The objective of this paper is to describe and discuss various patterns of organizations and their implications for functioning of industrial promotion corporations at state levels. This is based on the work done by the author. With one such corporation several years ago. It is expected that...

As a follow up of agenda 21, Government of Netherlands took an initiative of forming a four country partnership among Bhutan, Benin, Costa Rica and Netherlands. The idea was to explore what kind of reciprocity can be generated among developed and developing countries having different cultural,...

Persistent wage differential between male and female workers in any economy is generally sought to be explained by the hypotheses of job-discrimination or sex-discrimination. In the conditions prevalent in the Indian labor market, these two hypotheses do not appear to be convincing....

Indian Markets have witnessed substantial changes in the post-independence period. Using macro-data this paper tries to outline the major changes in consumer and industrial goods markets. The marketing system has been responding to, as well as responsible for, many of these changes. The emerging...

Consider the situation where one has to choose one among three differently priced birthday cakes, to give to a friends. It is very likely, that in the absence of strong personal reasons, one would select the cake whose price lies between the two extremes. A similar emphasis on the middle path is...

In this study I illustrate the usefulness of Fan Charts for a central bank and show how they can be used to present its viewpoint on likely paths of future inflation. Exploiting a bivariate unobserved components model, I use the methodology followed by Blix and Sellin (1998) to demonstrate how...

This paper first identifies major proposals being considered now for restructuring rural financial institutions (RFIs). It then discusses main reasons which may have prompted these proposals. These are (1) inefficiencies of multi-agency approach, (2) dependency of RFIs, (3) autonomy of RFIs (in...

In the present work it is argued that a group decision problem can be viewed as a problem in output choice of a regulated firm and conversely. Having developed the above isomorphism, we turn to a related problem: that of characterizing solutions to production planning problems which are...

The growth of an organization pulls people to change. Those who plan and initiate change grow. Those who do not, remain frozen in their roles and location. Organization Development and Design is a process decision which an organization makes to actively give shape and direction to the...

In this century of women’s emancipation, the socio-cultural world is called upon to address the issues of gender. The culture, society, religion and family, the four core coordinates of human existence have located women and men in specific social contexts, defined their roles, designed their...