Worldwide concern with advances in life extension and enhancement technologies has brought together scientists, corporate managers and ethicists together in the world Forum on Tomorrows People, Oxford University to debate the pros and cons of the current path. My contention in this paper is to...

Extraction of local knowledge of people has gone on for a very long time without any reciprocity or accountability towards the knowledge providers. The paper looks at several kinds of accountability of researchers such as towards (a) providers, the communities, individuals and professional; (b)...

The paper defines Organizational Behaviour (OB) and indicates its relevance to management. It briefly describes some global trends in OB. Next, it discusses trends in OB research in India vis-a-vis quantity of OB research, the OB product-mix, shift from academic to socially relevant research,...

The focus of the paper was on understanding the process of capital structure management of development finance institutions (DFIs) using the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India as a case study. The results indicate that the development of the capital structure pattern of the...

The paper is a summary of a report submitted to the World Bank on the performance determinants of Indian Public enterprises. The study was based on intensive case studies of four engineering enterprises, all attached to the Government of India’s Department of Heavy Industry. The paper...

The study had two objectives : (i) to ascertain the corporate managers’ attitudes about the use of leverage, and (ii) to examine, in the light of the attitudes so revealed, the industrial pattern, trend and volatilities, of leverage, and the impact of size, profitability and growth on...

The paper provides a new decision rule for evaluating lease proposals. In doing so, it also explains why the decision rule suggested is superior to those suggested by other authors hitherto. The paper also discusses at length the debate of whether leasing is an investment or a financing decision...

The thesis of the paper is that OB can contribute richly to socio-economic development of poor Third World societies. It can do so through research on OB-related problems of the strategic organizations of these societies and on the strategic individuals and groups in these organizations. The...

Comprehensive tax reform has always been an integral part of the overall package of economic policy reforms introduced in a large number of developing and newly industrialising economies in recent years. A crucial ingredient of the tax reform is a large scale reform of the existing system of...

Indian organizations being part of the context of Indian society and culture reflect the juxtaposition of divergent, multiple and heterogeneous elements of two diverse cultures. One is the traditional agrarian culture of India and the other is the logical rational and technological culture of...