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Power, knowledge and change: investigating the dynamics of regulatory change from a Foucauldian perspective

Syed, Sabeeh - 2011

situated in a theory of power. This study responds to Foucault’ssuggestion that knowledge should be re-examined in the change … management literature to betterunderstand the interlinked nature of power and knowledge. The study adopts Foucault’s regimes ….This research project produced several key findings. Foucault’s regimes of truth and the interplayof power and knowledge were found …

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Expanding the explanatory powers of agency theory for the knowledge economy: Implications for enterprise integration systems and knowledge workers

Wickramasinghe, N - 2006

Researchers have questioned whether the new knowledge economy is fundamentally different from the social and economic contexts of the 19th and 20th centuries (Webster, 2002). Some argue that classic economic theories still apply with equal relevance; while others claim that we are in the midst of...

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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume II, 1985-1988 Technical Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

The incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative measures and their systemwide implications. The BPA anticipate...

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Design of Studies for Development of BPA Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Accounting Policy Phase II, Volume I, 1985-1988 Summary Report.

Kneese, Allen V. - 2008

As the mitigation prescribed by the Regional Act proceeds, the incremental costs of corrective measures to lessen the environmental impacts of the hydroelectric system are expected to increase and difficult questions to arise about the costs, effectiveness, and justification of alternative...

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Contracts for dispatchable power

Kahn, E.P.; Stoft, S.; Marnay, C.; Berman, D. - 2008

Competitive bidding for electric power is maturing. Increasing numbers of utilities are soliciting proposals from …

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ELSA: an electric power supply analysis model for the Pacific Northwest. [Effects of developments]

Harrington, T.P.; Jacobsen, J.J. - 2008

(Electric Power Supply Analysis Model), one component of this overall program, is a simulation model of the electric supply … test their effect on the cost and availability of power. ELSA is divided into three major sectors: production, regulatory …

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A prefeasibility study of energy resource options in Hainan, China

Hill, L.J.; Russell, M.; Barron, W.F.; LaRocco, P.; Shen, Z. - 2008

This study identifies a strategy that (1) provides future energy services for Hainan in the least environmentally degrading way, (2) eliminates the need to build significant amounts of new fossil-fueled, electric generating capacity, saving capital to invest in other development projects, (3)...

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Electricity pricing as a demand-side management strategy: Western lessons for developing countries

Hill, L.J. - 2008

expansion to meet current and future electric power demand. …

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The role of analytical models: Issues and frontiers

Blair, P. - 2008

A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … only modest mechanisms to facilitate increased bulk power transactions between utility systems. More fundamental changes in … market structure, such as the existence of independent power producers or wheeling transactions between customers and utility …

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Economics of geothermal electricity generation from hydrothermal resources

Bloomster, C.H.; Knutsen, C.A. - 2007

steam and binary power cycles are closely competitive; the binary cycle appears better when the brine temperature is below … reduction in power costs would be achieved by reducing well drilling costs, stimulating well flow rates, reducing powerplant …

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