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The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency … purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in … energy and water efficiency can increase the fundamental profitability of real estate investments by raising Net Operating …
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The efficiency of the design-to-analysis process for translating solid-model-based design data to computational … obtained from Sandia staff member and management interviews suggest that the current Sandia design-to-analysis process is not … mature and that this cross-organizational issue requires committed high-level ownership. A key recommendation of the study is …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … that privatization to foreign owners markedly improved the efficiency of firms, whereas privatization to domestic owners …
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Because the Mexican government has encouraged investment in Mexico by increasing the percentage of ownership of a …
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is available on the OCFO website (www.lbl.gov/Workplace/CFO). In August, the senior management team of the OCFO … management contract that was signed fives years ago required us to achieve cost savings of $30M. I am proud to announce that this … barcode scanning that made the inventory process much more efficient. The effective management of the American Recovery and …
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The effects of various financial incentives on potential developers of geothermal electric energy are studied and the impact of timing of plant construction costs on geothermal electricity costs is assessed. The effect of the geothermal loan guarantee program on decisions by investor-owned...
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strategic management. The findings reveal a more managerial form of organization in which the core elements of the traditional …
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In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...
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