The rise and fall of a number of dotcoms has attracted a lot of attention in business press, but there does not seem to have been any in depth study to understand the economic logic of dotcom businesses. A close analysis of these businesses would show that many of them actually do not have any...

This paper examines the nexus between new technology for an open access land resource and an institutional set-up for establishing and managing tree plantations as a common pool resource. The Vankars, a scheduled caste of a coastal saline region of Gujarat, combined their knowledge of local...

1432 Considering the Marshallian concepts of producers’ and consumers’ surplus this study examines the total economic gain from technical change in rice production in India and its distribution among producer-cum consumers (PCC) and non-producer consumers (NPC) at two points of time viz.,...

This paper attempts to identify areas which offer good prospects for Indo-Canadian cooperation based on a study of industries where the existence of a 5-20 year technological gap makes Canadian technology particularly appropriate. It is argued that the Free Trade Zones (FTZ) and 100% Export...

The paper discusses the concept relating to entrepreneur, entrepreneurship and management. Its major focus is to relate these concepts to small industry, small businesses or small enterprises. Small enterprises resent a comprehensive universe which includes tiny and small industry and several...

With the increasing importance given to the power development programmes in the successive Five Year Plans, proper and effective financial management of the State Electricity Boards (SEBs) have progressively become significant. The need for financial information with regard to SEBs’ operations...

Classical EOQ model assumes that the ordering cost A is constant and independent of lot size. This paper deals with the case when A depends on the lot size and increases at a decreasing rate. Firstly A is assumed to increase in steps as a function of lot size . In both cases models are analyzed...

The Feldman-Mahalanobis model has played a very important role in shaping the industrialisation strategies of China and India and, of course, earlier the Soviet Union. An unstated, but crucial assumption in this model is that there exists a sufficiently large surplus of wage goods in the...

Institution building is only one phase of the institutional life cycle. After an institution is built, it must grow, and mature with a healthy long life. Thus, aspects of institution maintenance, and arresting of institution erosion, and institution decay for sustained excellence become...