The primary motivation of this study is to explore the field of elementary education in the Madhya Pradesh region of India from gender perspective. With only 3 years in hand to achieve the goal of universal education for all as per Dakar declaration, it assesses the extent to which the basic...

Purpose: A significant amount of work has been done on new product development (NPD); however, studies on the flexibility aspect in NPD are scant. This study aims to investigate the relationship between NPD flexibility and five infrastructural factors, namely, marketing and manufacturing...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel hybrid approach to assess marketing-based flexibility with respect to its source factors, enablers and attributes. Design/methodology/approach: The study demonstrates an application of a hybrid principal component analysis...

This paper examines the decision of indigenous people to enter self-employment with special reference to Jharkhand. The indigenous people in India, better known as scheduled tribes, are aligning themselves with the mainstream population, albeit rather slowly. They are leaving their traditional...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate investor behavior under two broad categories, market-wide sentiment and herding. Design/methodology/approach: Using a dynamic factor model, that extracts distinct latent factors representing fluctuations in asset returns due to changes in...