Book Review
Setting reforms on track
THE old institutional approach for economic development was fully developed during the first half of the 20th century especially during the Great Depression of 1930s. But in recent years, it is widely acknowledged that for successful economic policies, t here must be the right institutional and political underpinnings to these policies. This approach represents a change from the earlier thinking that development depends most critically on the availability of natural resources and physical and human capit al.

Company beautiful
THE last two decades have seen organisational sciences come into their own -- as a specific field of study. The emergence and the growth of the corporate organisation in a global society has spotlighted the need for its study within academe. The birth an d the growth of the organisational sciences is an unique inclusion within the academia for researchers and scholars. Over the last few decades organisational studies have made significant inroads towards this end. But it has not stopped there. This in tu rn has led to the emergence of a niche area for study within the ambit of organisation sciences -- aesthetics. And, this has become a rapidly expanding area in the field of organisational sciences.

Human side of business
THE management of human resources in corporate organisations is probably the trickiest and most difficult among all management functions. If Infosys is today an international success story, it is as much a tribute to the man-management skills of Narayana murthy and his colleagues as the company's technical expertise in software. Thus, when an organisation's physical and human resources fire smoothly on all cylinders, the result, as Vipen Kapur points out, is that one plus one is not just three or four, b ut eleven.

Intellectual Property Rights
THE successful conclusion of the controversial negotiations on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) during the Uruguay Round in 1994 was a major landmark in international economic relations. This volume provides a thorough and se cure foundation on which international trade lawyers and business persons can build a global intellectual property regime that is both productive and fair. It demonstrates that TRIPS essentially balances, albeit delicately, the legitimate interests of th e intellectual property owners with those of third parties, including the users.

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