As with most water companies in the world UK water companies face very little competition for the delivery of water within their area. However, recently both the government and the regulator, Ofwat, have indicated that they wish to see a major change in the industry through a significant growth of competition. The pricing of common carriage of water will be central to whether this objective can...

Today, e-commerce has become a top priority for organizations. By getting use of the Internet, organizations can significantly influence the attitudes of their customers and encourage them to benefit from the services provided by them. Consequently, organizations can affordably become a leader in the market, supply, delivery, and service. Furthermore, development of e-commerce in all existing...

O spills are a characteristic risk of oil drilling and production. There are safety regulations set to reduce the risk of technological failures and human error. It is the oil company’s decision to follow such laws and the government’s decision to enforce them. Companies are balancing between safety efforts and production competition with other companies. To our knowledge, no previous research ...

Several advantages are pointed by the literature indicating the articulation among companies of a same sector located in a same territory. In Brazil, however, the cooperation and the alliances creations for mutual exploration of business opportunities, especially among small companies, still happens with a lot of difficulty. This is due, mainly, to cultural factors as lack of mutual trust and t...

the research and development sector in the pharmaceutical industry is very costly and complex, and companies are constantly engaging in competition with each other for opening of their new products. in fact, since the generic producers principally have no research and development programs, they are economically able to offer their products to the market with lower prices. finally, this differen...

ranking of companies listed on the exchange represent their status and considered a criterion for investment. also, it increases market's competition, development and efficiency. in this study, the fifty superior companies listed in tehran stock exchange were ranked based on financial ratios (liquidity, operational, leverage and profitability) using fahp- ftopsis hybrid approach during the...

increasing competitiveness between software companies , that stems from customer needs and new information technologies, obliges the companies to improve their products’ quality according to high speed and low cost. this research seeks to introduce and determine the software production assembly line, one of the software development approaches. a three stage questionnaire was used to collect inf...