Traditional management of electricity portfolios is focused on the day-ahead market and futures of longer maturity. Market participants use these markets to trade any excess production or consumption in their portfolio and balance their total position. Within limits, market participants can also resort to the balancing energy market to close their positions. The energy transactions on the balan...

Organizational design is a critical facilitator of strategic information age initiatives. Yet traditional IT structures are misaligned with the information age because they cannot cope with continual change and the rapid horizontal introduction and utilization of gregarious information technologies. An organizational structure that combines the ideas of minibusinesses and the internal marketpla...

We investigated whether s-ketamine differentially affects strategic allocation of attention. In Experiment 1, (1) a less visible cue was weakly masked by the onsets of competing placeholders or (2) a better visible cue was not masked because it was presented in isolation. Both types of cue appeared more often opposite of the target (75%) than at target position (25%). With this setup, we tested...

Introduction: This paper proposes an appropriate strategy for exporting Hepatitis B vaccine, manufactured by Pasteur Institute of Iran, to other countries. Methods: Eeffectiveness factors and their relative variables were found out by factor analysis method in SPSS software. Results: We could identify 6 main factors which can extremely affect the export of this product. We evaluated manufacture...

This study empirically examined the patterns and performance consequences of strategic changes of SMEs in response to environmental changes, based on longitudinal data from 102 Korean electronic parts SMEs for the period from 1990 to 2001. Using the dynamic analysis of strategic groups in the Korean electronic parts SMEs, this study found that four to five different strategic patterns (subcontr...

foreign direct investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like bangladesh through accelerating gross domestic product (gdp), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. the present scenario of fdi in bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...

Embedded strategic flexibility may have a significant impact on the net worth of a software development project. Disregarding the additional value of flexibility may make a project look less attractive than it actually is. In this position paper we show how strategic flexibility in software projects can be valued in a practical and methodical manner using the concept of real options. The valuat...

In this paper, we explore how discourse can be used as a strategic resource. Using an illustrative example of Mère et Enfant, an international NGO operating in Palestine, we show how an individual brought about strategic change by engaging in discursive activity. We use this to outline a model of how discourse can be mobilized as a strategic resource. The model consists of three circuits. First...

Open Source Software (OSS) is a strategic asset for organisations thanks to its short time-to-market, the opportunity for a reduced development effort and total cost of ownership, and its customization capabilities. OSS-based solutions include projects that are developed and co-evolve within the same organisation, OSS communities, companies, and regulatory bodies, forming an articulated strateg...