The evidences of the impact of global warming in the recent years have been significant. Increase in the number of natural disasters like severe drought on one part of the world to devastating flood in the other part of ...
How does one contextualize the question of globalization?Given the present state of the world and the existing deep economic and social crises, it is imperative that an ideological underpinning to every phenomenon is ...
Electricity governance and planning ought to have been two important areas of administration in India right since Independence, but unabated growth in demand, chronic power cuts, nature’s limits and global warming implications ...
Keyoor Purani, Sunil Sahadev; Deepak S. Kumar(Sage Publications, 2014-01)
The impact of globalization on academic research is undeniable. This impact is more pertinent and strongly felt in the academic field of marketing. The pattern of this impact can be easily discerned from the trends in ...
Globalization accentuates the local, as seen in the increasing emphasis on ‘indigenous knowledge’ in the discourse of governments, universities and international organizations.This essay explores the categories of ‘indigenous ...
The processes of globalization have often been described by way of the metaphor of ‘flows’—flows of people, goods, capital or ideas. Since the recent worldwide economic recession the nature, direction and vectors of those ...
Narayanan, K; Santosh K. Sahu(Sage Publications, 2014-07)
In this article, the contributions of energy use to the climate variation debates are explored. Analyses based on secondary data depict that global fossil fuel use has increased and dominated world energy consumption and ...
The word ‘development’ is at the same time both ‘concrete’ as well as ‘contentious’. It is subject to the historic contexts determined by prevailing ideology of the period. The attempt is to focus on the post-World War II ...
Aparna Bhatia; Siya Tuli(Sage Publications, 2014-07)
The present study seeks to access and compare the sustainability reporting practices in two major economies, that is, India and China. Index developed under global reporting initiative (GRI) guidelines is used. Content ...
This article is located at the intersection of two distinct entry points—one, the development of Delhi as a global or world class city and two, the contested social location of meat in the city. Delhi is developing and is ...
The growing importance of environmental concerns and focus on recycling has encouraged our research efforts to
study the bullwhip effect on Closed Loop Supply Chain (CLSC). This article attempts to measure bullwhip effect ...
Strategic trade refers to international trade under market imperfections. The purpose of the article is to comprehend general equilibrium implications of trade liberalization on Indian macroeconomic aspects under alternative ...
Matt Withers, Janaka Biyanwila(Sage Publications, 2014-01)
Although certain strides have been made towards increased female participation in paid work, Sri Lanka’s labour market remains heavily segmented and offers limited sustainable economic opportunity for a majority of women. ...
The article examines the concept of ‘production’ and ‘reproduction’ within the feminist discourse. It aims at examining some of the important issues which have emerged in the debates concerning sexual division of labour ...
Sexegesis: the exegesis of the sex trade, or the lack of it. Logical: reasonable; explainable in terms of lived-in realities and comprehensible to the average human rationality (if there is such a phenomenon).2 Indeterminations: ...
Organizational communication is a multi-disciplinary subject area incorporating business communication, organizational behaviour, psychology, human resource management and much more. If organizational communication strategy ...
The vast expansion of the electronic media—and especially the rapid growth of digital media—in the last decades have brought about vast changes in the ways people interact and the spaces they inhabit. However, this article ...
One of the strategic functions of the Infosys Education & Research Unit is the ‘Industry-Academia partnership program’— Campus Connect (CC), launched in May 2004 to nurture an ecosystem to enhance the right quality and ...
This article has a focus on the semiotic value of contemporary Indian art practice. It takes a fundamental position that in India, the conceptual response to contemporary art (painting and visual art) needs to be understood ...
The early animated image under industrial production was intrinsically antirealist in nature and was informed by the dialectics of class conflict. It was the result of the exploited labouring body working alongside the ...