Industrialisation of backward areas has attracted the attention of governments all over the world, both developing and advanced. These efforts vary from direct investment to indirect assistance. This paper reviews the scheme of assistance offered, broadly categorised as physical financial and...

Data were collected on 778 Indian and 620 Nigerian employees representing a variety of organizations. A comparative study was made to see the effect of 7 personal characteristics (Age, Sex, Marital Status, No. of dependents, years of education, years of experience, and annual income) on job...

The paper begins with the exploratory concept of ‘mass customization’ and then moves on to discuss the possibility of applying it in business communication. Further, it gives a brief framework within which to fit this concept. The author then argues the relevance of the concept in today’s...

In the decades since independence, the jute industry underwent a sharp eclipse as exports and profits declined, technology remained stagnant, mills closed and workers were thrown out in large numbers. In 1986 a Jute Modernization Fund was created by the central government in order to revive the...

The paper discusses the meaning and scope of agroforestry, and reasons that subsistence of rearing of unevenly scattered and spares natural trees, the sole cropped from forestry, and the Taungya system can not be considered agroforestry. Agroforestry systems, on the contrary, may include - parts...

In the context of Indian industry, this paper argues that in the presence of capital market imperfections and sub-optimal contractual arrangements, small firms face higher transaction or selling costs in the domestic market. One of the strategic responses by small firms towards overcoming the...

The author describes the various organizational, social economic and political factors which contributed to the emergence and development of trade unionism in the banking industry. The structure of unionism in this industry is examined in the background of the generate trend of the trade union...

The paper attempts a broader, systems definition of the agriculture sector. It tries to establish the relevance of managerial concerns to tasks of decision-making in the agriculture sector. This is done through brief illustrations of concrete situations. Finally, the approach as followed in the...

This paper was prepared as a script for the S.D. Punekar Memorial Lecture delivered at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay. It contains an attempt to review the state of art in trade unionism in India in the background of the mounting concern within and outside trade unions about the...

The present paper reviews the research literature Organisation Behaviour in India between 1970 and 1979. It identifies three dominant themes in the literature, viz. Person themes; Process themes and Action themes. Over 50 per cent of the research is still on Person themes with its moorings in...