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The Entrepreneur Makes a Difference : Evidence on MSE Upgrading Factors From Egypt, India and the Philippines

Hampel-Milagrosa, Aimée - 2019

In many low- and middle-income countries most micro and small enterprises (MSEs) struggle to upgrade into medium-sized and large enterprises. An extensive literature offers manifold explanations for the phenomenon but no conclusive answer on what the most important factors for MSE upgrading are:...

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A Study of the Construction of BCG Matrix for Nestle India

Jain, Tarun - 2008

Riding on the growth of its power brands, Nestle has extended its dominance in food business in India as well. However, a number of its brands require a repositioning. The present exercise is an attempt to analyse the position of the different brand offered by Nestle India. The aim is to assess...

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Exporting, R&D Investment and Firm Survival in the Indian IT Sector

Dzhumashev, Ratbek; Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013

This paper examines the effect of exporting and R&D investment on firm survival for a panel of Indian IT firms. We show that exporting has competing effects on firm survival. On the one hand, exporting and investing in productivity are complementary activities, while, on the other, exporting...

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Exporting, R&D Investment and Firm Survival

Dzhumashev, Ratbek; Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011

This paper examines the effect of exporting on firm survival for a panel of Indian IT firms. We show that exporting has competing effects on firm survival. On the one hand, exporting and investing in productivity are complementary activities, while on the other exporting activity is an...

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Work Life Balance and Women Bidi Workers

R., Hemanalini; Sugunambal, M.; K. R., Sathishkumar - 2009

This paper attempts to examine the work life balance of Indian women bidi workers. The work life balance has been the biggest concern for women workers. In the era of globalization the role of Indian women at home and work has taken a multifaceted dimension. India being one of the fastest...

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Leniency of the Competition Commission of India

Abraham, Vincent; Marvão, Catarina M. P. - 2022

The optimization of fines to deter and detect cartel behavior is one of the main goals of competition policy. Although … convictions by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) between 2009 and 2021, which is particularly useful to study this issue …

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Uncovering heterogeneity in the relationship between competition, corporate governance and firm performance using quantile regression on Indian data

Chakraborty, Indrani - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the relation between product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance in … competition increases. Besides, results depict heterogeneity in the conditional determinants of firm performance between … competitive industries. The findings therefore imply that competition acts as an external mechanism to discipline management and …

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Foreign investment and gender equality in India : competitive pressures or technology transfer?

Poole, Jennifer P.; Sharma, Shruti - 2024

values of foreign investments flow and the largest shares of women are employed. We expect increased competition associated …-level data from India to examine the differential effects on women relative to men of horizontal (measuring competition) and …

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Why are Adult Women Missing? Son Preference and Maternal Survival in India

Milazzo, Annamaria - 2017

This paper is the first to show that excess mortality among adult women can be partly explained by strong preference for male children, the same cultural norm widely known to cause excess mortality before birth or at young ages. Using pooled individual-level data for India, the paper compares...

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Determinants of female labour force participation in urban India : does outdoor air pollution matter?

Banerjee, Kaushiki; Ghose, Arpita - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 66 (2023) 3, pp. 815-832

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