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Career dynamics in India: a two-wave study of career orientations and employability of graduates
No full textPurpose: the purpose of this paper is to develop and test a career-orientation and employability-focused model in the Indian context in order to understand: factors influencing employability of graduates factors influencing expected salary gain.Design/methodology/approach: the researchers adopted a quantitative method using a two-wave survey with a sample of MBA graduates from two prominent business schools in India. The total sample size for Wave I was 250, while for Wave II it was 161. The model was tested via hierarchical regression with MBA contribution as a moderator.Findings: results indicate the relevance of protean career orientation (PCO) to reaching career outcomes such as employability, with MBA contribution as a moderator.Practical implications: the study provides a new perspective that would enhance graduates’ employability. This makes it relevant for both individuals and higher education institutions as it will help both individuals and higher education institutions to attain competitiveness at the national level.Originality/value: the career theory was extended to the diverse socio-cultural and economic context of India, representing the BRICS economy
Moral hazard and private monitoring.
No full text1This paper incorporates earlier work by Bhaskar [4] and unpublished notes by van Damme. We are grateful to Tilman Börgers, Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray, an anonymous referee, an associate editor, and numerous seminar audiences for useful comments. The first author thanks the CentER for Economic Research (Tilburg) for its hospitality while some of this research was carried out.
Concurrent effect of Alfvén waves and planar magnetic structure on geomagnetic storms
No full textGenerally, interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) triggers intense and strong geomagnetic storms. It has been established that the ICME sheath-moulded planar magnetic structure enhances the amplitude of the storms. Alfvén waves embedded in ICME magnetic clouds or high solar streams including corotating interacting regions (CIRs) in turn extend the recovery phase of the storm. Here, we investigate a geomagnetic storm with a very complex temporal profile with multiple decreasing and recovery phases. We examine the role of planar magnetic structure (PMS) and Alfvén waves in the various phases of the storm. We find that fast decrease and fast recovery phases are evident during transit of PMS regions, whereas a slight decrease or recovery is found during the transit of regions embedded with Alfvénic fluctuations
Bollywood cinema: A critical genealogy
No full text"Bollywood" has finally made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. The 2005 edition defines it as: "a name for the Indian popular film industry, based in Bombay. Origin 1970s. Blend of Bombay and Hollywood." The incorporation of the word in the OED acknowledges the strength of a film industry which, with the coming of sound in 1931, has produced some 9,000 films. (This must not be confused with the output of Indian cinema generally, which would be four times more). What is less evident from the OED definition is the way in which the word has acquired its current meaning and has displaced its earlier descriptors (Bombay Cinema, Indian Popular Cinema, Hindi Cinema), functioning, perhaps even horrifyingly, as an "empty signifier" (Prasad) that may be variously used for a reading of popular Indian cinema. The triumph of the term (over the others) is nothing less than spectacular and indicates, furthermore, the growing global sweep of this cinema not just as cinema qua cinema but as cinema qua social effects and national cultural coding. Although Indian film producers in particular, and pockets of Indian spectators generally, continue to feel uneasy with it (the vernacular press came around to using "Bollywood" only reluctantly), its ascendancy has been such that Bombay Dreams (the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical) and the homegrown Merchants of Bollywood both become signifiers of a cultural logic which transcends cinema and is a global marker of Indian modernity. As the Melbourne (March 2006) closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games showed, Bollywood will be the cultural practice through which Indian national culture will be projected when the games are held in Delhi in 2010. International games (the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and so on) are often expressions of a nation's own emerging modernity. For India that modernity, in the realm of culture, is increasingly being interpellated by Bollywood
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Capitalism vs Socialism Debate
No full textWatch Yaron Brook - Chairman of the Board, Ayn Rand Institute - and Bhaskar Sunkara - Author of “The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality”- debating about the merits and prospects of Capitalism and Socialism.Salem Cente
Moral hazard and private monitoring
No full text1This paper incorporates earlier work by Bhaskar [4] and unpublished notes by van Damme. We are grateful to Tilman Börgers, Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray, an anonymous referee, an associate editor, and numerous seminar audiences for useful comments. The first author thanks the CentER for Economic Research (Tilburg) for its hospitality while some of this research was carried out
Moral hazard and private monitoring
No full text1This paper incorporates earlier work by Bhaskar [4] and unpublished notes by van Damme. We are grateful to Tilman Börgers, Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray, an anonymous referee, an associate editor, and numerous seminar audiences for useful comments. The first author thanks the CentER for Economic Research (Tilburg) for its hospitality while some of this research was carried out
In Defense of Revolutionary Socialism: The Implications of Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto
No full textThis review of Bhaskar Sunkara’s The Socialist Manifesto locates the book within socialist debates about revolutionary praxis and the limits of reform versus revolution. The reviewer argues that the book has been accused, both fairly and unfairly, as “socialism without revolution,” an argument that can only be understood by delving more deeply into the positions advocated by the author. While Sunkara does in fact advance a “revolutionary socialism” in terms of concrete policy proposals, it is fair to ask critical questions about whether or not his limited interrogation of capitalist power is compatible with his self-professed goals
Maya Miriga (Odia, 1984): a mirage called life
No full textReview of a landmark cinematic triumph in Odia Cinema that pioneered its New Wave movement of the 1980s, and propelled a lesser known regional cinema into national and international recognition.Direction: Nirad N. MohapatraCast: Bansidhar Satpathy, Manimala, Binod Mishra, Manaswini Mangaraj, Sampad MahapatraMusic Director: Bhaskar Chandavarka
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