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India and China have attracted research interest due to their potential to catch up to developed nations. The framework of the National Innovation System (NIS) is a popular theory to explain the role of the state in supporting knowledge creation and learning capacity for the catching-up stage. Various comparative studies on sectoral innovation or geography of innovation in India and China have been conducted, mainly by economists. This chapter tries to bring the non-quantifed factor-constitut...

Introduction: Ambulance-based emergency medical systems (EMS) are expensive and remain rare in low and middle-income countries, where trauma victims are usually transported to hospital by passing vehicles. Recent developments in transportation network technologies could potentially disrupt this status quo by allowing coordinated emergency response from layperson networks. We sought to understand the barriers to bystander assistance for trauma victims in Delhi, India, and implications for a la...

Never quite placated, the ghosts of the Partition have returned to haunt the politics of the Indian republic.

This article examines the functioning of the European Union’s (EU’s) consumer protection law in an incident in which the EU banned Asian shrimps in order to protect its consumers and aims to answer the following questions: 1. Are the EU’s actions in compliance with its own law and the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO)? 2. What is the impact of these actions on international trade and on the EU’s trading partners especially if they are developing countries? The most important conseq...

The Bhopal gas tragedy essentially marked the beginning of mass tort jurisprudence in India. When the US courts dismissed the consolidated lawsuit resulting out of the Bhopal disaster and returned it to India for judicial determination, the Indian legal system was confronted with one of the biggest challenges it had ever faced. The difficulty arising out of the unprecedented extent and intensity of the event was compounded by a lack of prior experience of the Indian legal system in dealing wi...

Supplier selection is the process by which firms identify, evaluate and contract with suppliers. The supplier selection process deploys a tremendous amount of a firm’s operational and financial resources and is considered as an important determinant of the success of its supply chain. In spite of being strategically important to organizations, the decision for supplier selection is often complex and unstructured. Furthermore, it is inherently a multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM) probl...

The globalization that we see today is based on the driving force of serving to self. This article outlines the principles of a new form of globalization, which can be called holistic. Holistic globalization is driven by the service to the whole, which can be briefly described as aiming to achieve optimal integration between the interests of humankind, animals, plants, and Earth—the subjects of the holistic model. The result will be the emergence of holistic organizations and the introduction...

This article discerns the shifts in China's engagement with its Western neighbour, Afghanistan. Beijing's approach has gradually shifted from dis-interest to a careful re-calibration of strategy indicating Afghanistan's growing eminence in its strategic calculus. This transposition – dating back to the 1980's – it is argued has been accentuated as the ‘West’ weans itself away from the Afghan theatre. This article demonstrates that Beijing's chequered history of engagement with Kabul has been ...

A balance sheet would show that more has been lost than retrieved in the Ayodhya judgment. The Supreme Court of India has to be given wide latitude in its effort to address an unwelcome task: to resolve a dispute that has stirred up ancient resentments beyond the powers of a modern republican order to placate.

Human rights and sustainable development arguably share a close relationship. But, the exact nature of this relationship continues to be elusive. Scholars of sustainable development have often pointed out that climate change negotiators rarely bring up sustainable development concerns as core human rights issues. Others point out that it is often difficult to operationalize sustainable development obligations through the language of rights.3 What explains this intuitively close, but practical...

In this paper the relationship of a buyer-supplier is studied so as to determine the potential supplier. Analytical Hierarchy Process technique is used to rank the suppliers. Decision makers at a service firm supplying products and processes to the steel industry worldwide, through an empirical study help identify factors that affect supplier selection procedure. Critical parameters for supplier evaluation and selection are assessed through a structured interview with top management of the se...