This paper examines the entry of women in management and their career paths in the organization. Three phases can be distinctly identified. The first phase appears in the fifties. In this phase women, men and organization related to women in management with social structures and modes of...

We describe an O(n22k + n3k) algorithm for the uncapacitated network design problem where K is the number of commodities, and n the number of nodes in the graph.

The study analyses the changes in consumption pattern of foodgrains in India during 1960-61 to 1973-74 using data from NSS rounds. The changes in per capita consumption levels, consumer price, expenditures on foodgrains, income distribution and relevant elasticities are analysed. The analysis...

Over the past four decades, the freight movement output of the Indian Railways has increased substantially. The tonnes originating increased over fourfold from 73.2 million tonnes in 1950-51 to 302 million tonnes in 1988-89. During the same period, the net tonne kilometers (NTKMs) increased...

The IT industry (both software and hardware) is characterised by `vast consumer side scale and scope economies which are incomparably larger than in other industries with supply side network economies like pipelines or electricity distribution. In IT the supply side economies are also...

This is a paper on the nature of modern academic disciplines and an inquiry into the origin of their boundaries in the discourse of modernity and their contemporary inadequacy in the face of the challenges of the present and also those of the future. The paper argues that there is a need now to...

There has so far been little effort to develop a comprehensive sociology of Indian organizations inspite of the growing awareness of the significance of social and cultural aspects of organizations. The author stresses the need for sociology or organizations in the context of the central...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the export policy and performance of Indian export industries in terms of the criterion of net foreign exchange earnings and to analyze its implications for the formulation of a long-term export strategy for the country. The paper presents the results of...

In this paper the complexity of the modern state is examined with reference to the pressures under which it operates, and the mechanisms it employs of differentiation and integration. The reasons for the very large increase in the size of the state in this century, both in the developed...

Is 1993-94 a reform holiday to build a consensus in the country and a stronger political resolve to undertake a fresh EFF form 1994-95? A battery of committees suggests that, though the government has postponed the EFF negotiations until after the 1993-94 budget, the government is going to...