mechanism. A variant of the analysis would prove that the only mechanism which guarantees strongly fair net trades is the marginal cost...

Middle managers are expected to play a critical role in translating organisational policies and strategies into practice and action. They have an important role in providing information/input to strategy formulation, and in motivating and energising employees at lower levels but studies in some...

This paper explains the mechanics of badla trading and settlement. It reviews badla transactions, fixation of havala rates and margins, the market process of determining the badla rates, and payment procedures. The accounting mechanism for carry over business illustrated with hypothetical...

Like many areas of business, portfolio management is both an art and a science. It is much more than the selection of securities from a catalog by a financial consultant or the application of a formula to a set of financial data input supplied by a security analyst. It is a dynamic...

The subject of this case study is the role of intellectual property rights in the benefit-sharing arrangements surrounding the gene Xa21 of Oryza longistaminata, a wild rice from Mali, which was isolated, cloned and patented at the University of California at Davis. A specimen of Oryza...

In most developing societies there has been a decisive shift towards economic liberalization, that is, towards deregulation and globalization of the economy. Liberalisation has two majhor consequences for the corporate world: intensification of competition and increase in growth opportunities....

The study illustrates the use of means-end chain analysis in sharpening of segment for advertising to influence social behaviour. MECCAs model has been used to develop the ad strategy.

The present paper is an inquiry into the possibility of criticism of tradition on its own terms, which however leads to its desired transformation. The paper discusses two types of such connected criticism—philosophical and prophetic. The paper argues that it is the prophetic criticism which...

Inland fishery resources can be classified in terms of rivers, fresh water ponds, reservoirs and brackish water bodies (ponds for culture, term’s farms for capture/filtration, lakes, swamps and estuaries). Some States have made an attempt to license the river stretches to the fishermen for a...