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Potential impacts of agroforestry systems on rural communities and regions in india: Methodological and general issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-02-01)Agronomic research has shown that, under several edaphic and climatic environment, judicious simultaneous and/or sequential combinations of seasonal crops and trees could lead to greater efficiency in resources use due to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Market - Wide commonalities in corporate earnings and significance tests of accounting beta
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-05-01)Financial theorists have emphasized for years the importance of expectational variables in the valuation of shares. The price of share is determined primarily by investors current expectations about the firm's future ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
On the estimation of elasticity in economics
(1984-12-01)For the measurement of elasticity, given two observation of a bivariate relationship, the arc elasticity formula has been traditionally used by economists and statisticians. However, no proper statistical justification for ... -
Indian business houses and entrepreneurship: A note on research trends
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Empirical research in entrepreneurship is of recent origin. This is so because it is only recently that the entrepreneurial and managerial ability was accorded full recognition as one of the proximate causes of economic ... -
Manufacturing resources planning - A study
(i, 1984-12-01)Manufacturing resources planning can be said to be one of the most significant development to have taken places in the area of manufacturing software in recent years. It is also termed as MRP- II, to distinguish it form ... -
Issues for research on rural development in south asia
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)There has been tremendous upsurge in writings on rural development during last decade. Incidently the economic policies followed during this period in various countries of south asia have intensified the contradictions in ... -
Why don't we learn
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)Rural development is essentially a process of widening decision making options of the majority of the poor. Creating choices without generating capacity to act might impair learning abilities of both, who create choices ... -
Learning by doing: Technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)This paper present an indepth case study of technology transfer to an indian manufacturing firm in the tractor industry and highlights the complexities involved as a result of the interaction of a number of factors both ... -
PLC: State of the art review
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)Two decates of discussion has still to clear the fog surrounding the validity of the PLC concept. This paper review available evidence, and attempts to identity some of the issues that PLC researchers need to address. ... -
Indian work on organizational effectiveness
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-10-01)Organizational effectiveness is a multi- dimensional construct. It may also be an important systemic variable which is both an outcome of organizational structures and processes and also their determinant. The multi- ... -
A network planning model for power transmission system: A suggested module for wasp programme
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1977-09-01)This paper explores the possibility of improving the utility of the well-known WASP computer package for investment planning in power systems by introducing a Network Planning Model for representing and planning the power ... -
Firm life cycle and real - activity based earnings management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)We examine real-activity based earnings management, i.e., cuts in discretionary innovation/marketing spending and overproduction for meeting the earnings benchmark of avoiding losses across firms’ life cycle. We use the ... -
An overview of the trucking sector in india: Significance and structure
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-23)The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the trucking sector. It describes the significance of road transport and the structure of the trucking industry. It also explores the causes and consequences of the ... -
The surrogacy law conundrum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-01-21)India has emerged as an international centre of ‘surrogacy industry’. The practice raises complex ethical, moral and legal questions. With reference to the Baby M Case, the paper explores the legal validity of surrogacy ...