This report evaluates initial empirical studies on participation as well as the cross-national experience of workers participation in decision making. Though the more empirical studies show the effectiveness of participation, the cross national experience has not been all that encouraging. It is...

We, as individuals, would have often felt that there is something much more than our ‘traditional intellect’ or IQ, which opens the golden gates of success. This paper has attempted to answer as to what is this ‘something’. It is the ‘intelligence of the heart’ or EQ – “knowing...

Mainly Indian studies on Governance from Ecological Perspective during last decade were reviewed as a part of Third Survey on Public Administration organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. The importance of ecological or environmental issues has been realized in several...

This study portrays the locational pattern of the new factories started during 1960-70 in Gujarat among its districts. The aspects examined are: shares of incremental industrial activity going to each district, in aggregate as well as at the level of individual industry groups, relationship...

This paper is an attempt to distill the experiences of a small number of recent case studies of Indian companies in the process of internationalizing their operations. The strategies employed by these organizations in international business are analyzed using a `conceptual framework. tHe...

In this paper we consider binary relations which are reflexive and complete. Such binary relations are referred to in the literature as abstract games. Given an abstract game a (game) solution is a function which associates to each subset a non-empty collection of points of the subset. An...

Social Development Organizations (SDOs) have an important role to play in the social and economic development of the people particularly in developing countries following capitalist/mixed economy systems. However, many SDOs are organizationally ill-equipped to carry out their important functions...

Policy analysis as a major form of applied social science is a comparatively recent phenomenon in public systems. This paper examines the nature of methodologies in policy analysis and their relationship to social science theory and implementation of public programmes. It argues that...

This paper is designed to (i) comment on the work on agro-climatic regional planning done so far; (ii) discuss the role of agro processing industries in agroclimatic regional planning exercise underway; (iii) comment on the data collected on infrastructure activities; and (iv) comment on the...

The paper first reviews the available literature on social movements (SM). Following emerge: (1) Classical literautre on SMs have missed out or tended to ignore the organizational aspects of SMs (Section I) (2) The more contemporary literature on SMs do have organizational focus; however, their...