Essays on Research Methodology (PDF)

Dinesh S. Hegde is a former Professor of Economics, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai where he had been teaching courses such as industrial environment & policy, global economic perspectives, business analysis & econometric applications and research methodology for well over two decades. He had earlier taught at Bayero University Kano, Nigeria and University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. While with the latter, he also served as a Consultant/Coordinator for a major research project on inter-industrial flow matrix jointly sponsored by the University Department of Economics, Ministry of Planning & Development, Govt. of Tanzania and SIDA. Over the years, Dr. Hegde has supervised many Masters & Doctoral dissertations and numerous summer/winter projects in addition to undertaking several consulting assignments and executive training programmes for corporate across oil, gas, power, electronics, chemicals, automobiles, airports and ports on diverse techno-economic/managerial issues of concern. His areas of expertise include techno-economic studies, technology evaluation, labour and infrastructure on which he has published numerous articles in reputed journals and also contributed papers in edited volumes. Presently, he is Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management Raipur.

Other contributors:

Dr. Rita Aggarwal, Professor and Director, Faculty of Management & Technology, Harish Chandra Post-graduate College, Varanasi, India

Dr. R. Bandyopadhyay: Former Director, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India; Visiting Research Professor, University of Manchester, UK; currently Hon. Director, CASAD, Pune, India

Dr. L.M. Bhole, Former Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Dr. Amitabha Gupta, Former Professor of Logic and Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Dr. V.K. Kool, Professor, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, NY,