This paper addresses the issue related to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the context of ownership of online course materials in particular, the copyright. Several facets of ownership including issues related to the faculty owned course material and institute owned course materials have...

After the advent of self-service technologies in Indian banking sector, there has been a significant change in customers' service consumption pattern. As banking service has gone through a positive technological change, it should also be noted that any such change is not considered good unless...

The coastal region of Karnataka state namely Dakshina kannada and Udupi districts have made a niche in technical education since independence. These two twin districts have one of the highest literacy rates in the state. Many entrepreneurs have invested in education especially in technical...

After the advent of self-service technologies, there has been a great shift in the way customers interact with the service providers. Any change is not considered worth unless it is usable, understandable and finally adoptable by the user (Dix 2001). It is a challenging and daunting task to...

Productivity as a concept in both manufacturing as well as service industries is a function of inputs and outputs. Banking is a service industry with its product in the form of services. Where a firm's final output consists of some quantitative commodity, the concept of productivity in relation...

The purpose of this study is to examine the productivity in co-operative banking industry with special reference to Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka State. The study analyses the various parameters of productivity and the different analytical tools and techniques employed to analyse the...

Present tendency for everyone is to just run behind the return he is about to get with the investment made by his pocket with the expenses leaving to the environment. We need to earn money to live but not to kill Earth.When the Capitalist invest to make huge profit , they should also give due...

The Management Information System is a concept of the last decade or two. The role of MIS in an organization can be compared to the role of heart in the body. Most of the organizations be it small or large are using computer based information system with centralized, decentralized or distributed...

Many rural developmental programs have not yielded expected success by union and state governments in the country. When government or private sector systematically makes a forge into rural sector by offering the people quality services and if rural people consume the same optimally after coming...

A well developed financial system brings poor people into the mainstream of the economy and allows them to contribute more actively to economic development both individually and collectively. This is the essence of “financial inclusion”, a new paradigm in the economics of growth and...