The Babu and the Boxwallah: Managerial incentives and government intervention in a developing economy

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-80

  Basu, Kaushik ^a   Ghosh, Arghya ^b   Ray, Tridip ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION; INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY; MANAGEMENT STRATEGY; STATE-BUSINESS RELATIONS;

EID: 0031431057     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9361.00006     Document Type: Article

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