Review of Professional Management- A Journal of New Delhi Institute of Management

Faisal Ahmed ¹, Anju Kohli ¹, Prabhat Pankaj ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Economics, University College of Social Sciences, MLSU, Udaipur, IN
2 IILM, Greater Noida, IN

Abstract

India and the GCC states have long shared cordial relations both in the economic as well as political front. The paper estimates India's export potential to 83 trading partners of India (spread across 10 Regional Trading Agreements). The first part of the paper discusses the origin and geo-economic strength of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and its relation with India. GCC comprises of six states including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The second part of the paper presents the gravity model predictors and makes a literature review of the usage of this model. The augmented form of this model as used in this study along with the findings of this paper as per the model estimates have been presented in the third part of this paper. The focus of the analysis is on ascertaining India's export potential to the GCC states.

Keywords

GCC, Gravity Model, India's Export Potential.

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Faisal Ahmed ¹, Shahzia Khan ²

Affiliations
1 International Business, New Delhi Institute of Management, 60 & 61, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-110062, IN
2 Management Studies, MAHE Manipal Dubai Campus, Block No.7., Academic City, P.O.Box: 500689, Dubai, AE

Abstract

Competitiveness is inevitably becoming an instrument for nations to measure their socio-economic prowess and subsequently to position and re-position their brand equity in a globalizing society. This paper duly investigates the actionable concept of competitive advantage for the fast developing landscapes of the globe. India and United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the two nations, which the paper considers to examine. The analysis is being undertaken considering various bases including the organizational frameworks within them, the existing business environment and the regional geopolitical stability prevalent thereof. Both the economies are now becoming a lucrative hub for global investors; and the paper therefore, evaluates their contemporary competitive advantage across socio-economic pursuits and the new strategies they are/could be using to make a global repositioning of their brand. It must be noted that a nation's prosperity depends on its ability to compete strategically by enhancing its productivity to become still closer to self-sufficiency. A close observation and comparative analysis of both the countries, with reference to emerging industries, services sector, infrastructure development and other promising variables, are being duly made. Whereas services sector are on the boom inboth countries, the infrastructure, ranging from cosmopolitan cities of Mumbai to Dubai, is also not lagging behind. The organizations should shift their strategic paradigms to become more advantage-oriented, so that they can contribute to the brand repositioning of their nation. The paper also reviews literatures of contemporary themes and relevance and suggest some of the measures that could be undertaken by these nations, as a whole, to strengthen their repositioning strategy in this dynamic business order. It may be duly ascertained that organizations within these countries should try to establish a cohesive interface amongst them, and manage the industry dynamics to further the global repositioning imperatives being undertaken by their respective countries.

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Faisal Ahmed ¹, Maneesh Kumar Ahuja ²

Affiliations
1 ICAT, Universitas Nurtanio, Bandung, ID
2 IFS India Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, IN

Abstract

Managing one's investments, especially when one has a financial surplus of even a few hundred dollars, is not a strenuous deed in the contemporary business climate. In furtherance to the same notion, the paper investigates the affluence and the actionable benefits associated with the mutual fund investments. Along with reviewing various literatures of topical interest, the paper initiates a serious discussion on the vitality of the key factors affecting an individual's choice for a particular mutual fund. A Mutual Fund Investment Decision (ID_mf) Function IS also being duly proposed to provide a framework to the investors to strategize their decisions in making a particular mutual fund investment. The function incorporates the essentially inevitable factors that drive an investor's decision choices for mutual funds. Moreover, a two-factor decision matrix based on Fund Size and NAV Returns, which culminates primarily from the ID_mf, Function, is also constructed with the one-amongst many intention of helping the investors assess and reassess their mutual funds investment inertia.

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