The paper attempts to examine the role of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and technological efforts in determining the export competitiveness of firms belonging to the pharmaceutical sector in India. M&A provides synergistic gains to firms. New competitive advantages arise from the...

Increasing energy consumption has been one of the major issues in the environmental and industrial economics in the context of global climate change. Recent literature has dealt with several methodological and application issues related to the technique of decomposing changes in industrial...

This paper is an attempt to understand the relationship between the labour and energy intensity for firms drawn from pulp and paper industries in Indian manufacturing. Pulp and paper industry accounts for a considerable share of the industrial enterprises, production, employment and exports in...

This study focuses on the role of different sources of technology in determining the energy intensity of the firms. Using data from the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), we model energy intensity and different sources of technologies usage. The major finding of the study is; firms...

This study attempts to find out the relationship between exports and Participation in Clean Development Mechanism [CDM] in the technology intensive industries in India. Data are used from the PROWESS, CMIE and the VCU (Verified Carbon Units) database from 2007 to 2012. Results of this study...

The last two decades have witnessed that countries across the world are guided by the rules and regulations of multilateral trading institutions (for example, World Trade Organization [WTO], International Monetary Fund [IMF]) in order to promote free and fair trade through gradual reduction in...

This paper attempts to analyse the determinants of growth of Indian automobile firms during three different policy regimes, namely licensing (1980-81 to 84-85), de-regulation (1985-86 to 1990-91) and liberalisation (1991-92 to 1995-96). The analysis broadly follows the evolutionary theoretical...