simulation that models a “liberalized†retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or â …€œbrokers†offer energy services to customers through tariff contracts, and must then serve those customers by trading in a wholesale … market. Brokers are challenged to maximize their profits by buying and selling energy in the wholesale and retail markets …

Personal strategies of owners/founders of small business startups are related to performance and to environmental … strategy and performance. A discrimination is made between four strategies (reactive, critical point, complete planning and …

customers, and new market leaders. This paper examines the deviation among reviews of a technology’s performance and its …) from 1982 to 2007, the authors find that: (1) there exists vast deviation among reviews of technology performance leading … performance and, (4) both higher technology performance and a higher deviation affect sales positively, also when one controls for …

To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in … policies in a specific company. In this way the paper broadens the present HRM and Performance debate by explicitly taking into …

innovation is more beneficial to a unit’s financial performance in more competitive environments. Through this richer …

extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we … stakes of a particular category of investor and a firm's financial performance and investment behavior is highly …

Learning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance …, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement …