This Book Beautifully Portrays The State Of Affairs With Regard To Enterpreneurship Development In Hosiery Industry Of Ludhiana And Tirupur. The Book Highlights Various Hosiery Clusters In India And Their Performance And Value Realisation From Domestic And Export Sales. The Infrastructural Set Up With Regard To Promotion Of Entrepreneurship In Hosiery Industry Has Also Been Systematically Putforth For The Benefit Of Hosiery Entrepreneurs. The Study Conducted With The Help Of Random Purposive Samples Of 30 Each From Ludhiana And Tirupur Has Been Compilied In Nine Chapters Viz. Introduction, Methodology, Pursuit For Excellence + In Hosiery Industry, Profile Of Entrepreneurs, Profile Of Enterprise And Practices Of Management, Perceptions And Motivational Factors, Entrepreneurial Techniques Used, Strategic Management, Summary And Recommendations. The Data Has Been Presented In Tables And Analysed Using Simple Statistical Techniques. On The Basis Of The Analysis, Suggestions Have Been Given Towards The End For Improving Entrepreneurial Performance In The Hosiery Industries. The Book Would Be Of Immense Benefit To The Entrepreneurs, Both Existing And Potential, For Improving Performance Of Hosiery Industry In India.

Studies on growth and development of SSI's have always occupied a very prominent position in scientific research. During recent times scientists have been interested in understanding how the growth and development of SSI's are governed by the entrepreneurship of the people. The study investigates various aspects of entrepreneurs. It explores the effects of socio-psychological background of the entrepreneur on the success and failure of the enterprise. the author also highlights the motivational factors that induce the entrepreneur to the field. The book also draws the personal characteristics of a successful Kerala entrepreneur. The findings will prove an essential reading to those who are engaged in training the entrepreneurs. It would be most useful for academicians, planners, bureaucrats, politicians and the various persons concerned in the development of SSI's and entrepreneurship. It is our hope that the book will provide a fresh stimulus for the researchers and scholars alike.

Employment of the employable manpower,an unavoidable gole of development policy,is best attained by a positive employment policy which involves matching of demographic trends and skill evolution with industrial and technological growth.The present work examines the changing role of self-employment in the national employment markets,dierctly wlth the help of statistics generated by National Sample Survey Organisation and Decennial Census of Degree Holders and Technical Personnel ,and indirectly from National Accounts Statistics.The book also focuses on direct component of employment policy, It lays bare the theoretical limits and empirical reality of self-emplyment opportunites generated by special self-employment programmes.

Contributed articles presented earlier at a seminar.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life--social, cultural and economic--and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.