Internationally fragmented nature of production has led to the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs). This has opened up the opportunities for emerging market economies like India to increase their presence in international trade in spite of not having any intrinsic comparative advantage because with GVCs, countries just have to focus on specializing in specific production stages and not on producing an entire product. This article presents a brief review of the studies that used the country-level data derived from international input-output tables to investigate the determinants of GVC participation. The paper discusses several policy, non-policy and institutional factors along with certain firm related factors which are highlighted in GVC literature as key drivers of countries’ GVC engagement. It was found that impact of different factors on the degree and level of GVC participation differ significantly by region, country, sector, time, and the modes of integration (forward or backward).

The concept of entrepreneurship covers many types of organizational and individual activities but it takes its most obvious form in the decision by an entrepreneur to start a new business. In recent years, researchers from different perspectives have focused more attention on the entrepreneurial activity involved in starting one’s own business. Environmental business management research has not yet concentrated on start-ups, although this early stage of a business enterprise’s life might be a sensible starting point for environmental management. (Schick, Marxen, & Freedmann, 2002) This paper is a report of an empirical study into start-up processes, designed to determine whether there are opportunities for executing more sustainable business practices from the commencement of new business ventures. This research try to conceptualize the phenomenon sustainable start-ups, drivers of entrepreneurial intention in sustainable start-ups, sustainable practices adopted by nascent entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Start-up; Start-up proc ess; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Sustainability; Sustainable business practices; Green start-ups

Even though considerable progress has been made to facilitate girls’ education, the overall structure still remains unfavorable to them. The present study tries to analyze and interpret the impact of socio-economic factors on girls’ education in Karnataka. The study adopted descriptive method to explain the importance, need, advantage of girls’ education and barriers in girls’ education and policy initiatives. The study also adopted survey method to understand the mindset of people about girls’ education and problems at ground level to promote girls education. An analysis made on growth of enrollment, drop out, teacher-pupil ratio, infrastructure facilities and retention rate related to girls’ education. There is significant association between mindset of people and preference for girls’ education. The study also used multiple regression models to measure the impacts of the socio economic indicators on girls schooling. The analysis further revealed that the preference for boys over girls also a major phenomenon in rural area which negatively impact on educating the girls child. The study concludes with the suggestion to remove the barriers of educating girl child.

The Non-performing assets in banking industry are alarmingly increasing which is causing damage to the leverage of savings-credit chain. It is also causing high losses to the banks and performance of the banks is declining. The objective of this study is to analyze the trends and pattern of NPAs in Indian banks and also to measure the impact of NPAs on the performance of Indian banks. For this the study has considered few variables like Gross NPA , Net NPA, of Public , private and foreign sector banks to find out NPA trends in Indian banks using one-way ANOVA test, Post-hoc Duncan test and Exponential growth model and ROA, ROE, and ROI to make a comparative analysis between Public, private and foreign sector banks over the presence of NPA.