A recent study of environmental scanning practices of larger Indian corporations (Dixit 1984) surprisingly finds a total absence of socio political factors in a list of twenty-five external factors considered to be most important by the sample of 24 companies. Though this study was conducted on...

This working paper gives a review of the work done in different fields of PSG over the years from 1975 to 1993. It consisted of two sections. Section I is the review itself which gives a flavour of the kind and variety of work done and explores where PSG could not move in its programme of...

An abiding problem in choice theory has been one of characterizing those choice functions which are obtained as a result of some kind of optimization. Specifically, the endeavour has concentrated largely on finding a binary relation (if there be any) whose best elements coincide with observed...

The purpose of the study was to i) to identify and determine the differential response profile for three levels in management, on the different measures of stress. ii) to identify and determine the differential response profile for the three levels in management on the different measures of...

In this paper we propose two different, yet related axiomatic characterizations of the Constrained Equal Award Solution for rationing problems. The solution itself and its implications are studied in the context of an item in the common minimum programme of the United Front government (which...

In this paper we show that the set of all bargaining problems is isomorphic to the set of all simple distribution problems.

The conceptual as well as operational aspects of autonomy of public sector enterprises are examined in this paper. The attention is focussed on such enterprises registered as public limited companies to the relative exclusion of departmental undertakings and public corporations. The role of...

Venture capital has developed in the Western countries on account of the need to provide non-conventional, risky finance for new ventures based on innovative entrepreneurship. There are not many empirical studies of the impact of venture capital. However, a few studies do exist in context of the...

In research on information integration by children, integrational capacity of a child is ascertained by the number of statistically significant main effects in analysis of variance for the child. Such an approach has an obvious bias, for the error variance may be bigger for younger but smaller...

Many situations require us to distribute rewards and resources between different members of a group. The members are often described with respect to their age, sex, experience, personality, and productivity. Distribution of rewards and resources requires that all these qualitatively different...