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    • Independence of irrelevant transfers 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (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 ...

    • Leisure, Health and Stress 

      Pestonjee, D. M.; Muncherji, Nina B. (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 ...

    • Modelling and analysis of large systems: Some approaches 

      Tripathy, A. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
      The concept and nature of large scale modeling have been presented. The necessity of having a good grasp of the system has been stressed. Some of the large scale modeling efforts have been presented.

    • Agro processing industries: Potential, constraints and task ahead 

      Srivastava, U. K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
      An agro- industry is an enterprise that processes bio- mass. i.e agriculture raw materials. Which include ground and tree crops as well as livestock and fisheries to create edible or usable forms. Improve storage and shelf ...

    • Managing ecological diversity, simultaneity, complexity and change: An eco- political perspective 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-10-01)
      Mainly Indian studies on Governance From Ecological Perspective during last decade were reviewed as a part of third survey on public administration organized by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. The ...

    • A Lagrangian heuristic for the capacitated plant location problem with side constraints 

      Sridharan, R. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-09-01)
      In this paper we present a Lagrangian relaxation approach for solving the capacitated plant location problem with side constraints. The side constraints are upper bound constraints on disjoint subsets of the (0-1) variables. ...

    • Rationalization of bargaining solutions by symmetric metrics and respect for unanimity 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-09-01)
      In this paper we show that rationalizability of bargaining solution by a symmetric metric implies that the bargaining solution is anonymous. We further show that rations ability of a bargaining solution by a metric implies ...

    • Narmada project: An opportunity for redefining social relations 

      Gupta, Anil K. (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 ...

    • Narmada valley project: A disaster or an imparative for gujarat 

      Mehta, S. S.; Srivastava, U. K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
      We consider it a privelege to join issues with Baba Amte on Narmada project. He has argued (Indian Express July 9, 1989) that Narmada Project requires a complete reconsideration because its costs in terms of human suffering, ...

    • Regional aspects of industrialization in india 

      Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
      Removal of regional disparity in the levels of economic development as a national goal is translated into the removal of regional disparity in the levels of industrialization for the industrial policy. With the state as a ...

    • The existence and continuity of utility functions: A new proof 

      Varma, Jayanth Rama (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
      It is well known that the existence of a countable order dense subset is necessary and sufficient for a preference order to be representable by a utility function, and that this condition is also sufficient for the utility ...

    • Where utility functions do not exist: A note on lexicographic orders 

      Varma, Jayanth Rama (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 ...

    • Mega projects implementation: Issues for top management 

      Shukla, P. R.; Tripathy, A. (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 ...

    • Motives, abilities and attitudes of an entrepreneur - Some propositions 

      Swamy, Ranjini (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. ...

    • An overview of pesticides industry and marketing environment 

      Srivastava, U. K.; Patel, N. T. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-07-01)
      Pesticides are broadly classified into 5 major groups: 1) Insecticides, 2) Fungicides, 3) Herbicides, 4) Rodenticides, and 5) Fumigants. The constitutions of this industry includes technical grade material manufacturers, ...

    • Preferred organizations: Perceptions of prospective managers 

      Chhokar, Jagdeep S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-06-01)
      Formal management education in india has come a long way since its inception in the early sixties. Starting with the setting up of the indian institute of management in calcutta in 1961 today there are more than sixty ...

    • Framework for integrated energy planning with application in india 

      Moulik, T. K.; Shukla, P. R. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-03-01)
      This paper presents a hierarchical framework for integarted energy planning and applications of the framework for planning at different levels. The proposed planning framework links macro level national and/ or state ...

    • Indian organizations: Value dilemmas in managerial role taking 

      Parikh, Indira J.; Garg, Pulin K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-03-01)
      Indian organizations being part of the context of indian society and culture reflect the juxtaposition of divergent, multiple and heterogenous elements of two diverse cultures. One is the traditional agrarian culture of ...

    • Problems and challenges in transferring and adapting knowhow management to india 

      Parikh, Indira J. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-03-01)
      Man has been an explorer for centuries. His exploration has taken him within and across continents, the seas and the oceans and how he explores the skies. His urge has been to discover, adventure, conquer, learn and ...

    • Procedures for generating an informationally efficient equitable solution 

      Lahiri, Somdeb (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-02-01)
      In this paper we consider two games which generate A- envy free allocations in a pure exchange economy with a fixed supply of resources and agents preferences being representable by utility functions. The first game is ...