The horror of India's urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI's that are used, the lack of any recognition of central place needs of different economic activities, the...

The manufacturing sector has contributed little to income growth and its share in total merchandise exports has been declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been in the informal sector, where workers are not...

Firms' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activity has become the subject of a large literature in recent years. This paper analyzes CSR activity using quasi-experimental variation created by Section 135 of India's Companies Act of 2013, which requires (on a “comply-or-explain” basis)...

Over thirty years have passed since the Bhopal chemical disaster began, and in that time scholars of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have discussed and debated several frameworks for improving corporate response to social and environmental problems. However, CSR discourse rarely delves...

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) offers a mode of reorganisation for distressed corporations. The IBC’s approach to corporate rescue limits the extent to which the incumbent management of a distressed corporation can participate in its rehabilitation. This is reflected in 29A of...

The involvement of business firms in the growth and developmental activities in order to internalise the society's resource loss is termed as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The present study examines the evolution of CSR regulations and its present status in India. India is the first...