This collection addresses the relationship between business, the natural environment, ethics and spirituality with insights from economists, business scholars, philosophers, lawyers, theologians and practitioners globally. The contributions offer new and invigorating approaches to sustainable...

The economic growth of India during the decades of the 1990s and 2000s is well documented. There is, however, little available explanation for this growth and thus how this can be repeated. This book documents the unequivocal effort by some individuals and teams that fashioned globally...

This book examines the drivers of, and barriers to, participation of women in the Asian labour market for its socio-economic development and structural transformation. Based on original comparative research and extensive fieldwork, it highlights challenges that women across Asia face in gaining...

India has gone from an economy that grew less than 1.5 percent per annum until the 1980 to more than 6 percent today. In the process, it has cut the proportion of poor below the poverty line by half. This book offers the first comprehensive account of the policy initiatives leading to this...

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Accounting, auditing and governance in the SAARC group of nations -- Empirical study on determinants of environmental disclosure -- CSR focus in the mission and vision statements of public sector enterprises: evidence from India -- Corporate governance and...

Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies,.

Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness. In humans, physiological need is transformed into a multitude...

Intro -- Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a Successful Manager in the IT & Knowledge Industry -- Table of Contents -- Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a Successful Manager in the IT & Knowledge Industry -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement...

COVER -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Pulse Economy of India: A Macro View -- Growth Performance, Instability, Acreage and Yield Response of Pulse Crops -- Status of Pulse Production A District Level Analysis --...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Colophon -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Richard -- Mary -- Acknowledgements -- Part One: Communicating, Negotiating and Managing in India -- Chapter One: The Business Culture of India -- Business Culture: A Definition -- National Business Cultures -- Nordic...