Public sector enterprises account for a very substantial proportion of the manufacturing activity in India. Public enterprises (PEs) in India are rapidly diversifying their businesses as a response to environmental changes as well as to achieve their growth, profitability and other strategic...

Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving fairer representation in the legislature, for selecting in good and...

Competition between organizations is a pervasive feature of many societies. It is structurally present when the pay-off relations between alternative uses of resources and/or alternative suppliers are zero sum or variable sum. Competition affects the structure and functioning of competing...

Three styles of top management, labelled entrepreneurial, professional, and conservative, were empirically derived from cluster analysis of policies and practices data from a sample of companies. Eleven hypotheses were developed of the relationships between external environmental change and...

Restructuring activity has picked up in corporate India, and many of the largest Indian companies have been opting for the services of Western international management consultants (WIMC). The writings of some of these consultants indicate the sort of restructuring they tend to favour. Recent...

Growing corporate sickness seems to be a global phenomenon, at least in the world’s market-oriented economies. But the causes of sickness may differ as between Third World countries like India and the developed Western economies. After reviewing Western and Indian work on sickness, the paper...

It is argued that organizational is worth probing because it may play a significant role in human evolution. Organizational greatness is postulated to require both performance excellence vis-à-vis organization centered, conventional indicators and exalted conduct or contribution of a moral,...

An increasing number of public enterprises from India and other developing countries are internationalizing their operations, and some are even turning into multinational corporations. The paper discusses some of the motives for internationalization as well as factors facilitating and inhibiting...

Failure of bureaucracy has prompted many efforts at reforming it. But administrative reform has failed in many developing countries, including India, for a variety of reasons. The costs of the bureaucracy’s malfunctioning are huge. Any attempt to recharge the Indian bureaucracy would need an...

Questionnaire based data from 47 Indian corporations indicated interesting causal linkages between goals of top management and the level of job satisfaction of the relatively lower level of management vis-à-vis various job factors. three hypotheses were assessed, namely, that each goal...