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Galvin, Peter; Tywoniak, Stephane; Sutherland, Janet - 2008

– particularly where the boundaries of the firm lie and what they look like – rarely makes it into any knowledge management … capabilities by rethinking its organisational boundaries, both in terms of location and basic characteristics. The determination of … organisational boundaries is a classic theme with theories being developed on the basis of tasks and activities (Katz and Kahn 1966 …

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Resilience in Western Australian adolescents : a model of the processes that occur between risk and success.

Shean, Mandie B. - 2010

The aim of this research was to develop a model that represents how adolescents in the Western Australian context navigate their way to resilience. Resilience was defined as “the outcome from negotiations between individuals and their environments for the resources to define themselves as...

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Marketing Identities: Shifting Circles of Identification in Inter-organizational Relationships

Ellis, Nick; Ybema, Sierk - 2010

’ who discursively mark different self/other boundaries that varyingly position themselves, and their colleagues …

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The Incentive for Vertical Integration

Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2005

This paper evaluates the incentive of firms to vertically integrate in asimple 2X2 Bertrand model of two substitutes that are each comprised oftwo complementary components. It confirms that all prices fall as aresult of a vertical merger. Further, we find that, when the compositegoods are poor...

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Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets

Lee, Robin S. - Harvard Business School - 2007

This paper develops techniques to analyze the adoption decisions of bothconsumers and firms for competing platform intermediaries in two-sidedmarkets, and applies the methodology to empirically measure the impactof vertical integration and exclusive contracting in thesixth-generation of the U.S....

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Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Byung-Cheol - Michigan State University; Georgia Institute of Technology - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation oninvestment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and contentproviders (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show thatthe ISP s decision on the introduction of discrimination across contentdepends on a...

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Integrating photovoltaics into utility distribution systems

Zaininger, H.W.; Barnes, P.R. - 2009

Electric utility distribution system impacts associated with the integration of distributed photovoltaic (PV) energy sources vary from site to site and utility to utility. The objective of this paper is to examine several utility- and site-specific conditions which may affect economic viability...

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IRP and the electricity industry of the future: Workshop results

Tonn, B.; Hirst, E.; Bauer, D. - 2009

During the next several years, the U.S. electricity industry is likely to change dramatically. Instead of an industry dominated by vertically integrated companies that are regulated primarily by state public utility commissions, we may see an industry with many more participants and less...

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Empirical analysis of the spot market implications ofprice-elastic demand

Siddiqui, Afzal S.; Bartholomew, Emily S.; Marnay, Chris - 2008

Regardless of the form of restructuring, deregulated electricity industries share one common feature: the absence of any significant, rapid demand-side response to the wholesale (or, spotmarket) price. For a variety of reasons, electricity industries continue to charge most consumers an average...

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Empirical Analysis of the Spot Market Implications ofPrice-Responsive Demand

Siddiqui, Afzal S.; Bartholomew, Emily S.; Marnay, Chris - 2009

Regardless of the form of restructuring, deregulatedelectricity industries share one common feature: the absence of anysignificant, rapid demand-side response to the wholesale (or, spotmarket) price. For a variety of reasons, most electricity consumers stillpay an average cost based regulated...

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