The California electric company, i.e., PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric Co.,), has recently announced its intentions to charge small businesses in the state with dynamic prices for electricity consumption. In this regard, we study a real-time electricity pricing model in the paper and compare it with two static pricing models. We show that real-time pricing outplays static pricing when it comes t...

A simulator environment to study and understand capacity auction has been developed based on the online web simulator econport. The goods to auction are unloading rights for ships that transport liquefied natural gas (LNG) into harbours. Experiments have been carried out at a company that will participate in the future capacity market. The efficiency of the auctions both for the auctioneer and ...

To probe how ‘good minds’ think, I asked 16 CEOs who ran (or had been running until recently) successful oil and gas companies to read a realistic decision scenario which presented three strategic alternatives: to invest in a new technology, to explore in the Arctic in a joint venture, or to acquire another oil company. The chief executives were then asked to think out loud how they would decid...

results does not imply CIEE endorsement of or agreement with these findings, nor that of any CIEE sponsor. developed this project for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company under Contract S9902A, to support PG&E's energy efficiency programs in new and existing residential buildings. The Project manager for PG&E is Lance Elberling (with the assistance of Marshall Hunt). The authors would like to t...

the business environment changes caused to change in managers and researchers approach about leadership principles. they have to revise leadership traditional theories and developed new theory for leadership as “transformational leadership theory”. transformational leader with charisma; idealized influence; inspirational motivation; intellectual stimulation; and individualized consideration, emp...

buyer commitment to an exchange relation is a key issue in industrial marketing. commitment to an exchange has several benefits for buyer and seller such as increasing exchange efficiency, decreasing exchange cost and uncertainty. this article investigates commitment in b2b relationships from perspective of purchasing department managers. in the present study the satisfaction effects of purchas...

Methanol is a key material used as feedstock in the chemical industry which mainly produced from natural gas and coal. Indonesia well-known for its resources including large reserves of become third largest Asia-Pacific. However, even Asia are having gaps between production demand that need to be fulfilled. only has one methanol producer still importing amount it despite increasing demand. A na...

A population-based survey of 134 white men, recruited from the Chicago People's Gas Company labor force, was carried out to examine the association between sodium-lithium (Na-Li) countertransport and hypertension. Of the 134 participants in this industry-sponsored periodic health examination, 64 were normotensive and 70 were either taking antihypertensive medications or had a systolic pressure ...