Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons

Absorptive Capability and Competitive Advantage: Some Insights from Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Every firm learns through firm specific methods. This learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. Therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. This in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. Current literature in strategic managem...

Social Policy in Indian Development

Demographics and recent productivity performance: insights from cross-country comparisons

Over the last few decades, countries have experienced quite different patterns of productivity growth. In this paper, we emphasize the role of country level demographics in explaining these differences. In particular, looking over the period 1960–2002, we show that cross-country data support the notion that, starting in the late 1970s, countries went through a period of technological transition...

Designing Social Interventions to Improve Newcomer Adjustment: Insights from the Indian Sex Worker Community

Nonprofit organizations use social interventions to improve the negative circumstances of marginalized people in subsistence markets. Unfortunately, such intervention efforts are frequently characterized by poor outcomes. Aiming to identify characteristics of effective social interventions, the authors examine the impact of contact intensity and cohort size, in conjunction with external and int...

Inequality and Social Comparisons

I present a model in which people develop certain traits (or skills) and also assign worth to those traits. The worth a person assigns to different traits are the person’s values. These values can be used to evaluate one’s own traits and the traits of others. I show that when people are incentivized to place more value on skills for which they are comparatively advantaged, people with lower opp...