In the strategy literature a lot of emphasis is placed on growth as a dominant business strategy. Is growth always desirable? The finance literature, on the other hand, focuses more on economic profitability and value. This study empirically explores the significance of profitability and growth...

In the present study, attempt is made to explore the types of role stresses experienced by top and middle management personnel and to establish the degree of relationship among these role stress variables. ‘ORS Scale’ developed and standardized by Pareek (1983) was administered on a sample...

In this paper, we present comparative performance of box solar cooker fitted with reflective insulation and the cooker with the usual glasswool insulation. It is found that reflective insulation made of Alseal with one air space of 25 mm is as effective as glasswool of 50 mm thickness....

National capacity to deal with the deleterious consequences of the drought has certainly increased in the recent years. But the absence of death as an indicator of success of public policies for drought mitigation is not very dignified or creditable. This precisely was the claim of a national...

The paper presents results of the fourth part of the study on Productivity in PSEs. The aim is to identify enterprise level factors which significantly affect productivity in PSEs. The factors relate to the aggregate physical performance of various activities such as manufacturing, sales,...

This paper examines the likely developments on the industrial front on the basis of a diagnosis of recent economic developments. Special attention is paid to the possibility of an industrial recession emerging in 1975. The analysis indicates that while a generalised recession is unlikely to...

Training of rural development managers has attracted considerable attention in the recent past in light of the drive in the Central Government for upgrading the professional skills of development managers. However, the thrust is either training people at the lower levels or sending senior...

Everybody in India seems to be looking for the retail investor to come back to the market. He is badly needed because he is the major (rather only) source of providing risk capital. Portfolio managers (including FFIs) only shuffle around the holdings in existing scrips, but do not inject much...

This paper highlights the salient features of economic relations between India and the five member countries of the ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) grouping, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand since 1970. The paper is divided into four sections....