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Household energy behaviour and urban development: The case of Ahmedabad
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)
Energy is a key input to meet the basic needs of human beings like food, clothing and shelter. Household energy behaviour needs to be understood for ensuring individual and social well being. The urban household energy use ...
Considerations in evolving a comprehensive leasing policy for inland waterbodies for fish production
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1987-09-01)
Inland fishery resources can be classified in terms of river, fresh water ponds, reserveirs and brackish- water bodies(ponds for culture, farms for capture/ filteration, lakes, swamps and estuaries). (sea figure-1) Some ...
Individual taxation: A proposal for reform
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1985-06-01)
Inflation affects real income tax liabilities in two ways. First, inflation erodes the value of fixed rupee amounts ( for example, ceiling on doductions, nil tax income slab, etc.) and second, in a progressive tax system, ...
Central excise revenues from major commodities and the sources of their growth
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-09-01)
Indirect taxes are the mainstay of India's tax system, currently accounting for about 86% of the total tax collections.The major indirect taxes are: central excise duty, customs duty, sales tax, state excise duty, vehicle ...
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 ...
Narmada project: An opportunity for redefining social relations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-09-01)
There has been a heated controversy around the Narmada Project. Environmentalists have rightly argued for an open and informed debate. The government and the academics supporting it have felt that all the information has ...