This paper has attempted to analyse the effects of deregulation policy, introduced in India during the mid 1980s, on technology acquisition and competitiveness in the Indian automobile industry during the 1980s. Following evolutionary theoretical framework, the paper argues that asymmetry among...

We examine the importance of a firm’s R and D activity, technology import and intra-sectoral R and D spillovers on the decision to export and export intensity using firm level panel data for the Indian automobile sector from 2000-2014. R and D and technology import activities are found to be...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of the growth of firms in the Indian automobile industry during the period 1980-81 to 1995-96. It re-examines certain issues that have already been extensively studied in the literature, such as the relationship between growth, size,...

This paper attempts to construct a picture of socioeconomic context of vulnerability by focusing on indicators that measure both the state of development of the region as well as its capacity to progress further. The first aspect is reflected through agricultural and industrial development,...

This paper analyses the behaviour of Indian Automobile firms operating under regulated and liberal economic policy regimes. Results from the step-wise discriminant analysis presented in this paper reveal that the conduct and performance of firms in this sector differ significantly between the...

This paper attempts to examine the role of technological efforts and firm size in determining the export behaviour of firms belonging to the basic chemical industry in India. The basic chemical industry is an important industry that provides intermediate chemicals to firms operating in diverse...

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...

Indian OFDI has increased and diversified substantially in the last 10 years. This paper uses quantile difference-in-difference measure to estimate home country effects of the OFDI decision of Indian corporate on their firm level characteristics reflected in various financial/non-financial...