: The Indian economy registered significant growth after liberalization in the 1990s. The service sector and the manufacturing sector have been significant contributors to the growth of the economy. In this paper, an effort is made to understand whether the growth in the service sector had any...

While overseas acquisitions by emerging-economy firms are gaining increased attention from the business press, our understanding of whether and why this inorganic mode of international expansion creates value to acquirer firms is limited. We argue that international acquisitions facilitate...

The Indian Microfinance Industry witnessed one of the fastest growths in the recent times. However, the sticking feature of the growth is that the Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are concentrated in only some regions of the country. There is a huge geographical skew in the distribution of the...

In the last few decades researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds have addressed the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, leading to the emer gence of multiple and seemingly unrelated theories. Apparently, no unify ing framework exists in the literature that can bring these diverse theories...