The study of organizational adoption of administrative innovations has been generally guided by the imitation hypothesis. This hypothesis states that, within a relevant population of firms, an innovation is first adopted by a select few innovators who communicate and influence others to adopt it...

Five awareness forecasting models embedded in their respective new product introduction models are compared. Conditions which govern the differences in the awareness estimates provided by the various models are delineated. Managerial implications of the results are discussed.

About the Book: This book is based on the idea of `holistic globalization` rooted in a dynamic interaction between four fundamental forces of Market, State, Community and Self. This leads us to a new global (`viswa`) vision of sacro-spiritual & sacro-civic society wherein there is a proper...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conduct a five-country study of consumers’ need for uniqueness (CNFU) and examine its research and practical implications. Most studies examining CNFU have used single country or US-based samples. To promote cross-cultural research, the authors test...

This paper presents an evolutionary journey of management thought through four phases viz. scientific management, human side, ethics and values and spirituality in management. Further, it presents three paradigms of management viz. American, Japanese and Indian in term of three key ideas viz....

This study seeks to analyse the relationship between exports and growth for 19 less-developed countries. It utilizes multivariate causality analysis based on the error correction model to address several important hypotheses. The results indicate that when exports have a causal influence in the...

This study deals with the issue of independent monetary policy and the stability of the domestic money demand function in the presence of currency substitution and capital mobility in five Asian economies. It is argued that money demand will be less stable and more difficult to control in the...