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Kumar, Mukesh and Ram Kumar, Kakani. The Telecommunications Revolution: Mobile Value Added Services in India, Social Science Press, Jan. 2012 [ISBN: 978-8-18-735861-9]

The telecommunications industry continues to grow at a formidable pace, and within it, the mobile value added services (MVAS) industry displays impressive potential for influencing the lives of millions of people.

Driven by technology and innovation, experts believe that the mobile value added services (MVAS) industry has even greater possibilities than electronic commerce (e-Commerce).

The Telecommunications Revolution: Mobile Value Added Services in India studies the MVAS industry in depth. It compares MVAS trends in India with those in other parts of the world like the USA and Europe, Japan, South Korea and China.

This lucidly written book will be of great interest not only to the student of telecommunications and business studies, but also to policy makers, industry professionals and the interested general reader.

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Saha, Biswatosh and Parthasarathi Banerjee and Ram Kumar Kakani. Strategic Thinking: Explorations around Conflict and Cooperation, Sage Publications Pvt., Sept. 2011 [ISBN: 978-8-13-210690-6]

Strategic Thinking is an exploration of the world of strategic action centered on the strategist actor who remains immersed in the multi-faceted conflicts and contests of the pragmatic life of business.

The strategist actor seeks a ‘win’ and searches for power; his strategic action is aimed at securing governance and hence seeks to subvert inter-organizational balance to this end. The authors argue that strategic action is imagined and executed in a ‘milieu’, populated by power holders who provide a countervailing threat to the pursuits of a strategist. This intensely governed strategy ‘milieu’, where relations and transactions between power holders are under the governance of a current set of rules and institutions, is what strategic acts remain deeply interested in as it attempts to establish altered dimensions of governance advantageous to the strategist.

This book explores the various modes through which nodes of power holders are formed or decimated in the organization. It embraces the twin dimensions of strategic motives—deterrence and novel market making—around the theme of governance, without conflating the differences between these differing motives riding on differing dynamics of decreasing and increasing returns.

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Ramachandran, N and Ram Kumar Kakani. Financial Accounting for Management. 3rd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2011 [ISBN: 978-0071333412]

The third edition of Financial Accounting for Management continues to focus on building the concepts in financial accounting from a decision-making perspective.

As in previous editions, it prepares managers ability to understand and evaluate accounting reports with the help of real-world examples and cases.

This book introduces financial statements to the students and takes them through the process of recording and processing accounting transactions.

This new edition's key highlight is the updated status on Indian Accounting Standards as well as it also summarizes the key places of difference between Ind AS and IFRS. 

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