The ever increasing role of the manufacturing sector in realising the dreams of establishing the ‘socialistic pattern of the society' can never be undermined in the context of Indian economy. Since independence a number of industrial policies were taken up to foster the growth of manufacturing...

The concept of ‘technology regime', featured by technological opportunity, appropriability of technology, cumulativeness of knowledge and properties of knowledge base, has become immanent in the process of the manufacturing sector undergoing changes in its nature of organization and process of...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Manufacturing Policies in India: A Disaggregated Analysis -- Chapter 3: Factors Affecting Financial Performance of Firms: An Exploration of Existing Research Works -- Chapter 4: Measurement of Efficiency of the Select Indian Manufacturing Firms and Its...