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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 India”, 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 Countries”.