https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5637 2026-04-26T05:04:47Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5645 Title: Assessment of Urbanization in Census-units through : Construction of a Generalized Urbanization Index: A Study for Economically Backward Regions of West Bengal during 1991 to 2011 Authors: Mookherjee, Subikash; Pattanayaek, Sanjoy Kumar; Mondal, Debasish Abstract: The Census Authority of India usually provides data regarding the nature of a few urbane characteristics for all the village units and thereby classifies a place as Census Town, which is considered as the lowest unit of urbanization. From the perspective of urbanization, regions of any state, consisting of blocks can be classified as economically advanced or economically backward on the basis of existence of Census Towns in it as urban places are likely to bring more prosperity in terms of standard of living. However, proper assessment of urbanization in a single measurement scale, of all village units of a particular block is not done so far. An attempt in that direction is made in this article through construction of a Generalized Urbanization Index (GUI) for all the village units of some blocks, selected through systematic-stratified sampling, from three major districts of Paschim Medinipur, Bankura and Purulia, which are known as ‘so called’ backward regions. The proposed GUI for a census-unit is constructed with two components - the town criteria index and the amenities index and the relative weights of both the component-indices and the underlying dimension indices are determined through the application of Iterative Average Correlation Method indicating some movement towards actuality in comparison to prevailing two other methods of weight determination - the Equal Weights Principle and the Principal Component Analysis. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5644 Title: Empowering Women through Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation Authors: Chatterjee, Sibaram Abstract: The empowerment of women is a very important element of sustainable economic growth in any nation. A woman is said to be empowered, if her access to the different constituents of development, viz., health, education, earnings, opportunities, rights, freedom, social recognition, political participation and ability to protest are improved. Women’s participation in entrepreneurial activities may play powerful role in their empowerment. Increase in women’s income level through participation in entrepreneurial activities may leads to better economic security and they get a space in their household decision making process and thus in the society. The present study thus makes an attempt to find out the interrelation between women’s entrepreneurship development and their empowerment with reference to two districts of West Bengal. The study hypothesizes that entrepreneurship enables women empowerment. For the construction of women empowerment indices fuzzy set theory has been used. The study observes that self entrepreneurship has positive and significant effect on women’s mobility, economic security, participation in household decisions, contribution in household expenses, ability to protest and thus in overall women empowerment, but it has not that kind of effect on women’s relative freedom and political and legal awareness. The study concludes that entrepreneurship induces financial aspect of empowerment whereas the social aspect of empowerment is still in dark irrespective of an effect of self entrepreneurship. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5643 Title: A Study on Influence of Geographical Difference on : Grocery Purchase Behaviour Authors: Datta, Mahua; Datta, Debraj Abstract: India today is witnessing a plethora of activities in Retail. But the major concern for them is the diversity in the Indian consumer behaviour. A good number of studies on consumer choice of retail formats have been devoted to the consumer demographics. Studies have shown that certain demographic groups are associated with certain store formats and the store attributes like price competitiveness, product selection, and atmosphere are drivers of format choice. This paper focused on analysing the grocery purchase behaviour in order to find out the factors influencing the purchase of grocery and the extent of heterogeneity in the consumer perception towards these factors in rural, semi urban and urban market. The study was done at two levels in three catchment areas and the data were analysed by Factor Analysis and ANOVA which revealed Retail Purchase Factors (RPFs) that could influence grocery purchase behaviour 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/5642 Title: Dynamics of Learning Organization on Building Employees Capabilities and Enhancing Performance Authors: Patro, Chandra Sekhar Abstract: The primary basis of sustainable competitiveness for an organization is its ability to continuously innovate, generate, diffuse and integrate new knowledge, to transform into a learning organization. Rapid growth in information technology, intense competition, economic uncertainty and changing consumer trends have brought about for contemporary business world where the major source of competitiveness lies in a company’s ability to transform into a learning organization. The employees of an organization need to be open to innovation and learning, to increase service quality, and also bring the implication of being a learning organization to forefront. The present study focuses on measuring the impact of learning organization in building employees’ leadership capabilities and enhancing performance. The results reveal that the factors dialogue & inquiry, collaboration, empowerment, system connection, and strategic leadership have a significant impact on building employees’ leadership capabilities. Further, it also enhances employees’ performance. The study helps the employees’ to enhance their leadership skills in guiding and inspiring their team towards achieving determined outcomes 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z