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Management : The Prism and Spectra

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  • Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sonamukhi, Bankura

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Management today, both globally and nationally, challenging, innovative and self critical to redefine the value of time-resource -cost across the blade of grass and spikes of cactus even. The social chemistry of time-cost-resource has gone far beyond economy; it's more cautious and concerned on ecology -social value and stewardship. And, the prism and contemplation here in this book, has unleashed the spectra of ideas and application.
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Management today, both globally and nationally, has
been more challenging, innovative and self critical to
redefine the value of time-resource-cost across the
blade of grass and spikes of cactus even. The social
chemistry of time-cost-resource has gone far beyond
economy; it's more cautious and concerned on ecology-
social value and stewardship. And, the prism of
contemplation, here in this book, has unleashed the
spectra of ideas and application. So, the book has
made an honest attempt to accommodate the plethora
of ideas-innovations, called spectra, through a deeply
delved contemplation, here is called the prism. There is
enough reason to believe that the book will be an
incubator of ideas to drench the beautiful minds of
management scholars and academia to spearhead their
career towards a golden harvest.
MANAGEMENT: THE PRISM AND SPECTRA
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MANAGEMENT:
THE PRISM AND SPECTRA
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A Biswas
Moumita Gupta
G C Mishra
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MANAGEMENT: THE PRISM AND SPECTRA
S K Acharya, A Biswas, Moumita Gupta and G C Mishra
S K Acharya
A Biswas
Moumita Gupta
G C Mishra
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