Microfinance, in simple terms, can be defined as financial services for the poor. Currently, the policy-makers all over the globe are increasing their emphasis on microfinance. At this point of time, considering the energy ...
Financial sector has witnessed transformation with the adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in providing financial services that ensured financial services to distant customers and reduced cost of ...
Increasing Indian population, migration from neighbouring countries as well as numerous variants of identity cards like ration card, voter ID card forced Government of India to form ‘Unique Identification Authority of India ...
Ecotourism is a type of sustainable tourism that aims at conservation of the environment through development of the indigenous communities. Development of the communities not only refers to economic development, but also ...
In this note we provide an economist’s perspective on self-sabotage in contests. When such self-sabotage is engineered at
the behest of a third party for financial gains from betting markets, we see the twin problems of ...
Sofia Amaral; Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay(Sage Publications, 2015-07)
We analyze the relationship between a ‘weak judiciary’, as measured by the percentage of pending trials, and the propensity to engage in criminal activities. Using state-level panel data for India from 1995 to 2007, we ...
To alleviate poverty and unemployment in villages and to include rural India under a structured financial system, the government, through institutions like National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, has been ...
Given the severity of natural resources’ degradation and the imminent threat to ecological security, various alternatives have been explored for the sustainable management of these resources. One such alternative includes ...
Repayment schedules characterizing a typical micro loan are rigid and offer little to no flexibility in terms of rescheduling repayments when faced with emerging contingencies. Such rigid structures affect the economic as ...
Economy is a popular subject of conversation. In a typical conversation like that, the greater scope of the discipline of economics is often reduced to public policy and macroeconomics domain of this subject. This may give ...
Is there a distinct management style as ‘Indian way of management’ in practice as there is Western style of management developed during the industrialization age and Japanese style of management, which received global ...
This article traces the evolutionary journey of the idea of Indian management 1960 onwards. It identifies four phases of development of Indian management ideas in terms of adopting a scientific approach (1960–1980), ...
Crises are common in the modern world and the value system of leaders plays a crucial role in effectively managing the crises. The role of self-managing leadership in crisis management is explored in this article. An ...
Mariam Ciby; Raya, R. P(Sage Publications, 2015-01)
Over the past 25 years, academic researchers across the globe have extensively studied the concept, definition and the prevalence of workplace bullying. Even though researchers around the globe explain bullying with multiple ...
Given the current trend, the world population is projected to rise to 9.5 billion in 2047.
India will take the top spot with a staggering population of close to 1.6 billion to leave behind the current world leader in ...
India is contributing immensely to the global business environment. We are well aware of the advantages India has. Its demographic advantage, high-cost competitiveness and domestic consumption-led economy are some of the ...
This study attempts to examine the impact of prior and current firm performance on board composition as it is the least explored issue in the corporate governance area. For this purpose, our analysis covers a large sample ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), as a field of study, began to garner serious scholarly attention since the 1970s. There are broadly two schools of thoughts relating to the efficacy of CSR. The first one, asserted ...
Over the years, marketing has increasingly been viewed as a major cause for many social and environmental problems. The role of marketing has been widely perceived
to be prospering at the expense of society. Marketing ...