This paper examines issues which arise in designing Indian organizations for global business. Drawing upon 2 years of research with 14 observed Indian cases, the paper discusses organizational designs actually observed and postulates design considerations which may be more appropriate, given the...

Subjects who scored low and high on Fiedler’s least preferred coworker scale were provided with information about behavior and performance of two workers of several groups, and were asked to distribute a fixed sum of money between the two workers of each group. The principal point of interest...

Some recent comments on the crisis in psychology have suggested some dimensions requiring attention. A multi-dimensional framework of relevance is suggested to deal with this problem. Relevance is defined in five elements and the problems of five types of relevance are discussed: conceptual...

The first significant use of Zorn’s Lemma in rational choice theory is in the paper by Szpilrajin(1930), where it is established that every strict partial order can be embedded within a strict linear order. Subsequently, Dushnik and Miller [1941] showed that every strict partial order is the...

The derivation of “optimal allocation” of sample sizes to different strata in stratified random sampling does not take into account the integrality, non-negativity and upper bound restrictions on the sample sizes. One of the consequences of this is that the formula at times requires more...

This paper briefly recapitulates the events during the recent plague epidemic in India with specific focus on suspected pneumonic plague cases in Surat City. The paper discusses three key questions which are as yet unanswered. These questions are: (a) The exact nature of the disease,...

The emerging contours of a borderless wold are becoming visible in the last decade of the 20th century. The domain of the state is being redefined in the economic life of nations, and in the relations between them. In this context, it is observed that a broad sweep of nearly 2,000 years of South...

In this paper we consider two games which generate A-envy free allocations in a pure exchange economy with a fixed supply of resources and agents’ preferences being representable by utility functions. The first game is “classical divide and choose” whereas the second game is “equal...

In this paper, we present a unified theory for solutions to games of fair division, which are ordinal in nature and appear as non-symmetric variants of the equal income market equilibrium solution. We characterize the entire family of such solutions using consistency, converse-consistency,...

This paper views the exercise contained in the Final Fifth Five Year Plan (of India) as a response of the planners for the revision of the Draft Fifth Five Year Plan due to several changes in the environment both within India and in the International economy during the first two-and-a-half years...