A specially designed air-cooling (and heating) system using Earth Tube Heat Exchanger (ETHE) was installed in the dwelling of a 15-year old white tiger (Panthera tigris) named Mahesh at Kamala Nehru Zoological Garden, Ahmedabad (India) in October 2000. This was done to alleviate the stresses...

The changes in the global trading scenario, particularly the emergence of regional trading blocs have far reaching effects on world trade. The proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comprising of Canada, Mexico and the USA s the latest one in this regard. It is feared that when...

Conservation of energy and protection of the environmental resources are two of the biggest challenges in planning for a higher quality of life in our communities and sustainable economic development for the society at large. This study models the pattern of energy consumption in all sectors of...

Study of careers has become an important aspect in the fast changing organizational context. It has come to be increasingly recognized at present, that career management is the responsibility of both the individual as well as the organization. This empirical study tries to understand the...

In 1969 fourteen commercial banks (six more in 1980) were nationalized to increasingly involve them in financing the developmental programmes in rural India. Subsequently Branch expansion policy was revised and reoriented in favor of rural areas. Regulatory controls for preferential allocations...

This is an empirical study based on the primary data from the sample of 208 small scale chemical units in Gujarat for the years 1986 through 1990. The details on the various dimensions of the structure, conduct and performance are presented, and the nexus among them is examined. The findings...

This paper deploys Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) to elaborate on the shortcomings of “mainstream” transfer pricing in multinational firms. Departing from the notion that multinationals increasingly (re-)organize their business along multinational value chains irrespective of...

Partnership with NGOs in delivering and provision of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services through mother NGO (MNGO) in the un-served and under-served regions is one of the important initiatives in India. The scheme involves large number of contracts between government and the NGOs. As of...

Reliable networks are those in which network elements have a positive probability of failing. Conventional performance measures for such networks concern themselves either with expected network performance or with the performance of the network when it is performing well. In reliable networks...

In this paper we have attempted to look at the various estimates that are currently available in relation to gross fixed investment in the corporate sector. These various estimates differ considerably among themselves not only in absolute amount but also in terms of year to year changes. Using...