The prominent features of the Fourth Edition include but are not limited to:
Incorporation of the six contemporaneous topics: Tourism Entrepreneurship; Agri Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Family Business in India, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs); and Social Responsibility of Business.
Class assignments and case studies at the end of almost all chapters enable the students to knead their theoretical knowledge with empirical evidences. Use of anecdotes, boxes, caselets, and couplets throughout the book to
illustrate the subject material in more authentic and convincing manner. Readers will find this Fourth Edition of the book to be more comprehensive and contemporaneous, as well as a success in fulfilling their requirements.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SS Khanka, MCom (Gold Medallist); PhD, is currently Professor (HR) at the University School of Management & Entrepreneurship of Delhi Technological University (DTU) [Formerly Delhi College of Engineering (DCE)], Delhi. Prior to joining DTU, he was Professor at the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM). Ministry of Finance, Government of India, Faridabad; Tezpur University. Tezpur, Assam University, Silchar Reader at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi; and Senior Lecturer at Kumaun University, Nainital.
He has to his credit authorship of five reference and six textbooks in Commerce and Management, published over 60 research articles in national and international journals of repute, and has successfully completed five research projects sponsored by AICTE. ICSSR, and UGC. He has teaching and research experience of over four decades with international exposure as Visiting Professor Bishkek International School of Management and Business, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) and the Department of Management, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). His areas of teaching, research, and training include Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Entrepreneurship Development, and Ethics and Values,
Professor Khanka is the recipient of Shiksha Rattan Puraskar by Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Best Teacher Award in Human Resource Management at the 19th Dewang Mehta Business School Awards and is also a recognised National Trainer on Ethics and Values in Public Governance by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).