Niagara Mohawk's PowerChoice proposal has a central goal of creating competitive markets for electric power in the near term. PowerChoice would create an Independent System Operator (ISO) to manage load and, in addition, a competitive wholesale generation market in the form of a Power Exchange. The Power Exchange would operate in a manner similar to financial markets found around the world. By ...

This paper conceptualizes the developmental paths of information system (IS) capabilities as a network of interrelated constructs, driven by the skills and knowledge of a firm’s IT human resources. Because competitive IS capabilities need to be dynamic and market responsive, changing in tune with technological advances and market needs, organizational support, in particular top management commi...

This paper investigates three models to implement Tradable Green Certificates (TGC) system with aid of game theory approach. In particular, the competition between thermal and renewable power plants is formulated in three models: namely cooperative, Nash and Stackelberg game models. The price of TGC is assumed to be determined by the legislative body (government) which is fixed. Numerical examp...

in highly competitive market of food industry maintaining and increasing market share are results of brand performance. hence detecting the effective factors on the brand performance is crucial in strategic marketing decisions. data gathered by a 36-items questionnaire. the sample was composed of 131 managers and marketing experts in 62 companies in food industry those are located in tehran cit...

Generally the generation units in the traditional structure of the electricity industry try to minimize their costs. However, in a deregulated environment, generation units are looking to maximize their profits in a competitive power market. Optimum generation planning in such structure is urgent. This paper presents a new method of solving economic dispatch in the competitive electricity marke...

We call a market competitive if increasing the endowment of one buyer does not increase the equilibrium utility of another. We show every competitive uniform utility allocation market is a submodular utility allocation market, answering a question of Jain and Vazirani, (2007). Our proof proceeds via characterizing non-submodular fractionally sub-additive functions.

In today’s competitive market environment, pharmaceutical companies have learned that improving supply chain performance is critical to maintain competitive advantages. Forecasting, planning, procurement, financing, stock levels, and marketing strategies are some of the areas in which managers have to decide about them and balance their enter-related effects simultaneously, to achieve organizat...

In today’s competitive market environment, pharmaceutical companies have learned that improving supply chain performance is critical to maintain competitive advantages. Forecasting, planning, procurement, financing, stock levels, and marketing strategies are some of the areas in which managers have to decide about them and balance their enter-related effects simultaneously, to achieve organizat...

the purpose of this paper is to make explicit how companies in pharmaceutical sector can ensure their position in different markets by relying on a sustainable competitive advantages resulted from using a good defined marketing model. various factors are highlighted including high research and development roles and costs, hard government regulation in frame of gmp standard, market analysis tool...