India is still perceived by some as a developing country that has yet to create world-class products of its own. However, this book shows that in recent years India has emerged as a lead market for frugality-driven innovations that are affordable, robust and successful even outside its geographic boundaries. Many global companies have recognized these changes and are ramping up their local R&D capabilities. At the same time, several Indian firms are venturing out to international shores and gaining access to new markets. Using a top-down approach, the book takes a closer look at systems of...
India is still perceived by some as a developing country that has yet to create world-class products of its own. However, this book shows that in r...
This book examines the effect of deregulation in the Indian banking sector during the post-reforms years, particularly on cost efficiency and total factor productivity. It's findings offer useful policy directions and suggestions to other developing economies.
This book examines the effect of deregulation in the Indian banking sector during the post-reforms years, particularly on cost efficiency and total fa...
Business ethics is understood in a comprehensive and differentiated sense, as in recent years it has evolved under the influence of globalization. The present book examines inclusive growth, which includes more than just poverty alleviation and seeks to address the problem of equity through the enhancement of opportunities for all parties. This conforms to the fundamental task of business ethics, which is to enhance the ethical quality of decision-making and actions taken at all levels of business, i.e., at the personal (micro-), organizational (meso-), and systemic (macro-) levels and thus...
Business ethics is understood in a comprehensive and differentiated sense, as in recent years it has evolved under the influence of globalization. The...
In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transition from simply maximising shareholder wealth to optimising stakeholder welfare is being echoed in various quarters. This book makes a distinct contribution by looking at Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from a values-based perspective with a focus on providinga balance between corporate success and social well-being. The book emphasizes that corporations need to redefine their purposes to co-create long-term, sustainable and win win...
In the light of multiple corporate debacles, financial crises and environmental disasters across the globe, the need for corporate goals to transit...
This commemorative work in honour of Professor Biswajit Chatterjee-an acclaimed economist, learned scholar and researcher-focuses on contemporary issues in international trade, development economics, and macroeconomics and finance.
This commemorative work in honour of Professor Biswajit Chatterjee-an acclaimed economist, learned scholar and researcher-focuses on contemporary issu...
The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the government of India and the governments of several other developing countries. Marketing reforms, it is claimed, can be a crucial answer to solving the problem of rural poverty in agrarian economies where large sections of the populace are engaged in low paying agricultural work. On a wider front, these reforms could help in providing growth impetus to an economy and even the global economy at large. Yet, the subject of liberalizing agricultural markets is also part of a broad and perhaps a...
The proposed book provides an assessment of an important yet controversial policy initiated by the government of India and the governments of sever...
The Indian conglomerate Tata Group and the American healthcare giant GE Healthcare have also developed affordable products targeted at the lowest-income segments in India.
The Indian conglomerate Tata Group and the American healthcare giant GE Healthcare have also developed affordable products targeted at the lowest-inco...
The purpose of this edited collection is to analyse the cultural aspects of Indian organizations. As the world's largest and most diverse democracy, Indian society can be best described as an amalgam of multiple cultures, value systems, socio-political and institutional orientations. This book offers a theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of these aspects in Indian organizations.
The World Bank predicts that in the near future India will become the world's second largest economy. The recent high growth rates reported by businesses in the...
The purpose of this edited collection is to analyse the cultural aspects of Indian organizations. As the world's largest and most diverse democracy...
This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multifaceted nature of sustainability as a concept.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of sustainability and management in India and through its insightful essays highlights the complex and multi...
