This Book: “Plantation Management: A Study of the Management Practices in Rubber Plantation Industry in India and Malaysia†is the outcome of a major Research Project financed by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. It is based on an extensive field investigation in India and Malaysia conducted during March 1988 to March 1993 and a revisit to the field in January 2003. This revisit enabled us to update the data and make necessary revisions in the earlier findings. The Management practices followed in Rubber Plantation Industry in India were analysed, assessed and also compared with that in Malaysia, in the light techniques, usually used in business and industry. The recommendations emerging from the study are useful to all those who are concerned with the modernization of the rubber plantation industry. This book will be found useful by Researchers, Policy makers, Managers and Personnel in the Plantation Industry, particularly, the rubber plantation industry, and welcome it as a modest but pioneering contribution to the studies on plantation management in India, Malaysia and other rubber producing countries in the world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Sudarsanan Pillai
P. Sudarsanan Pillai, M.A. (Economics); M.Com.; L.L.B.; Ph.D.; is Professor and director of School of Management studies at Cochin University of Sciences and Technology, Kochi – 682022, Kerala, India. He is also the Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Management at Kannur University, Kannur and Dean, Faculty of Commerce at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, two other universities in Keral. He had been the Head of the Department of commerce at Cochin University of Science and Technology. He has also served on Academic Bodies and Selection Committees at several universities and as consultant in industrial organization and Financial Institution in India. His most recent research project was “A Study of the Management Practices in Rubber Plantation Industry in Indiaâ€, funded by the Indian council of Social science Research. This in-depth comparative analysis of the Management Practices followed in the Rubber Plantation Industry in India and Malaysia has been acclaimed as a pioneering study in the areas of Plantation Management. He has researched extensively in the areas of Plantation Management, Entrepreneurship Development, Banking, Commerce, Economics, Law and Rural Development and authored about eighty five research papers published in National and International journals. Several scholars have completed their M.Phil and Ph.D. dissertations under his guidance. He has extensively traveled in Malaysia and Singapore and got well-acquainted with the working of big plantation companies and also undergone a short-term course in Plantation Management at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. He is currently engaged in a Project on “A Study of the Management of Rubber Small Holdings in India and other Asian Countriesâ€.
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