The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), formerly Corporate Studies Group, is a seat of higher learning, formed by under the umbrella of the

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, by the Government of India with an aim to assist the government in formulating national level policies. The Institute is located in

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, India and is headed by

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winner, T. N. Chaturvedi.

Profile

The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) was started in the eighties, when the

(ICSSR) revamped the erstwhile ''Corporate Studies Group'' (CSG) by expanding the mandate to make the institute, a nodal agency in matters related to

industrial policy An industrial policy (IP) or industrial strategy of a country is its official strategic effort to encourage the development and growth of all or part of the economy, often focused on all or part of the manufacturing sector. The government takes m ...

development in India. It is a public funded, non profitable organization and acts as an advisory body to ICSSR. The activities of the Institute is broadly classified into various themes.

Facilities

ISID Campus

ISID activities are housed at three main buildings, Academic Block, Office Block and Conference Block, extending to approximately 200,000 sq. ft, sitting on a land with an extent of 1.5 hectares, in the Institutional Area of Vasant Kunj, in New Delhi. The campus is home to: * A library * Faculty rooms * Conference and lecture halls * A guest house * A pantry, dining hall and cafeteria * An auditorium It also holds recreational facilities for the staff and faculty of the institute.

Library

The Library stocks an extensive collection of books, journals and reports in subjects such as

industrial economics In economics, industrial organization is a field that builds on the theory of the firm by examining the structure of (and, therefore, the boundaries between) firms and markets. Industrial organization adds real-world complications to the perfe ...

, foreign investment,

employment Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...

and

labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

media Media may refer to: Communication * Media (communication), tools used to deliver information or data ** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising ** Broadcast media, communications delivered over mass el ...

and

corporate sector In economics, the business sector or corporate sector - sometimes popularly called simply "business" - is "the part of the economy made up by company, companies". It is a subset of the Sovereign state, domestic economy, excluding the economic ac ...

, including publications of

GATT The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its pre ...

WTO The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...

Reserve Bank of India The Reserve Bank of India, chiefly known as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It is responsible for ...

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

UNCTAD The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the ...

, CMIE (EIS), NSSO and CSO. Some other notable collections are: *

Bombay Stock Exchange BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is an Indian stock exchange. It is located on Dalal Street in Mumbai. Established in 1875 by cotton merchant Premchand Roychand, a Jain businessman, it is the oldest stock exchange in ...

Official Directory * Publications of Department of Company Affairs *

Dun & Bradstreet The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is an American company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company offers a wide range of products and services for risk and financia ...

’s Who Owns Whom * Jane's Major Companies of Europe * Handbook of Economics Series (59 volumes—view list) * ''The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'' (8 volumes) * Encyclopaedia of Cities and Towns (27 volumes) * United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations (20 volumes) It also stocks reports, policy statements, committee reports, plan documents, statistical sources, government acts, rules and guidelines and a collection of prospectuses of more than 6,000 companies. ISID Library maintains a digital database of CDs, films and online repository as well. It also subscribes to several journals and magazines. The users of the library have access to

JSTOR JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of j ...

database,

Elsevier Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...

Science Direct ScienceDirect is a website which provides access to a large bibliographic database of scientific and medical publications of the Dutch publisher Elsevier. It hosts over 18 million pieces of content from more than 4,000 academic journals and 30,0 ...

—Economics, Business and Finance,

EconLit EconLit is an academic literature abstracting database service published by the American Economic Association. The service focuses on literature in the field of economics. EconLit covers articles and other materials dating back to 1969. It uses ...

Full Text,

Wiley-Blackwell Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...

Social Science and Humanities, CMIE Prowess, EPWRF On-line Data Series - 13 modules, SANSCO online annual reports and IMF e-library Statistics. It also provides user services such as reference queries, referrals, reprographics and inter-library loan.

Research Reference CD (RRCD)

ISID offers online referencing assistance and in addition to that, has released a reference database on the subject in CD format, under the name, ''ISID Research Reference CD'' which contains index to articles, discussion notes, editorials, Union Budget Speeches, Sections of Economic Survey, key statistics on the Indian economy, Global Development Indicators, reports and website addresses of institutions and scientists.

Projects

ISID has carried out several important projects for the Government of India. * Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization * Regulating FDI in MBRT: Some Key Concerns * Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization * A Multi-dimensional Study of Imperial Order and its Journey towards Neo-liberal Imperialism under Globalisation * ISID-PHFI Collaborative Research in Public Health (2013-2015) * Crony Capitalism and Contemporary India * Survey of Corporate Governance in India * Internationalization Process of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry * Indian Multinationals in Global Economy * Changing Pattern of Corporate Ownership and Implications for Monitoring Company Managements

Publications

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISID also offers full text downloading facility of select research studies on the Internet.

References

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