An excellent organization demands agility and versatility, associated with change, innovation and coupled with robustness and resilience, implying stability, sustainable advantage and capabilities that may evolve over time. In the past decade, most companies adopted restructuring and...

Purpose: The generic nature of business excellence models and arbitrary approaches followed by organizations to achieve excellence has triggered new approaches to attain excellence; one such approach is to have country- and industry-specific model. World Energy Council has developed an Energy...

This paper investigates the revenue-expenditure relationship in context of central and general category states in India. In particular the analysis is pertaining to the time period, 1973-2011. Unit root test in the presence of structural breaks is employed to determine the order of integration...

Classification techniques have been widely applied in the field of medical databases and have gained a lot of success. At present various classification algorithms are available in the literature and the problem of choosing the best method for a particular data set is faced by many researchers....

Over the last decade cross-country trade and investment flows have increased considerably, which is often linked to climate change concerns. The present analysis attempts to understand the influence of trade and investment flows on CO2 emissions through panel data model estimation for a set of...

As trade quotas have been eliminated under GATT and tariffs have been rationalized under WTO; the focal point of disputes and negotiations in international trade has shifted to non-tariff barriers (NTBs), particularly Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) standards. However, in the absence of any...

Friedman’s hypothesis regarding the relationship between inflation, inflation uncertainty and output growth states that full employment policy objective of the government tends to increase the rate of inflation which increases the uncertainty about the future course of inflation. Increase in...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of apparel sourcing issues and logistics performance variables of apparel exports from India. Cross sectional data has been collected and correlation technique is used to analyze the data set from a pilot study conducted amongst...