Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Business Firms
These exist for making
Organizations
Eg.- Universities,
Whom to sell ?
At what price !!!!!!!!!!!
commodity.
It is spread over a wide region. Grouping all the firms acc to the most prominent characteristics
This has been the most important assumption on which economists have built price and production theories.
This is the Theory of the Firm. A firm strives towards this goal rationally & has complete
information about the product, factors, market demand, supply and prices.
Profit is understood as the excess of firms Total Revenue of sales
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Assumptions of the Model Framework of the Model Drawbacks
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each other
A minimum profit constraint is imposed on the
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UTILITY FUNCTION
A set of factors which give rise to managerial satisfaction. Utility is taken to arises from certain aspects of management tasks like Responsibility Status Prestige Dominance Professional Excellence Security Salary, etc.
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Expense Preference
The satisfaction which managers derive from certain types of expenditures.
3 Variables:
Additional Expenditure on Staff ( S ) Managerial Emoluments ( M ) Discretionary Investments ( ID )
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U = f( S, M, ID)
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interdependence.
The model does not apply in a dynamic setup like changing