A number of state public utility commissions are using "social costing" methods to consider externalities in electricity resource planning. The most comprehensive and formal method is the use of monetary place-holders in the financial evaluation of new investments and potentially in system...

This paper uses the detailed information in the 1995 Census of Industrial Production as a benchmark for analysing the coverage, concepts and consistency of published statistical series. On the basis of the analysis, the paper proposes a series of adjustments which result in more consistent...

Electricity market reforms have occurred in many countries, including both developed and developing countries. The main objectives for electricity market reform in developed countries focus on reducing the production costs and electricity prices while the developing countries aim to improve...

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...

One of the main characteristics of market economies is market competition where companies have to deliver and achieve the best possible results amid continuous challenges. It is always worth learning from the best performers. The voestalpine Group is a market leader steel producing company and a...

Strategic Human Resource management is recognised as one area through which companies may sustain competitive advantage. The goal of this research is to gain an insight into the extent to which Human Resource (HR) acts as a strategic partner in Mauritian leading organisations.This study, which...

Scientific research on employees during pre-implementation phases of human resource information systems (HRIS) is difficult for a number of reasons. First, the constraints of practitioner research in terms of sample sizes, compliance factors and difficulties with obtaining control or comparison...

My dissertation focuses on employers' strategies to manage the workplace through the use of alternative employment contracts. It consists of three empirical studies. The first study qualitatively explores managers' interpretations of temporary employment contracts. The findings suggest that the...

The entry of women into the professional world has, without a doubt, changed the dynamics of the workplace over the past few decades. That observation still holds true today and becomes more prevalent with the changing face of the labor market in terms of diversity. However, in spite of that...

The purposes for this study are: 1) To examine the influence of the management style of restaurant affiliation (chain and independent restaurants) on the relationships between organization citizenship behavior and three factors: a. part-time employee’s perceived supervisor support, b....