This paper attempts to answer the following questions through an indepth analysis of the process of development of an environmental scanning and reporting system in a large multi product multi unit company: a) How can a company acquire capability to scan the environment and develop a system for...

In the context of the ongoing debate on corporate governance in India, this paper discusses the importance of ethics and values in corporate governance and underscores their importance in fulfilling the raison detre of the business enterprise, viz. delivering shareholder value. The paper...

This study makes an attempt to examine the impact of errors in the specification and measurement of capital input on the estimates of time series production functions in Indian manufacturing. For this purpose, it examines the main alternative measures of capital input generally used in the...

The Thai economy has been registering high economic growth rates since late eighties. The average growth rate has been around 10 percent per annum. Consequently, the business opportunities have increased, creating a demand for greater telecom services. However, the investments in telecom sector...

In this paper, I first discuss the key concept of IPR and its relevance for our conditions. I particularly refer to the opportunities that exist globally with specific reference to patent expiration, biodiversity based drug development. I also review the recent trends in filing patents based on...

Recent favourable and unfavourable changes in the government policies have prompted many corporations to review their corporate strategies. This has pointed to the need for monitoring the government policy environment formally and systematically. This paper discusses the types of influences the...

Present study is an attempt to explore the relationship between factors of role stress, Type-A pattern of behavioural disposition and State-Trait anger among three categories of management personnel. A battery of three psychometric instruments, namely, ‘ORS Scale’, ‘State-Trait Anger...

There is a widespread concern all over the world about the emerging tensions in the local, regional and global dialogues on relationship between formal and informal knowledge systems. It is realized that the basic social contract between knowledge producing communities and the knowledge...

The main conclusion emerging from the analysis is that the inflationary impact of a budget deficit depends upon the method used to finance that deficit. Using a static and a dynamic macroeconomic model it has been shown that the proportion of budget deficit financed by money creation is a...

In this paper we formalize the framework of an arbitration game, to accommodate a large class of situations where public decisions are implemented in a noncooperative setting. We then present a method of computing the equilibrium strategies of the players under assumptions of bounded...