Using the managerial framework developed by R. Marris in 1963 to examine growth, profits, investment rates, inventory investment rates, external financing, and dividend rates, the authors scrutinize inter-firm variations in the performance to the large public limited companies (that is,...

The last two decades have witnessed that countries across the world are guided by the rules and regulations of multilateral trading institutions (for example, World Trade organization [WTO], International Monetary Fund [IMF]) in order to promote free and fair trade through gradual reduction in...

This article explores the possibility of associating firm size vis-à-vis industry size with firm-level R&D led-innovation and the resultant impact(s) on industry level output and price. We consider an oligopolistic industry having one dominant firm and some fringes. Innovation by the dominant...

The paper uses data on a cross section of industries in India for the period 1975-78 to explain inter-industry differences in profitability. Apart from being the first such study based on Indian data, it differs from previous studies in the choice of the skill variable and the analysis of the...