ARTICLE ALERT

01

Food processing sector: opportunity by the ladlefuls / G. Chandrashekhar [The Hindu Business Line, 6 April 2007]
Keywords: Food processing sector in India, trends, opportunities, laws

02

Reforming governance and regulation of urban cooperative banks in India / Mukul G. Asher [Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance; Volume: 15   Issue: 1; 2007]
Keywords: Banking in India, Urban cooperative banks in India, Governance

03

Is east and south-east Asia including India an optimum currency Area? / R Kannan, Atri Mukherjee [Economic and Political Weekly, 17 March 2007]
Keywords: Money, Common currency, Optimum currency area in East and South-east Asia, International experience with monetary union, Monetary integration in Africa, Arab Region, East Caribbean, Proposed Asian currency unit, Prospects of Asian common currency area, Implications for India

04

Staying power / C J Prince [Institutional Investor, January 2007]
Keywords: Top CEOs of America, Best CEOs of America

CORPORATE PROFILES

05

 Bombay dreamhouse / Sangita Shah with Anurag Prasad and Ranjana Kaushal [Outlook Business, 5 March 2007]
Keywords: Corporate profile, TATA, Steel industry, TCS, Top IT companies in the world, Acquisitions, Revenues, Future plans, Business strategy

06

From wheels to wings / Prashant Mahesh [Outlook Business, 5 April 2007]
Keywords: Mahindra and Mahindra, Corporate profile, Acquisitions, Revenues, Future plans, Business strategy

07

Sources of economic growth and acceleration in Gujarat / Ravindra H Dholakia [Economic and Political Weekly, 3 March 2007]
Keywords: Economic growth in Gujarat, Growth potential in Gujarat, Sectoral trends and growth, Estimates of factor growth, 

08

The Kothari Commission and financing of education / Jandhyala B G Tilak [Economic and Political Weekly, 10 March 2007]
Keywords: Fund allocation to education, Scholarship, Higher education and research, Role of the States, Fees and cost recovery, Other norms and recommendations

09

A looming economic threat; China and India are producing more holders of advanced degrees, a new study says, and that's the real challenge to American competitiveness / Pete Engardio [Business Week Online, March 19, 2007]
Keywords: Higher education in India and China, US falling behind

10

Internationalization of SMEs in India: fostering entrepreneurship by leveraging information technology / Patricia R. Todd, Rajshekhar (Raj) G. Javalgi [International Journal of Emerging Markets; Volume: 2   Issue: 2; 2007]
Keywords: Entrepreneurs, India, Information operations, International trade, Small to medium-sized enterprises

11

Can Asia avert a globalization crisis? / by Valérie Engammare and Jean-Pierre Lehmann [Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2007]
Keywords: Globalization, Asia, Globalisation crisis

12

More confident less careful: why office romances are hard to manage [Knowledge@Wharton, 21 March 2007]
Keywords: Human resources, Offices romances, Impact on other employees, No official policy, Managing as best as you can.

HUMAN RESOURCES

13

Maximizing your return on people / by Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer
Keywords: Human resource management, Measuring management, Human capital drivers, Investments in human capital

14

The impact of emerging technologies on business, industry, commerce and humanity during the 21st century / Nick Forster [Vision, Oct-Dec 2006, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon]
Keywords: Emerging technologies, Cyberspace, Computing power

15

Urban infrastructure financing and delivery in China / Darshini Mahadevia [Economic and Political Weekly, 17 March 2007]
Keywords: Urban infrastructure financing - China, Fiscal decentralization

16

Barriers to innovation: the right attitude and metrics / Strategic Direction; Volume 23;Issue 4; 2007
Keywords: Innovation, Barriers

17

China’s new mantra: innovate not imitate / By Jonathan Bell [Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2007]
Keywords: Innovation in China, Innovations, R&D, Innovative companies, Chinese policy

18

The world's top innovators / Soumitra Dutta, INSEAD & Simon Caulkin [Indian Management, March 2007]
Keywords: Innovation, Top Innovators, Innovation index

19

Growing labour force and role of entrepreneurship in enhancing employment opportunities in rural India / S R Subbha Rao [BVIMR Management Edge, Vol. 3, No.2, January-June 2007]
Keywords: Growing Labour force, Entrepreneurship, Employment in rural India

20

The four challenges of leadership / S Ramnarayan [Indian Management, March 2007]
Keywords: Leadership, Challenges of Leadership

21

The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas? / by Stephen A. Miles and Michael D. Watkins [Harvard Business Review, April 2007]
Keywords: Leadership, Complementary leadership, The Promise of Complementary Leadership, Mapping Team Complementarity, The Perils of Complementary Leadership, The Four Pillars of Effective Complementarity, The Challenges of Succession, Ensuring a Smooth Transition

22

Managing differences: the central challenge of global strategy / Pankaj Ghemawat [Harvard Business Review, April 2007]
Keywords: Leadership, Business strategy, 

23

Leader relations model: an alternative approach to the traditional process of leadership / Jose Mathews [Vision, Oct-Dec 2006, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon]
Keywords: Leadership processes, Structural leadership, Relational process, Leader relational model, Sub-relational modes

24

Realizing what you’re made of / by Glenn E. Mangurian
Keywords: Leadership, Traumatic life, Emergence from adversity, Re-creating your identity

25

The future of leadership: where do we go from here? / André Martin [Industrial and Commercial Training; Volume 39;Issue 1; 2007]
Keywords: Leadership, Future of leadership

26

An analysis of the dynamics of information risk in supply chains of select SME clusters / Mohd Nishant Faisal, D K Banwet and Ravi Shankar [Vision, Oct-Dec 2006, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon]
Keywords: Supply chain, Information risks, ISM, SMEs clusters

27

Discrepancies and validation of Indian manufacturing data / Jatinder S Bedi, Purnendu K Banerjee [Economic and Political Weekly, 10 March 2007]
Keywords: Manufacturing industry data - India, Revision of estimates

MINING INDUSTRY

28

Mining: sector focus [Indian Infrastructure, March 2007]
Keywords: Mining, Overview, Policy update, Key players, Mining technology, Production of selected minerals, GSI performance

PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

29

Developing story: global publishing houses see new potential in Indian media [Knowledge@Wharton, 23 March 2007]
Keywords: Publishing industry, Media business, India, Globalisation, Magazine industry, Newspaper industry, Global investors in publishing industry.

30

When local risks become global risks and how we can minimize them [Knowledge@Wharton, 21 March 2007]
Keywords: Global risks, Risk management, Law and public policy

31

India must breed more policy wonks / by Mukul G. Asher [Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2007]
Keywords: Public policy, India, Governance

QUALITY MANAGEMENT

32

Six sigma in service organisations: Benefits, challenges and difficulties, common myths, empirical observations and success factors / Jiju Antony, Frenie Jiju Antony, Maneesh Kumar, Byung Rae Cho [International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management; Volume 24;Issue 3; 2007]
Keywords: Total quality management, TQM, Six Sigma

33

The current state of six sigma application in services / Ayon Chakrabarty, Kay Chuan Tan [Managing Service Quality; Volume 17;Issue 2; 2007]
Keywords: Total quality management, TQM, Six Sigma, Services

34

A meta-analysis of quality measures in manufacturing system / Thawatchai Jitpaiboon, S. Subba Rao [International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management; Volume 24;Issue 1; 2007]
Keywords: Quality measurement, Manufacturing systems

35

Strategically focused training in Six Sigma way: a case study / Ashish Pandey [Journal of European Industrial Training; Volume: 31   Issue: 2; 2007]
Keywords: Training, Six sigma, Case study

36

Real estate industry: changing scenario / D L Desai [Indian Construction, Vol. 40 No. 3, March 2007]
Keywords: Real estate industry, Joint ventures, Taxation, Growth, Real estate companies - quarterly results, Realty stocks

RETAILING

37

A study on trends in retailing industry in India: a case study on shopping malls / S L Gupta [BVIMR Management Edge, Vol. 3, No.2, January-June 2007]
Keywords: Retailing industry in India, Shopping malls, Trends in retailing

38

The outlook for food retailing in India: emerging retail structure and supply chain issues / Amit Mittal, Rishi Chaudhary [BVIMR Management Edge, Vol. 3, No.2, January-June 2007]
Keywords: Retailing in India, Logistics, Supply chain issue

39

Long-distance wireless networking for site – office data communications  / Ioannis K. Brilakis [Journal of IT in Construction; Volume 12, 2007 P 151- 164]
Keywords: Information Technology, Local Area Networks , Data Communication , Network Design , Data Collection , Remote Sensing, Telecom

40

Searching for universal access: the public interest, the FCC and the regulation of international telecommunications / Jill Hills
Keywords: International trade, Telecommunications, United States of America

41

Telecom musings: public service issues in India / Pradip Thomas [info; Volume: 9   Issue: 2/3; 2007]
Keywords: Telecommunications, Public service in India

42

Clothing's big bang: the impact of the end of the ATC on developing country clothing suppliers / Louise Curran [Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management; Volume: 11   Issue: 1; 2007]
Keywords: European legislation, European Union, Garment industry, International trade, Textiles, Trade barriers, United States of America

43

Tourism and the general agreement on trade in services: Sustainability and other developmental concerns / Babu P. George, Tony L. Henthorne [International Journal of Social Economics; Volume 34;Issue 3; 2007]
Keywords: International trade, Trade in services, Tourism, Sustainable development, GATT in services

44

Regional trade openness index and income disparity: a new methodology and the Indian experiment / Sugata Marjit, Saibal Kar, Dibyendu S Maiti [Economic and Political Weekly, 3 March 2007]
Keywords: Regional trade, Indian States, Export import share, Relationship between openness and inter-regional income disparity

45

Now or never for an Asian FTA / by C. Fred Bergsten [Far Eastern Economic Review, March 2007]
Keywords: Free trade area, FTA, Asian FTA, International trade, Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), APEC countries