Valuing Energy Options in a One Factor Model Clewlow and Strickland Valuing Energy Options in a One Factor Model Fitted to Forward Prices Les Clewlow and Chris Strickland This Version: 15th April 1999 School of Finance and Economics University of Technology, Sydney, Australia The Financial Options Research Centre Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, UK Centre for Financial Mathematics Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
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markets: a transaction cost model Ting-Peng Liang ) , Jin-Shiang Huang 1 Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen UniÕersity, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Abstract Electronic commerce is gaining much attention from researchers and practitioners. Although increasing numbers of products are being marketed on the web, little effort has been spent on studying what product is more suitable for marketing electronically and why. In this research, a model based on the transaction cost
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Strategy Management, 16(1) 15-28, Retrieved on October 2,2011 from Business Source Complete Database. Part 1: Synopsis of the article: This article discusses how current targeting of customers by a direct marketing firm can result in misleading models of customer response due to the truncation of observations for the customers who are not contacted, as well as the inevitable mis-specification of the explanatory variables in the models. The authors discuss the importance of adopting a diversity of
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm JMD 30,2 Leadership behaviors, organizational culture and knowledge management practices An empirical investigation Hai Nam Nguyen and Sherif Mohamed School of Engineering, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between leadership behaviors and knowledge management (KM) practices. More specifically
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Comparison of CO2 Emissions from Electric Vehicles and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles | | In order to determine if the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) was significantly less from electric vehicles (EV) compared to gasoline powered vehicles, an evaluation was conducted using 5 EV’s and 5 comparable gasoline powered vehicles that were driven 8,000 miles with the average CO2 emissions being measured. The results were that the average CO2 emissions for the EV’s were 4,329 lbs. and the average
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Chapter 3 Information Systems, Organizations, and Strategy 101 I N T E R A C T I V E S E S S I O N : T E C H N O LO GY 7-ELEVEN STORES ASK THE CUSTOMER BY ASKING THE DATA There is probably a 7-Eleven store in your neighborhood, and it’s a convenient place for picking up a can of Coke or a quick ham-and-cheese sandwich. It’s the largest convenience retailer in the world and the number one convenience store chain in the United States, with 5,300 stores. This company started out about 75 years
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How are these technologies related to UPS’s business strategy? * Computer Center (Data Center) – This is the one that handles the processing and all of the global data process that is feed into the tracking system. * Bar-coding technology - goes with their strategy in delivering packages at the fastest possible time. * Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) - The DIAD also supported their business strategy of streamlining their business operations to provide best service to the
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Discussion: Understanding MIS Student: Michael Lance Professor: Matt Keogh The four competitive strategies are Operational excellence, New products, Services, and Business Models, and Customer and Supplier Intimacy and Improved Decision making. In the company I work for operational excellence and the use of information systems and technology is what has kept us in business. Operational excellence is trying to perfect a company’s efficiency and maximize profits in an ever changing market
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also be able to know how is efficiency in the restaurant. 3. Lets define the business process first to link it with the Yas International restaurant, its set of logically related tasks and behaviors that organization develops over time to produce a specific business results and the unique manner in which these activities are organized and coordinated. Now the restaurant having very weak ordering system business process because they are not generating and fulfilling an order properly, there is
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Lecture 1, 2, 3, 4 Business: Formal organization that makes profit. MIS: How to use information system and technology to help your firm achieve business objectives. Why is information system important for business? 1. Operational excellence 2. New products, services, and business models. 3. Improved decision making 4. Attain consumer and supplier intimacy. 5. Promote competitive advantages. 6. Ensure survival of organization. Data: Raw facts that represent objects and events occurring in an organization
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