One way of increasing the social responsiveness of OB, especially in the Third World, is to increase its contribution to the effectiveness of strategic organizations, that is, organizations set up to, or desiring to, achieve social priorities, such as public enterprises. These strategic...

In this paper we represent bargaining solutions by means of a metric which is defined on games, whereby the solutions are precisely those payoffs which are closest to being unanimously highest. Subsequently we study the properties of “welfare optimal rules” and rationalizability of...

The Malaysian economy has been growing rapidly, with concomitant demand for telecom services. With a view to reducing the role of the government in economy and introducing efficiency, the government planned to corporatize public sector organizations as a first step forward privatization. The...

In May 1979, Accounting Standards Committee of U.K. has issued Exposure Draft 24 “Current Cost Accounting”. The purpose of this article is to prepare the BHEL financial statements for the last three years (1975-76, 1976-77 and 1977-78) on the basis of new guidelines available. The prepared...

This paper delineates the best practices that are commonly followed by world class management schools in their governance and pursuit of scholarly activities. It tries to highlight the processes required to become a world class institution and draws implications for schools in India that aspire...

Engineering goods have been a very important dynamic element in the changing structure of India’s exports during the last decade. In this research project, we have empirically estimated price and income elasticities of demand for our exports of 48 selected engineering goods to the world market...

International technology transfer has for long been an important source of technical know-how for Indian firms. In recent times the importance of this sources of know-how has increased substantially because of the increasing trend toward liberalization of the Government’s policies. Case...

Effective management of transfrontier operations of Multinational Companies (MNCs) requires integration of subsidiaries for global competitiveness and autonomy of subsidiaries for local responsiveness. With the increased turbulence in the environment it is increasingly important to these...

150 studies (including some case studies) done exclusively on public enterprises are comparative studies of public enterprises and enterprises in the private sector have been reviewed under five main OB dimensions (general, organizational dynamics, person in the organization, group and...

The extent of rural poverty has been noted to be unusually high in the Vavilov centres of genetic diversity. Be it rice in Orissa, India or potato in Peru, the cultivator preserving genes for diversity are unable to benefit from newer technologies. The regions of specialized cultivation with...