This paper was explored and identified organizational realities through a process of discussion and the dialogues with CEO’s employees across various levels of hierarchy of the organization. This paper has identified five critical dimensions and characteristics of growth and patterns of Indian...

The paper argues that organizational culture plays a central role in building and sustaining institutions. The process of institution building and sustenance is analyzed using institutional economics and collective action frameworks. The paper examines culture at IIMA, what it was, and is, how...

This paper analyses the strategic and organisational reasons for the failure of development programmes. The analysis of a selected Indian public health programme, namely, Goitre Control has been attempted to bring out the mix of factors responsible for poor performance. It is argued that the...

The establishment of the new institution of the regional rural banks (RRBs) in India since 1975 has aroused a great deal of interest and controversy among the policy-makers and observers of the Indian economy. The purpose of this paper is to examine the background and salient features of the...

This paper provides tax functions when product and input markets are subject to imperfection simultaneously. These functions are estimated for the industrial sector of the Indian economy. It comes out clearly that such functions can be used as instruments to promote efficiency in production and...

Based on a review of the Airlines Alliances in various parts of the world, the paper comments on the choices before India. It develops the basic contours of strategy for growth of Indian Aviation and notes the role of the government in this context. It suggests a step-wise approach starting with...

My interest in multi-criteria decision making is mainly due to my interactions with my colleague Professor P.R.Shukla. I have had the benefit of many useful discussions on this topic with Professor Prakash Abad, as well. The application of multi-criteria decision making studied in this paper, is...

Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of their institutional research. In this paper, I share a few examples of...

This paper reviews researches on the psycho-social aspects of inequality under four specific areas: physical setting; religion race and caste; disability; sex. The review follows a proposed model which considers social inequality as a function of social structuring. Through a process of...

The most common and popular approaches to safety have been technologically and engineering oriented. Recent resarch, however, indicates that it is possible to develop an effective approach to occupational safety based on the behavioural and social sciences. The paper demonstrates the practical...