MSMEs are regarded as the sunrise sector of the Indian economy in view of its large potential for growth and likely socio economic impact specifically on employment and income generation. In today’s competitive business environment, global competition forces companies to continuously seek ways of improving their products and services. The pressure on organizations to adapt to new technologies a...

Green SLA (GSLA) is a formal agreement between service providers/vendors and users/customers incorporating all the traditional/basic commitments (Basic SLAs) as well as incorporating Ecological, Economical, and Ethical (3Es) aspects of sustainability. Recently, most of the IT (Information Technology) and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industries are practicing sustainability und...

The competitive dynamic business environment has forced large and small scale firms to reexamine their methods of doing business. For the last decades the large scale industries have implemented lean in order to sustain in a dynamic environment. But the small scale industries have ignored to implement lean due to economic factor. The benefits of lean implementation in large scale sector now rea...

The author introduces the main content of the research on the GIS-based regional agricultural analysis system of competitive industries, including the significance, the main contents and the implementation methods of the research, focusing on the classification of agricultural economic indicators for regional competitive industries, on the realization of regional choice based on GIS, and on the...

This study investigates whether product market competition reduces agency problems between controlling shareholders and minority shareholders in Japan. We study Japan because of its salient weakness in investor protection and the severity of agency conflicts. In a large sample of Japanese firms we find that Japanese firms in more competitive industries pay more dividends than firms in less comp...