An agro-industry is an enterprise that processes bio-mass, i.e. agricultural raw materials, which include ground and tree crops as well as livestock and fisheries, to create edible or usable forms, improve storage and shelf life, create easily transportable forms, enhance nutritive value, and...

This study assesses and compares, on select criteria of evaluation, the time series of daily term structure estimates provided by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) [using the Nelson-Siegel (1987; NS) methodology] with author’s own estimates of NS, Svensson (1992; SV) and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (1985; CIR)....

This paper explores the concept of structures, systems, and culture. It then examines the concept of interface and it gets influenced by the cultural processes. Indian oragniztions are squarely caught with the individual-authority interface anchored in personalized relationships. To design...

This paper provides a perspective on how Ghana has managed her public sector finances since the inception of the economic reforms programme in 1983. It reveals that Ghana continues to have a deficit in her public sector finances – Ghana’s current public sector deficit (5.5% of GDP) is of...

Restructuring activity has picked up in corporate India, and many of the largest Indian companies have been opting for the services of Western international management consultants (WIMC). The writings of some of these consultants indicate the sort of restructuring they tend to favour. Recent...

In recent years there has been an increasing concern regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of technology institutions (TIs). This has prompted several developing countries to launch programmes to restructure their TIs to respond to the changing needs of industry which are undergoing a...

1174 The paper presents the results of a field study covering 25 foundries and 5 institutions involved in education, consultancy, and R&D in the foundry sector. The field study was supplemented by interviews with foundry experts in the country and a review of the literature on the Indian foundry...

This paper aims at integrating areas of formal planning system and decision-making with project identification of an entrepreneur, a development agency or corporation. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) Analysis of the development process, 2) the major factors and forces which provide...

In this paper we show that the similarity based preference for freedom of choice defined by Pattanaik and Xu (2000), can be uniquely characterized by Indifference Between No-Choice Situation, Strong Monotonicity with respect to the similarity relation and Weak Composition with respect to the...

Technology transfer is an important means by which developing countries gain access to technologies that are new to them. Most technology transfer has between developed and developing countries through commercial technology transfers by the private sector. These include transfers through foreign...