A characterization of totally unimedular matrices is given in the paper. This provides an iterative method directly applicable on the matrix itself to recognize total unimedularity or otherwise of any given matrix.

The pharmaceutical industry has featured prominently in various financial dailies and management magazines recently due to the government’s decision to sign the Dunkel Agreement. Over the years the industry has acquired significance due to the phenomenal growth it has experienced. In recent...

The paper reviews the research in Business Policy in India between 1970 and 1982. Annotations of individual research articles and books as well as the review, are presented under the following nine themes: (1) Industrial Analysis, (2) Business Growth and Diversification, (3) Leadership, (4)...

The purpose of this paper is (1) to highlight the rapid expansion of government activities in agricultural sector, (2) to discuss the areas and nature of management tasks in the light of expansion of activities, (3) to develop a framework for training courses in agricultural management, and (4)...

In this paper, we first provide several axiomatic characterizations of the indirect utility extension. The general problem we are interested in this paper is of the following variety: We are given a finite universal set and a linear ordering on it. What is a minimal axiomatic characterization of...

Renewable energy technologies, like biomas conversion, biogas, wind mills and solar devices are being actively promoted by the governments. Many of these technologies have reached a stage for commercialization. This paper reviews the processes and problems of commercialization of renewable...

Questionnaire responses were secured from the senior managements of 103 Canadian firms about their operating styles. The dimensions of top management style studied were risk taking, optimization, orientation, participation, structuring, and coercion. Based on cluster analysis of the data, a...

The economic arrangement of all social systems is now in the midst of a fundamental restructuring, necessitated by the crisis of varieties of command economies and bureaucratic regulation of production, distribution and exchange. New economic policy is meant to free the economy from the shackles...

Sustainability is an issue of escalating importance as a result of structural changes of organizations which are consolidating, downsizing, merging and outsourcing as well as due to the increasing complexity and unpredictability of the external environment. Understanding, assessing and managing...

In this paper we define the concept of strictly fair allocations in economies with public good and show that an equal income Lindahl Equilibrium allocation is strictly fair conversely if an allocation is strictly fair in every replication of the basic economy it must be an equal income Lindahl...