Dharana – Bhavan’s International Journal of Business welcomes original articles on research into theory and practice of Business and Management. Publication will depend on relevance and clarity. Articles of speculative nature and of wide ramification will also be considered.An article should not be more than 5000 words. The article should have proper reference to key articles in the author’s chosen topic area.

REFEREEING : Research contributions received will be subjected to review by two or more referees on a ‘double blind’ system, whereby the name(s) of contributor(s) as also that of the referees will be kept concealed from each other. Acceptance of an article is dependent on meeting the standards set by the journal. Revision whenever necessary should be done by the author(s) before publication.

PAPER PROCESSING FEES : A processing fee of Rs.500 ($ 10 for contributors from abroad) is charged for normal processing. In case the processing time is to be reduced to one month then the fee amount is Rs. 1000 ($ 20 for contributors from abroad).

COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATION : Submission of any article implies that it will not be published in any form/language in any other journal. The author(s) shall assign copyright to the publisher for sanctioning reprints, photocopies and reprinting complete issues/ volumes at a later period. Traditional rights of the author(s) would not, however, be jeopardized by assigning copyrights to the publisher, i.e., the author(s) has (have) the right, to reuse, veto publication of third party and obtain (or seek permission) for quoting in any other journal. Submission of an article shall be accompanied by a written declaration that the article is an original contribution and has not been submitted elsewhere for publication.

PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT : The article should be written in clear and concise English. The typeset should be in double-line spacing on single sided A4 size paper with a one-inch margin on all sides of each page. Pages should be numbered sequentially.

References, tables, exhibits and legends for figures should be printed on separate pages. One hard copy and one soft copy (on a CD) in MS Word format, should be submitted. The e-version of the article would be used for refereeing, reviewing, and for authors’ editing & final revision.

REFERENCES : All references should be indexed using arabic numerals and referred in the manuscript by the corresponding numbers.

A Journal Publication : Glazer Rashi, Joel H. Steckel and Russel S. Winer, “Locally Rational Decision Making: The Distracting effort of information on Managerial performance”, Management sciences, 38, February 1992, 212-226.

A Conference Publication : S.F. Roehrig, Path analysis and probabilistic networks: analogous concepts, in: Jay F. Nunamaker, R.H. Sprague (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. III, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1993, pp. 523–532.

A Monograph: Harawini G. Swavy I, “Mergers and acquisitions in the US Banking Industry: Evidence from the capital markets”, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1990.

An article in an edited book: Mac Avoy and E. Roberts, “Establishing Superior Performance through Competitive Analysis”, in Strategic Planning and Management Hand book, William R. King and David I. Chelland (eds.), Van Nostrand, New York, 1987.

A Book: A. Zeithaml Valarie, A. Parasuraman and Leonard L. Berry, “Delivering Quality Services: Balancing customer perception and expectations”, Tree Press, New York, 1990.

Webliography: http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle; Date of retrieval: 21 October 2007.

ARRANGEMENT OF ARTICLES

The article should be arranged in the following order :

1. Title, Author(s), Affiliations, Postal and e-mail addresses.
2. 2. A 100 word abstract briefing the purpose, scope, conclusions, along with keywords and phrases.
3. Sequential arrangement of the text with proper headings.
4. Acknowledgement(s), if any.
5. References (including Webliography).
6. Table(s) or/and Exhibit(s) each on the narrative sheet to ensure logical sequence.
7. Illustrations on a separate sheet without text.

Title, Name(s) of Author(s), and the abstract should be centered. Rest of the text, along with section headings, subsection headings and formula(s) should be left justified. Keywords and phrases should be in italics.

The first page of the manuscript should contain:

• Title,
• Name(s) of the author(s) and institutional affiliation(s),
• Abstract of about 100 words,
• Keywords and phrases,
• A footnote containing the corresponding author’s name, address,e-mail address, telephone and fax number, if any.

Acknowledgement(s), if any, on resource person(s) and/or of grants received may be mentioned as a foot note.

Footnotes may be used wherever necessary to a minimum, and they should be double spaced.

Formula(s) should be numbered on the right hand margin. Derivation details of Formula(s) may be provided on separate sheets.