The paper critically examines the accounting standards setting process in India and compares the Indian process with the processes prevailing elsewhere in the world. The paper concludes that the Indian standards setting process is neither transparent nor robust. Even though the Accounting...

Organizational structure has been the focus of many studies in recent years. In most of these studies, the compact of culture on organizational structure is not considered. This paper argues that cultural values of the members of an organization influence its structure significantly. This has...

Behavioural sciences have constantly attempted to bring greater rigour in their measurements. Tests and instruments represent one such attempt. The aim of the present research is to evolve and develop a scientific tool for measurement of the ‘learned helplessness’ (LH) concept. The authors...

This paper examines the role of state in reaching out financial services to the poor in India. The current players in reaching these services include the formal banks and co-operatives. In addition, there are several voluntary efforts that are being undertaken to ensure that financial services...

Vehicle rental providers offer differentiated services to reserve and walk-in customers. In this research, we study one such service differentiation strategy, a vehicle threshold policy, which is to hold vehicles for reserve class customers in anticipation of their future arrivals. To consider...

It is a well known fact that race and ethnicity specificc variations exist in the treatment and survival of cancer patients. Studies based on breast cancer patients admitted to community hospitals in U.S depicted that there is significant difference in patterns of care between black and white...

It has been evident from our long human history that luxury has been present in one or other form of consumption practices and that the luxury goods have existed for ages, dating back to Roman times, where luxuries such as silks were consumed for status, respect, and pleasure to the reformation...

Despite decades of research, the relationship between international diversification (ID) and performance (P) represents a quandary in the field of International Business.. Though, there seems to be some consensus among scholars on the non-linear nature of the relationship; researchers in the...

Recognizing that national competitiveness depends on the availability and quality of national Information and Communication Technology networks that support higher education (HE) and research, many countries have developed such infrastructure for their publicly funded HE and research institutes....

We have looked at the relationship between organisational processes/ mechanisms for development, adoption and implementation of national knowledge network in the institutes of higher education and research and the organisational and individual level outcomes in those institutes. Our findings,...