A segment of bulk export opportunities is generated by international funding agencies such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The share of Indian business in these opportunities, however, has been rather low. With a view to increasing the preparedness of Indian business in bulk...

The deterioration of India’s forests has been linked directly with the erosion of Adivasi (aboriginal inhabitants of peninsular India) cultures and their vulnerability to outside elements. Education for Adivasis, who normally speak their own language distinct from India’s dominant regional...

The well known Shewharts control chart for mean is constructed under the assumption that the distribution of underlying quality characteristic is normal. It is known that the performance of this control chart is seriously degraded if the underlying distribution is different from normal. Since in...

A watershed is a hydrological unit of space composed of interrelated drainage area with a common movement of water including all the consequential implications for land and water use. A micro-watershed is a coherent ecosystem at the smallest viable geographical area. It is administratively as...

Prediction of job performance from information about motivation and ability of subordinates was studied. Experiment 1 made the first test by manipulating reliability of information with managers (n = 22) and professors (n = 22). At the first stage of integration, subjects averaged motivation and...

This paper reports the findings of a survey to study the competitiveness of Indian manufacturing sector. The paper conceptualizes these findings in terms of priorities of Indian manufacturing firms, the programmes that they undertake to reach their objectives, and the outcome or the performance...

In this article, we examine in detail the reasons related to the declining operating and financial performance of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC). The contribution of various environmental and governance issues related to the decline of GSRTC are identified. Based on the...

Public sector enterprises account for a very substantial proportion of the manufacturing activity in India. Public enterprises (PEs) in India are rapidly diversifying their businesses as a response to environmental changes as well as to achieve their growth, profitability and other strategic...

A Subgraph S of a rooted acyclic graph G is called a rooted arborescence if (a) S contains the root as one of its vertices, (2) S is connected, and (3) No two arcs of S are directed towards the same vertex. This paper studies the problem of finding a minimum weight rooted arborescence in a...

Women’s career development in organizations is oftn different from that of men. Although competent women, like competent men aspire for top positions of leadership in organizations, such positions often elude them. This is because the dual role responsibility of women in the work and home...