Consider a group of people who have just been awarded a sum of money to undertake a consultancy for a research project. The problem that now confronts them is to share the revenue as well as the costs of the overheads involved in undertaking the project. In this paper we propose a proportional...

This paper reports the findings of a study to understand the logic of Indian ventures abroad in the 1980s and beyond. Three case studies are analysed in detail. The motives behind these ventures are compared with the motives of Indian ventures set up in earlier decades. Major differences are...

The paper examines the development strategy followed by Gujarat state government during the nineties. It has followed the strategy focussed on industrialisation and urbanisation with an open door policy eversince its inception in 1960. Economic reform measures at the Centre with an explicit...

In our philosophy, the legitimate role of social change in education has to move away from elitist orientation to whole society orientation. It is necessary to develop new value framework, attitudes, value orientations. These fall under three main orientations. The process of production of...

Designed as a follow-up of an earlier study, the present investigation aims at identifying Strengths, Weakness and a Desirable Future as perceived by the Senior Police Officers. The study revalidates the previous self-assessment of police performance and shows that while Police excels in...

There is a widespread concern world over about non-sustainability of present developmental strategies and structures in both developed as well as developing world. Most debates have however, ignored the relationship between the region of high biodiversity and high poverty (see IIM Working Paper...

It is a classified annotated bibliography of recent books on various aspects of change and innovation. The bibliography is meant for those who are concerned with educational innovations. The bibliography has been classified into four heads. (A) Social Change: General (theories and review, social...

Two period data on 51 items of management policy were obtained from the top managements of 75 Indian organizations (mostly private and public sector corporations). The policy items were classified into those relating to the business strategy of the organization (sub-divided further into growth...

This study investigates the existence of seasonality in Malaysias stock market. The study uses the monthly return data of the Kula Lumpur Stock Exchanges two indices - Composite Index and EMAS Index. After examining the stationarity of the two returns series, we specify a combined time series...

This paper attempts to make a forecast of the growth in private coprorate investment in 1981. Corporate investment is taken to cover gorss capital expenditures of all companies in private and joint sectors. The study also provides a picture of the level and composition of corporate investment in...