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Although there has been much theorising on the impact of Indias economic reforms of 1991 on Indian manufacturers, there is hardly any previous study that has taken up the task of actually asking the manufacturing firms as to what the true impact of economic reforms has been on them. In this...
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In this paper, we make an attempt to enquire into the politics of the government and business relation and how it affected the industrial development in general and expansion of manufacturing sector in particular in the state of Andhra Pradesh. In AP State Business Relations (SBR) have evolved...
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Trade policy has been a very contentious issue in the discourse on African development. Using panel data for 33 African countries spanning the period 1986-2000, we examine the relationship between trade liberalization and macroeconomic instability in Africa. We focus on instabilities in output,...
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employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on … monitoring. This should be especially useful in work systems where monitoring by supervisors is more difficult, such as teamwork … systems. We analyze the relationship between screening and monitoring in the context of a principal-agent model and test the …
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as monitoring, but also through agents intrinsic trustworthiness. Their relative usage, however, changes over time and … to potential returns. When monitoring becomes relatively cheaper over time, agents acquire lower trustworthiness, which … choosing governance methods tend to have higher monitoring intensities and lower trust. These results are consistent with the …
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employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on … monitoring. This should be especially useful in work systems where monitoring by supervisors is more difficult, such as teamwork … systems. We analyze the relationship between screening and monitoring in the context of a principal-agent model and test the …
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propping through profit transfers among firms within a group and better monitoring through group level directorial interlocks …
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In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...
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Over the last two decades electricity sectors in both developed and developing countries have been subject to restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory regimes. Although the effects of such reforms in a...
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The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to...
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