Entrepreneurship education in India, or for that matter anywhere else, is of recent origin. In fact, few until very recently believed that entrepreneurs could be created through educational endeavours, or that entrepreneurship ...

The process of Rural Development is complex and multidimensional. It requires a multidirectional approach to improve the quality of life of weaker section which encompasses the development of agriculture and allied activities, ...

The paper examines the relationship between traditions and "modern' enterprises on the basis of the empirical data. It argues that traditions should not be understood as a binary opposite of modern enterprises. This issue ...

Industrial location in India is more of a political than economic question. Location policy has often been developed according to the political interests and need of governments. Entrepreneurship development, which is more ...

Entrepreneurship in the farm sector is defined in terms of farmer's ability to take up activities such as mobilising resources, adapting technologies, opening new markets and exploiting opportunities. It is also defined ...

Two distinct academic areas, namely Human Resource Development and Entrepreneurship have been linked using the systems view of organisations (Katz and Kahn, 1966). The Entrepreneurial Orientation construct delineated by ...

Most of the entrepreneurs in rural areas fall within the non-farm sector which has been the largest activity after farm sector. In this sector activities are carried out mostly as a secondary occupation to cultivation, ...

A few decades ago, the region which is now known as Durgapur, was in the lap of forest. There were a number of self-sufficient villages until the middle of 1950s. Geographically the area is located on the bank of river ...

In the current context of a liberalising economy that is attempting to industrialise within the spaces provided by a world capitalist system, exports of manufactured goods is the key to industrial transformation, and ...

Radical upheavals in the former centrally planned economies over the past one decade present major challenges to social scientists and policy makers to formulate a viable strategy for transition to a free market democracy ...