Technological developments in developing countries are governed by the nature of socio-economic structure of the countries concerned, and depend on factors like technological absorption capacities, administrative and management efficiencies, prevailing technological base, available R&D...

The evolution of the settlement pattern of any area is governed by a number of forces which vary from one region to another and hence, we get varying patterns in the spatial distribution of settlements. The conventional visual judgment of the settlement pattern as sparse, dispersed, agglomerated...

Various studies concerning urbanized regions show a general relation among different socio-economic and demographic variables. This study, worked out in the mirror of the distance framework, has the principal object to find out the relation between economic variables (work participation in...

Technology import raises industrial competitiveness through increased productivity and efficiency of the concerned units. Thus, it is necessary for developing countries to have liberal regimes in favor of technology import. Increases in productivity and efficiency lead to competitiveness....

A drug approved today is the result of an idea generated 10-15 years back, which has now succeeded. It takes several years and huge resources to gain approval from the regulatory agencies, and bring a new medicine to the marketplace for the patients, by pharmaceutical companies engaged in new...

Exporting has evolved to be one of the fastest growing economic activities in recent times. Increased interest in exporting can be attributed to changing economic conditions across the world viz. growing liberalization, integration and global competition, etc. However, in this highly competitive...

In retail industry furniture and furnishing category has become more competitive. There are many players entering into organized format of retail in this category. Therefore, it becomes important for retailers to differentiate themselves from each other. As the products are similar, one of the...

In spite of having very good growth potential, retail in India is passing through turbulent times and therefore, differentiation becomes very essential. There are various players in apparel segment in terms of lifestyle format. These apparel players deliver almost the same thing as their...

Organizations these days are turning to develop systems which lead to high performance amongst employees. Researchers are taking keen interest in this area to find out factors of HR systems that motivates employees to perform well or high. This study attempts to find out factors that generates...

Differentiation of one's offering in this competitive market becomes crucial. Furniture products till now were usually customized by Indian customers. Now, these products are also sold in organized market. National and international players have entered the market with their brands in this...