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| Title: | Offshore Outsourcing of Information Technology Enabled Supply Chain Functions: A Transaction Cost Analysis | | Authors: | Bouchaib Bahli and Suresh Kumar Goyal | | Publication: | International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management / Inderscience Enterprises Ltd | | Enumeration: | Vol. 1, No. 4 pp. 366 - 381, Year 2005 | | Abstract: | A shortage of domestic skilled information technology professionals and the availability of talent at a fraction of cost in countries like India and China, more and more companies are going global when it comes to outsourcing IT-enabled supply chain activities. Making a decision about whether or not to move these activities offshore is a decision of far-reaching consequences. In this paper, we address this issue from a transaction economic perspective. Transaction costs theory is used as a framework of analysis to examine offshore sourcing decisions. The paper discusses some of the practical and research implications of these results.
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| Title: | A 'Basement' Cinephilia. Indian Diaspora Women Watch Bollywood | | Author: | Nandini Bhattacharya | | Publication: | South Asian Popular Culture / Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group | | Enumeration: | Vol. 2, No. 2,pp. 161 - 183 , October 2004 | | Abstract: | This article results from survey-based research on the actual and situated viewing practices of Indian diaspora women who watch Bollywood. I argue that they thereby construct - and not merely consume - new definitions of national and diasporic identity and motherhood through this mediation. Further, I argue that the personal and communal identities constructed by diaspora female Bollywood-watchers are not merely nostalgic, but a complex amalgam of their responses to the porosity and ambiguity of the medium of Bollywood film.
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| Title: | The Socio-cultural Context of Child Marriage in a Bangladeshi Village
| | Author: | Chowdhury F.D. | | Publication: | International Journal of Social Welfare / Blackwell Publishing | | Enumeration: | vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 244-253/ July 2004 | | Abstract: | This article focuses on the reasons for child marriage in a Bangladeshi village. Although the mean age of marriage for women in Bangladesh is currently 20.2, nearly half of all girls are married before the age of 18. In Bangladesh, female sexuality is controlled through early marriage and the custom of purdah, which limits the social interactions between men and women. The methodology of this research was participant observation, supplemented by questionnaires, discussions, interviews and the construction of case studies. The study was conducted in a village in Bangladesh, and looked at why the rural people of Bangladesh marry off their daughters at an early age, whether they think that they will profit from it, and how. Cost-benefit analysis in exchange theory provides the theoretical framework. This study finds that child marriage occurs as a result of the profit-making motive of the people of Bangladesh, despite the huge costs to the individuals involved, the local community and society as a whole. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
| Title: | "Hinduism" and the History of "Religion": Protestant Presuppositions in the Critique of the Concept of Hinduism
| | Author: | Sweetman W. | | Publication: | Method & Theory in the Study of Religion / Brill Academic Publishers | | Enumeration: | vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 329-353, December 2003 | | Abstract: | The claim that Hinduism is not a religion, or not a single religion, is so often repeated that it might be considered an axiom of research into the religious beliefs and practices of the Hindus, were it not typically ignored immediately after having been stated. The arguments for this claim in the work of several representative scholars are examined in order to show that they depend, implicitly or explicitly, upon a notion of religion which is too much influenced by Christian conceptions of what a religion is, a conception which, if it has not already been discarded by scholars of religion, certainly ought to be. Even where such Christian models are explicitly disavowed, the claim that Hinduism is not a religion can be shown to depend upon a particular religious conception of the nature of the world and our possible knowledge of it, which scholars of religion cannot share. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
| Title: | Terror as a Bargaining Instrument: A Case Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India
| | Authors: | Bloch Franscis and Rao Vijayendra | | Publication: | The American Economic Review / American Economic Association | | Enumeration: | vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 1029-1043/September 2002 | | Abstract: | Some aspects of violent behavior are linked to economic incentives and deserve more attention from economists. In India, for example, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife's family, after the marriage has taken place. Bloch and Rao examine how domestic violence may be used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a spouse's family. The phrase "dowry violence" refers not to the dowry paid at the time of the wedding, but to additional payments demanded by the groom's family after the marriage. The additional dowry is often paid to stop the husband from systematically beating the wife. Bloch and Rao base their case study of three villages in southern India on qualitative and survey data. Based on the ethnographic evidence, they develop a noncooper-ative bargaining and signaling model of dowries and domestic violence. They test the predictions from those models on survey data. They find that women whose families pay smaller dowries suffer increased risk of marital violence. So do women who come from richer families (from whom resources can more easily be extracted). Larger dowries - as well as greater satisfaction with the marriage (in the form of more male children) - reduce the probability of violence. In India marriage is almost never a matter of choice for women, but is driven almost entirely by social norms and parental preferences. Providing opportunities for women outside of marriage and the marriage market would significantly improve their well-being by allowing them to leave an abusive husband, or find a way of "bribing" him to stop the abuse, or present a credible threat, which has the same effect. This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to examine crime and violence in developing countries. Source of Abstract: Provided by Third Party Editors | | Tools: |
| Title: | India: Economy, Politics and Government | | Author: | (n/a) | | Publication: | Business Intelligence Report : India / World of Information | | Enumeration: | vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-62, 2001 | | Abstract: | Even with a parliamentary majority, the ruling right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has had to tread a fine line with its 24 coalition partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), attempting to appease both moderates and religious fundamentalists. BJP leader, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, has promoted a broadly liberal economic agenda while claiming to uphold a commitment to secular and inclusive politics. However, in his attempts to appease hardliners within the Rashtriya Swayamseval Sangh (RSS), the BJP's founding organisation, and Siv Sena, the Hindu fundamentalists within the NDA, he has used political and financial patronage, has increased the power of the increasingly politicised Hindu priestly class and taken an increasingly belligerent line with Pakistan over the Kashmir issue. Like the Congress party which held sway over India through much of its post-independence history, the BJP-led government has also been mired in corruption.
World of Information Business Intelligence Reports allow access to concise, clear coverage of current political and economic developments in over 100 countries. Alongside contributions from journalists and regional experts from around the world, they contain a wide variety of sectoral analysis and background information. Each Report contains an introductory overview commissioned from one of World of Information's network of contributors, an extensive list of key facts and features of the country, including macroeconomic indicators and details regarding national population, labour market and public services. The economy section focuses on monetary, fiscal and trade conditions before analysing sectoral, infrastructure and regulatory developments. Natural resources including agriculture and minerals, industry and service sectors are covered. A five-year table of key indicators invaluable for research into economic trends accompanies the report. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
| Title: | Gandhi, Deep Ecology, Peace Research and Buddhist Economics | | Author: | Thomas Weber | | Publication: | Journal of Peace Research / Sage Publications | | Enumeration: | Volume 36, Number 3,May 1, 1999 | | Abstract: | The central importance of Gandhi to nonviolent activism is widely acknowledged. There are also other significant peace-related bodies of knowledge that have gained such popularity in the West in the relatively recent past that they have changed the directions of thought. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
| Title: | Inservice Training of Primary Teachers Through Interactive Video Technology: An Indian Experience | | Authors: | Maheshwari A.N. and Raina V.K. | | Publication: | International Review of Education / Kluwer Academic Publishers | | Enumeration: | vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 87-101, 1998 | | Abstract: | India has yet to achieve elementary education for all children. Among the centrally sponsored initiatives to improve education are Operation Blackboard, to provide sufficient teachers and buildings, Minimum Levels of Learning, which set achievement targets, and the Special Orientation Programme for Primary School Teachers (SOPT). This article focuses on the last of these and describes the new technology used to train teachers so that the losses in transmission inherent in the cascade model are avoided. Interactive Video Technology involving the Indira Gandhi Open University and the Indian Space Research Organisation was used experimentally in seven-day training courses for primary school teachers in 20 centres in Karnataka State, providing one-way video transmissions and telephone feedback to experts from the centres. The responses from teachers and their trainers indicate considerable potential for the exploitation of new technology where large numbers of teachers require training. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
| Title: | Presidential Address on the annual conference of Itihasa Academy held at Dharwad in June 1996 | | Author: | Dikshit .G.S | | Publication: | Itihasa Darshana / Karnataka Itihasa Academy, Bangalore | | Enumeration: | Vol 12, 1997 | | Abstract: | Inadequacy of water and its distribution has been a great problem every summer; hence it is a must to understand how our ancestors dealt with this problem. A new historical research should begin in this field. Our ancestors maintained the ecological balance, depended on lakes, wells and tanks, which got filled in the rainy season, would water the produce round about these catchments even when there was drought. Tanks took care of the situation in the drought as well as during floods.There are many inscriptions, which speak of not only the construction of tanks and wells by the rulers and others but also of repairing the old ones. The modern trend is to construct at an exorbitant price huge dams across the rivers at the cost of thick forests, houses and the lands of farmers. The historian also gives his suggestions for the present generations to follow the ancient methods of constructing tanks and hand over the management of maintenance to the local governments. Source of Abstract: Written by Kamat Editorial Team | | Tools: |
| Title: | Social Life from the Wood Carvings | | Author: | Jyotsna Kamat | | Publication: | Itihasa Darshana / Karnataka Itihasa Academy, Bangalore | | Enumeration: | Vol 12, 1997 | | Abstract: | The artists of Karnataka carved beautiful pictures of everyday life on the stone, frescoes and on the wood. The paper discusses the work of art on wood as an important source material for historical research .The West Coast of Karnataka is blessed with thick evergreen forests and hence one finds lot of delicately chiseled woodwork in this area. The Gudigars are the artisan class who contributed in enriching this art. There are scenes like women doing their daily chores, birth of a child, bringing up of a child, caressing the baby, the drummer, musicians of different instruments, and various artisans working with their tools. There are many erotic scenes, one can find in the temples of coastal Karnataka, which might bring to shame sculptures of Khajuraho! These carvings which are in a neglected state have to be maintained by polishing and varnishing and should be used as an important source material to study the social history of the area. Source of Abstract: Provided by Author(s) | | Tools: |
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