FRANCIS CHERUNILAM (PhD, International Business) is Professor, School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala. He also served at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) as Professor and Chairman, Marketing Area. Professor Cherunilam is a prolific writer and has to his credit over two dozen books and over 150 research papers and articles on areas ranging from Management, Economics, and Demography to Habitat. He contributes a regular feature entitled “Corporate Scene” to Organisational Management, a quarterly journal. A consultant to several public and private sector organisations, Professor Cherunilam is a winner of the Air India Excellence Award for teachers.