This article examines the extent of disruptions in human resource practices of agile firms, and articulates how the human resource practices are disrupted owing to technology and culture forced. Human resources practices is compelled to adapt to the new design and style of functioning whereby...

The purpose of this paper is to present a critical review of prior literature relating to agri-food supply chain management. An in-depth analysis has been carried out to identify the influential information from the literature. This paper has identified gaps to be explored about agricultural...

This paper sheds light on privatisation as a global phenomenon rather than a forced policy on particular segments of the world. A simple and comprehensive review of literature about the privatisation across the world exhibits that privatisation has been implemented for different reasons....

This paper is an attempt to investigate the impact of economic reforms on the economic issues in Ethiopia. Different economic issues - parameters determining the effectiveness of economic reforms are separately discussed to measure how far Ethiopia has benefited from the reform policy. A simple...

This paper examines the response of higher education to globalization in India and discusses the major challenges that the globalization brought to higher education. The study used data over twenty five years, 1981/82-2004/05 and applied Ordinary Least Square (OLS) analysis with inclusion of...

This paper examines the linkage between privatization and social spending in the least developed African economies with reference to Ethiopia. Many previous studies have proved that privatisation has had a direct and positive effect on social welfare. The study used data over ten years,...

The main purpose of the paper is to investigate whether and to what extent the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India is integrated with the major mature markets in the US, UK, Germany and Japan. The dataset has been divided into: post Asian Crisis but before Euro Emerged (July 1997- January 2002);...