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The paper develops value based management guidelines from the famous Indian treatise on management, Kautilya's Arthashastra. Guidelines are given for individual components of a total framework in detail, which include guidelines for organizational philosophy, value based leadership, internal corporate culture, accomplishment of corporate purpose and feedback from stakeholders.
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N. Siva Kumar finished his M.B.A. in 1989 and is at present a lecturer having completed research under the title ‘Value Based Management — Historical Roots in India and Current Practices’.
Prof. U. S. Rao is presently the Dean of School of Business Management, Accounting and Finance in Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. He has over 20 years of academic and industrial experience in various organizations. He has published papers in the areas of Corporate Planning, MIS and Industrial Engineering.
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Kumar, N.S., Rao, U.S. Guidelines for value based management in Kautilya's Arthashastra. Journal of Business Ethics 15, 415–423 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00380362
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