Nirmithi Kendra at Quilon is unique in many respects; its concept as well as its management practices are innovative. It was established with the objective of disseminating low cost housing technology. Nirmithi has influenced change peoples’ notions about housing and has succeeded in sowing...

In several cases where self-consumption of the production by the proucer-cum-consumer is important, public policy debates often consider inter alia the issue of backward bending supply curve of the product. In the present paper, the sufficient condition for obtaining an individual’s backward...

The normal procedure to deal with multi-item inventory situation with restrictions is to obtain the e.c.q. of all items individually and to check for violation of restrictions assuming that the replenishment of all the items may occur simultaneously. In case of violation of restrictions the...

These comments on the Draft Bill 2001, had been widely circulated in September 2001. Discussions on the Bill have again revived in the media and elsewhere, as the reform of the power sector has made little headway, and there is much concern that something needs to be done. Little progress or...

The informal credit suppliers give credit both in cash and grain, and for any purpose. They recover credit either in cash or grain or labor. Such terms and conditions suit most to the credit users whose demand for subsistence credit is acute and who have extremely limited and even stagnant...

This paper as an exploratory attempt, presents the facts which will provide some insight into the nature of the July 1973 disturbances, makes a preliminary diagnosis of the causes for the disturbances and suggests some possible areas for further research. It was found that the three-day rioting...

Management style is defined to be the distinctive way the management of an organization carries out its various functions, in this exploratory study, ten archetypal styles of top management are described, operationally defined, and measured vis-à-vis a sample of 90 Indian corporate...

The paper provides the experience of setting up first incubator for grassroots innovations in the form of GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) and make a case for replicating this model elsewhere in the developing world.