Using cluster analysis of questionnaire data from the top managements of 103 Candaian companies, seven styles of corporate top management were identified. Each style was a particular configuration of the orientation to risk taking, technocracy, participation, structuring and coercion. The...

To meet raw material requirements. Wimco.the biggest match industry in India, has been promoting popular based agroforestry thorough agroforestry projects approved by National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD) in the northern region of India since 1984. This study aims at...

In cooperative games with transferable utility, there is usually no restriction on the possible coalitions that can materialize. A significant departure from this tradition, occurs in Moulin [1995], where the concept of admissible coalitions arise. In this paper we consider cooperative games...

In this paper we obtain general inequality properties that max-min strategic solutions to Variable Threat Games satisfy under a set of very plausible assumptions.

The present study is an application of the principles of semiotic analysis to the content and the expression of the advertisement of Horlicks produced in 1994. The study derived a framework for semiotic analysis, which included, observing the traits of focal character, the technical aspects,...

In this paper, we take up the outstanding problem of axiomatically characterizing what we referred to in the paper as the additive choice function on the classical domain for choice problems. Apart from an impossibility result for the additive choice function, there is an axiomatic...

In this paper we study the problem of project selection as a group decision making problem and obtain a characterization of cost monotonic group decision mechanism. We furnish two examples of cost monotonic group decision mechanisms – the egalitarian mechanism and the egalitarian equivalent...

The planning and industrial development strategies followed in India so far have neither achieved the objective of employment generation nor availability of essential articles of consumption for consumers. The role to be played by Tiny and Rural Industries Sector in this context has been...

We study exact algorithms for several variations of the capacitated network design problem, all of which are known to be NP-hard. Exact algorithms are useful for telecommunication network design since the cost of installing networks is very high, and optimal solutions could provide substantial...

The problem of low productivity of rice in Eastern India is currently being discussed among the policy makers, academicians and technologists. This paper attempts to analyse the date of rice production, are and productivity of Eastern India and individual states for a period of 1971-72 to...