Using a sample of 291 banks from 35 OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member Muslim countries with 2078 bank year observations from 2003 to 2010, we analyze if bank earning management in terms of Loan Loss Provisioning (LLP hereafter) is affected by the banking nature whether Islamic or...

IT companies are knowledge-based organizations and their success depends upon human resources. To maintain a pool of highly productive IT professionals, organizations allocate considerable amounts in their budget for HRDP to develop and retain them. In this way, the principal point of the...

The relationship between development-oriented HR practices and organizational performance has been underrepresented in the literature. This research sought to better understand the possible linkages of development-oriented HR practices and organizational performance in IT companies in Bangalore....

Globalization and market penetration induces organizations to adopt such practices that can provide development and learning opportunities to the employees. Organizations allocate a considerable amount in their budget for the intervention of HRD practices. This strategy makes the employees as...

This note raise many policy issues related to real estate and the urban sector. Urban issues and the very high cost of real estate in India have deep rooted problems that have their origin in the policy, law and working of government. The potential of high growth to deliver benefits to people...

This working paper confines its scope to performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). It examines the progress of NAIS in India and in one selected state, Gujarat. The two dimensions considered are coverage over time and across the states. It is further disaggregated for...

This working paper confines its scope to performance of National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS). It examines the progress of NAIS in India and in one selected state, Gujarat. The two dimensions considered are coverage over time and across the states. It is further disaggregated for...

Since material handling agents in a FMS are most efficient when moving in straight lines, a common layout of machines in a FMS is a single row layout. This allows a floor designer to model the problem of generating an optimal machine layout in a FMS as a single row facility layout problem...

The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India. The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having mapped out the size of this sector, the study develops a way of classifying them into two categories on the basis of...