SSPS -International Journal for Business Management & Research -ISSN: 2350-0956 Vol-I
Article 1Management of Materials across industries in India-An Empirical Study by D.P.Singh- Prof- GNIBM GREATER NOIDA-INDIA
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In the present study attempt has been made to investigate whether management of working capital changes across industries in India. We have taken financials from different companies belonging to
seven Industries such as automobile, cement, steel, IT, telecom, fertilizer and chemicals and petrochemicals. We have taken different measures of working capital components such as return on capital employed (ROCE), working capital turnover ratio (WCTR), current ratio (CR), inventory turnover (ITO), days inventory outstanding (DIO), days payable outstanding (DPO), days sales outstanding (DSO) and cash Conversion cycle (CCC). We have made an attempt to find out whether the above mentioned components of working capital changes across different industries. We have used descriptive analysis to find out the characteristics of various measures of working capital components. Based on descriptive statistics we hypothesized that working capital components vary across different industries. To fulfill our objectives we have taken 63 companies from seven industries chosen randomly. Financials of all companies has been taken from EMIS (Emerging market information services). We have used ANOVA to investigate if working capital management practices vary across industries.
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Section 135, Companies Act 2013- A Game Changer for
Corporate Social Responsibility-Research Article
byChhavi Mathur
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India’s development sector has evolved substantially over the last few decades and is now witnessing unprecedented interest and investments across the value chain. With the passage of the Companies Act, 2013 the mandate for corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been formally introduced to the dashboard of the Boards of Indian companies. One of the most applauded aspects of the new Company Law regime is the mandatory social spending requirement. Faced with innumerable economic and social challenges as our country is, our lawmakers could not have ushered in a more revolutionary change through the new law.
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Retail Industry in India: The Reality Check- Review Article Prof. Deepika Arora
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Retail is an integral part of the market for years. The presence of traditional mom and pop stores tells us about the existence of unorganized sector in India. The emergence of organized sector and its growth since 1980’s is seen now as the Indian retail market is flooded with various industries trying to capture their piece of cake in the market, covering all market segments and simultaneously paving a way for many others to make the today’s world more competitive. Retailers offering multi-brand products sprung up in the 1990s. Various types of shopping Centers started coming up from 1995 onwards. The year 2000 saw the establishment of super markets and hypermarkets. The big international retail industry is waiting for India to open up FDI in the retail sector.
At present Organized retail captures around 6 per cent of the total market, but it seems that by 2015 its share would increase to 25 per cent. Various structural, social, demographic and macroeconomic factors are driving the growth of this industry.
The paper aims at finding out the challenges that are faced by the organized retail and how these challenges change to opportunities when they move from one sector to another. The paper would discuss as to how the organized sector is growing at leaps and bounds and the unorganized sector is lacking behind.
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Review Article 4
CHANGING FACE OF INDIAN RETAIL – Issues and Prospects-
By- Keshav Bhatia-Professor with Bangalore School Of Business, Delhi
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Consumer plays a vital role in today’s market scenario and due to competition every business firm wants to provide the best product service delivery to their consumers and take many convenient modes and channels of delivery into consideration. Retail Management is one out of them through which consumers behavior and response is quick analysed and can handle in a flexible way so, Retail management is a subject that has recently garnered much attention. Changing purchase patters, demographic profiles,easy availability of international brands and the increased purchasing power has led to the growth of the mall and hyper market culture in India. Marketers in this genre believe that companies can create a lot of new demand in the store. Shopper-marketers are attempting to influence brand choices that would enhance sales, as well as lead to the opening of new branches and outlets pan-India. The International trends and buying behavior is being replicated in the Indian scenario. An attempt has been made to see the movement of the Indian consumer from purchasing from a KIRANA (Grocery ) merchant to an outlet located in a swanky mall.
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Research Article-5
Data mining & Knowledge Management through Information Technology-by*Prof. Tanvir Hussein & Salim Hyder Khan
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In recent years, with the advent, introduction and booms of information technology, businesses increasingly develop the capability to accumulate astronomical amounts of data in large databases. The availability of large volume of data, has made possible by new information technology tools, has created opportunities as well as challenges for businesses to leverage the data and gain competitive advantage. The present paper explores the systems and ways of taming the astronomical size data through information technology so as to make this data useful for the organization knowledge.
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Research Paper 6
Effective Talent Management Practices A case study –Research Communication by- Isha Arora
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Talent management (TM) has become an imperative in the face of today’s business challenges. Companies are increasingly realizing that successful TM is the key to high performance. The talent management is one of the primary management tool in 21century human assets management. This paper studied the strategies and practices of talent management and their impact on employee retention and effectiveness in changing work environment. Talent management is simply a process of recruitment of talents, developing the skills of existing workforce, promoting and retaining the employees, attracting highly talented and rated employees from other companies etc. Human resources department of each and every company practices talent management. For the purpose of the study, Data were collected from secondary sources includes journals, books, articles, newspapers, websites etc
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