With increasing globalization, the intense competition and customer-pressure have spurred many producers from developing/ emerging countries to adopt the best management and organizational practices. The quality issues are paramount for automotive manufacturing. The multiplicity of Quality...

The motivations to implement environmental management system (EMS) practices in Indian industries are explored empirically. The study presents a survey of 104 industries from different sectors to identify the main motivational factors and firms' characteristics that determine the adoption of EMS...

The Indian automotive industry is a classic example of increasing export competitiveness and of emerging market multinationals. Employing a sample of auto component producer-exporters during 2010-2011, we examine the firm-level determinants of the 'Level' at which the firm exports - i.e. the...

In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment), seeking strategic assets. Such asset exploiting-cum-augmenting OFDI involves potential two-way cross-border knowledge flows. This study examines several dimensions of...

Trade intensities and net exports earnings are analyzed in terms of the firm size, foreign shareholding, R&D, technology import, and the global size, nationality & research intensity of foreign collaborator. For pharmaceutical firms in India we find no favorable effects of large firm size or...

This paper analyses export and import propensities and balance of trade at firm level, while focusing on the size, foreign ownership and degree of foreign ownership (DFO) impacts. The effects of technology import and MNE-size are also examined. Previous firm level evidence for India is in...

In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...

In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...

Book Review of B. Lindgren (ed.), Pharmaceutical Economics, Liber Forlag, Sweden, 1984, pp.286

This study examines the determinants of host-location of cross-border acquisitions by Indian Business Group (BG)-affiliates and other firms during 2000–2008. Our empirical estimates indicate the general attraction of host country market-size and double-taxation-avoidance treaty. However,...