This paper presents the findings of a study aimed at understand the environmental scanning practices in large private sector corporations in India. The findings of the study are as follows: a) Developments in the input, marketing and regulatory environment are of primary concern to large Indian...

We are living in the midst of very fundamental processes of transformation which are global in nature and which touch almost all the domains of our lives, transforming both the contours of our lives and the horizons of our culture. Postmodernism refer to those processes of transformation, which...

In hot, arid regions, yields are usually low and unstable. Greenhouse technology can stabilize and improve yields. But its adoption is impeded by the requirement of large amounts of water for cooling. Evaporative cooling is the most common method. Arid Area Greenhouse (AAG) is being developed...

We study the uncapacitated and capacitated one facility versions of the two commodity network design problem. We characterize optimal solutions and show that we can restrict the search for optimal solutions to feasible solutions with at most one shared path. Using this characterization, we...

India with its one billion people contributes to about 20% of all maternal deaths in the world. Even though infant mortality has declined in India maternal mortality has remained high at about 540 per 100,000 live births. Recent scientific evidence shows that access and use of high quality...

Gujarat’s industrial sector has substantially gained form national policy of liberalization particularly after 1990-91. The state has also followed consistent policies and taken further measures to liberalize the state economy and simplify certain procedures to promote industrial activities....

Indian Railways (IR), which was declared to be heading towards bankruptcy as per the Expert Group on Indian Railways in 2001, is today the second largest profit making Public Sector Undertaking after ONGC. The fund balance crossed Rs.12,000 crores in 2005-06, which had reached a low of just...

In this paper we provide a general framework for studying threat bargaining games with correlated beliefs. In this framework we obtain a characterization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution without any monotonicity assumption. The approach adds a dose of realism to the already existing literature...

The question of initiating the process of application oriented education in International Marketing in countries like India is examined. Problems and issues in offering suitable programmes in this area for students of management and practising managers are elaborated.

This paper was written when I was visiting the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST), ENSAE (France) during November and December 1993 on a French government fellowship. I would like to thank my hosts for the congenial research environment which made writing this paper possible.