PPP mode of investment in Indian ports has made a significant headway and is preferred for investments today. The 12 major ports and about 200 minor ports along the 7,500 km coastline of the country have together traded about 935 mt of cargo in 2012-13. The traffic is growing each year. The...

Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for the direction of causality for growth and inflation, and short-run costs...

Small, informally organized retail grocery shops called kirana shops are ubiquitous in contemporary India and have historically existed as a dominant form of organizing in the Indian retail context. Despite increased competition from the relatively recent emergence of organized retail, kirana...

This paper conceptually explores the impact on the strategic agility of an organization due to it being a part of an inter-connected network of organizations. Organizations need to be strategically agile to respond to the challenges posed by dynamic environments. Existing literature has...

The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. The present study adopts an individual level of analysis and investigates...

The World Wide Web was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners Lee and shortly after that, in 1994, Pizza Hut delivered its first pizza after receiving an online order. Electronic commerce is one of the boons of internet and the one that is speculated to alter how businesses will grow in the competitive...

Product assortment planning is considered as one of the important problems in the retail business. Traditional approaches to product selection in the assortment are largely based on individual product popularity or margins. More recent research works in the literature utilize the cross selling...

Questionnaire surveys of perceptions of institutional environment have been found to be a good diagnostic tool to facilitate self-renewal, leading to effective management of institutions of Higher education. Normally, such tools are developed by interviewing multiple stakeholders (faculty,...

Recent empirical evidence from different markets suggests that the security market line is flatter than posited by CAPM. This flatness implies that a portfolio long in low-beta assets and short in high-beta assets would earn positive returns. Frazzini and Pedersen (2014) conceptualize a BAB...

This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can use to rebalance their curricula?” It uses the theoretical framework...