Questionnaire based data from 47 Indian corporations indicated interesting causal linkages between goals of top management and the level of job satisfaction of the relatively lower level of management vis-à-vis various job factors. three hypotheses were assessed, namely, that each goal...

Illustrations, generally composed of subjects, objects, symbols, letters and their combinations, have great value of providing detailed information not easily amenable to written descriptions. While commenting on the discriminating values, properties, and characteristics of the visuals in...

In this paper we propose and axiomatically characterize the Logarithemic Relative Egalitarian Solution for social choice problems.

The paper focuses on the rates of growth of total net national product (NNP) and NNP originating from the agricultural sector vis-à-vis the non-agricultural sector. It is based on time series of NNP at 1960-61 prices for the period from 1950-51 to 1975-76. Despite the significant changes in the...

When the role of the state is being redefined in the wake of recent economic crisis, a discussion on making public systems and enterprises more responsive to social concerns may be quite appropriate. But that was not the only reason for taking upon this initiative of bringing out a special issue...

Much has been written on bio-gas plants as a solution to energy crisis and for overall benefits to the rural community. In the review of literature the strategy adopted by the government of India to encourage setting up small-sized individual farm-based units or large-sized community plants...

Behaviour simulation has been used for teaching various concepts. The paper describes a game which can be used to teach the dynamics of inter-group collaboration. It gives details about the game, how to use it in the classroom, how to process the experiences people have while playing the game...

Poor agricultural growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is sometimes attributed to the absence of major technological breakthrough. It must be recognized that there is enough scope to raise agricultural production under the prevailing technological environment by removing many deficiencies in the...

In this paper we model threat bargaining problems as fixed threat bargaining games (with the threat point at the origin) and show that the utilitarian solution to threat bargaining problems is not manipulable.

In General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, J.M.Keynes made the observation – “ …the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both wen they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical...