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Leadership and management in formal work organizations and educational institutions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-11-01)
This paper examines 1) the definition and concept of leadership as reflected in educational institutions and formal organizations 2) patterns and models of leadership in the western indian context, 3) the resultant ...
Leisure, Health and Stress
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
The term ‘leisure’ derives from the Latin “licere” meaning “ to be permitted”, and is defined in the modern dictionary as freedom from occupation, employment, or engagement.
Leisure has meant different things in different ...
Ghana’s public sector finances: Recent developments and issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-11-01)
Ghana’s public sector is fairly large and diverse. Of the different components of the public sector (central government, public enterprises and local authorities), the central government plays a dominant role in resource ...
Egalitarian departures from the ideal point
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-11-01)
In this paper we propose a new solution to bargaining or group decision problems, which requires an arbitrator to choose that point on the pareto frontier of the feasible set where losses in utility from the ideal point ...
Independence of irrelevant transfers
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
In this paper, we provide a partial geometric characterization of the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIM) Axiom, called Independence of Irrelevant Transfers (IIT) as also a characterization of the nash bargaining ...
Fair allocations and distortion of utilities: A note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-01-01)
Given two agents with von neumann- morgenstern utilities who wish to divide n commodities, consider the two- person non- cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing von neumann- Morenstern utility ...
Coalitional fairness and distortion of utilities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-01-01)
Given a finite number of agents with utilities who wish to divide a finite number of commodities, consider the non- cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing utility functions and whose outcomes ...
Where utility functions do not exist: A note on lexicographic orders
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
There seems to be some amount of confusion in the finance text books regarding the conditions under which an individual's preferences can be represented by a utility function. Fama and Miller, for example, assert that two ...
Motives, abilities and attitudes of an entrepreneur - Some propositions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
In this paper, we have conceptualized the entrepreneurial process as comprising of three stages- the decision to become an entrepreneur, which field to be an entrepreneur in, and the actual creation of an organization.
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Mega projects implementation: Issues for top management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
Project implementation is a complex job. The entire field of project management can be broadly classified into three phases: I) project planning, II) project implementation, and III) project operation. certain amount of ...