Bihar is a predominantly agricultural state in the heartland of fertile Gangetic plains. Despite having a rich endowment of river basins, the state lagged in capturing the fruits of the green revolution due to the lack of proper water management and irrigation infrastructure. This is exacerbated...

The global spread of intensive agricultural programs during the decade of 1960s brought food security, poverty reduction, and fiscal prosperity to an extent but also caused regional disparities and environmental degradation. As far as environmental degradation is concerned, it is a phenomenon...

The economic value added (EVA), orginally developed by Stern Stewart & Company, is a relatively new financial tool that is being adopted successfully by many firms. However, evidence of EVA as a predictor of shareholders’ wealth is mixed. This paper empirically verifies the effect of...

The economic value added (EVA), originally developed by Stern Stewart & Company, is a relatively new financial tool that is being adopted successfully by many firms. However, evidence of EVA as a predictor of shareholders’ wealth is mixed. This paper empirically verifies the effect of...

Measuring and managing the performance of a business is one of the main requirements of the management of any organization. This book introduces new contexts and themes of application and presents emerging research areas related to business performance measurement and management. It draws...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify the measurement scale of shopping values in the Malaysian context. Both hedonic as well as utilitarian shopping value measurement scales were tested for their reliability and validity. Further, a series of hypotheses was developed to test the...

This paper studies the efficiency trend in the Indian Small-Scale Industry for the period spanning 1973-74 to 1994-95, using alternative techniques of deterministic frontier production function. In spite of an impressive output growth over the period of study as revealed by published data, this...