This paper combines insights from law and economics to create a hybrid model that examines the U-shaped relationship between the strength of a country’s IPR protections and its level of economic development over time. This hybrid model is used to analyze whether implementing different levels...

Exporting has evolved to be one of the fastest growing economic activities in recent times. Increased interest in exporting can be attributed to changing economic conditions across the world viz. growing liberalization, integration and global competition, etc. However, in this highly competitive...

Fast changing economic environment has led exporting to be evolved as one of the fastest growing economic activities in the recent times. However, in this highly competitive global era exporting firms have to overcome several barriers in achieving superior performance in the international...

India`s exports nearly tripled in the 1990s. Decomposing export growth shows that it has been driven by incumbent firms rather than the entry of new firms. By using a new panel on Indian firms and estimating a dynamic discrete-choice model of the firm`s decision to export, we find evidence that...

Human resource is the most precious resource for every business in comparison to other resources like money, material, and technology as it cannot be replicated. Human capital is the only asset involved in all the operations of the enterprise right from the manufacture of goods to delivery to...

India, a late integrator in the global market for clothing, has followed a path to integration that is quite different from the experience of some of its major competitors. Unlike China, Mexico, Eastern Europe and other South Asian countries, India's recent surge in clothing exports has occurred...

Focusing critically on the effects of the conditions for foreign direct investment on sustainable growth in the recipient country, this paper analyzes the potential for investments in environmental innovations in India. The definition of sustainability applied in this paper incorporates economic...

This study investigates into the profit function of micro and small enterprises in Delhi National Capital Region, India. It is based on the sample data (for 8 years ending 2013) collected for 399 enterprises drawn from manufacturing and service sectors, size wise, registration status wise and...

The paper intends to study the relationship between firm size and growth, effects of entry-deterrent-strategies (EDS) on firms’ size distribution (FSD) and determining factors of inequality of firm sizes. One approach is the ‘Law of Proportionate Effect’ (LPE) hypothesis by Gibrat (1931),...

The burgeoning literature on outward foreign direct investment from emerging markets has largely focused on analysing the motives of investors as reported by parent companies. This paper, instead, focuses on firm-level investments originating from China, India or South Africa in fifteen host...