This paper provides a perspective on how Central Public Enterprises’ plan investments are financed. It reveals that although budgetary support continues to be a major source of financing Central Public Enterprises’ plan investments, its contribution has declined from 53% in 1984/85 to 46.9%...

The pioneering innovation (PI) mode of management was identified from corporate policies data supplied by the top management of 75 Indian organizations. The paper presents the determinants and organizational consequences of the PI mode of management. Implications of the findings for Indian...

Changes in agrarian structure are, usually, slow. But they indicate directions in which the economy is moving. One expression of such change is the changes in the land holding pattern. So long as land is the key variable in the economy of rural households, changes in size distribution of holding...

Farming systems research is an innovative approach to address the problems of resource poor farmers in less developed countries. FSR stemmed largely from the pioneering work of Collinson and that of Norman. The primary objective of FSR is to improve the well being of individual farming families...

Major changes are occurring in the sphere of work and management. While there is emergence of new time based and information based opportunities, some traditional office and business work opportunities are shrinking. Simultaneously, there is recognition of a new type of “Permanently...

Ours is an age of democracy. Democracy as a form of government, characterized by elections and the installation of a “representative government, has been becoming a global phenomenon. The fall of the socialist world and domestic and global changes in Latin America, Africa, and Middle East have...

An attempt has been made in this study to estimate the functional distribution of national income in Indian economy during the period 1960-61 to 1990-91. The study presents the estimates of the factor shares of labour, land and capital (including enterprise) not only for the economy as a whole...

In this paper, we take up the outstanding problem of axiomatically characterizing what we have 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...

A new proof of the maximum principle is established in this paper, for the simplest problem in optimal control theory.

The performance of a state depends upon how effectively it copes with its crisis points. These crisis points can arise because of arbitrariness, excessive bureaucratizaiton, insufficient democratization, insufficient participation of the people in the management of public purpose, incapacity to...