Similar Search Results

Customers' risk tolerance and suppliers' investment inefficiency

Hrazdil, Karel; Kim, Jeong-bon; Li, Xin - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-20

upstream firms (i.e., suppliers). Using the pilot licensing status of the CEOs as a proxy for their inherent risk tolerance, we … find that customer firms led by pilot CEOs are associated with suppliers' investment inefficiency, where investment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201366

Single axis automatic tracking system based on PILOT scheme to control the solar panel to optimize solar energy extraction

Ghassoul, Mostefa - In: Energy Reports 4 (2018), pp. 520-527

energy extraction. This is done by the design of a tracking system known as the PILOT and cells rotating system known as … PANEL. First the system is oriented towards the east waiting for sun to rise. When this happens, the PILOT keeps tracking … converter always lines the PILOT with the sun. Two identical light dependent resistors (LDR) are mounted, one on the PILOT and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651897

Modeling the impact of safety climate on process safety in a modern process industry: The case of the UAE's oil-refining industry

Al Mazrouei, Mohamed Ali; Khalid, Khalizani; Davidson, … - In: Cogent Business & Management 6 (2019), pp. 1-21

This study examines the psychometric properties of process safety and models the relationships between top management commitment to safety (Model 1), top management safety practices (Model 2), and supervisory safety behavior (Model 3). It is hypothesized that these determinants are positively...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117446

Internal crisis communication (ICC) framework in high risk industry: A qualitative study from key informants’ perspectives

Mohamad, Bahtiar; Adamu, Adamu Abbas; Akanmu, Muslim Diekola - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the antecedents and the consequences of ICC from the perspectives of the employees and validates the framework and operational definition of ICC in high-risk industry, which is yet to be identified in the past literature. Existing academic literature are used to develop...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527811

Improving safety culture in the company based on attitudes and behavior of its employees

Gembalska-Kwiecien, Anna - 2017

Research background: The paper presents basic issues related to safety culture. Moreover, there can be found an information about the factors determining the desirable and undesirable, as well as the good and bad safety culture, and the most important knowledge concerning its shaping. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232518

Safety culture in high-speed railways and the importance of top management decisions

Bugalia, Nikhil; Maemura, Yu; Ozawa, Kazumasa - 2019

Safety is a central issue that challenges decision-makers during the planning and implementation of high-speed railways (HSR) and appropriate systems should be in place to ensure safe performance during operations. To contribute toward the capacity-building efforts in countries importing HSR...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254937

Development and introduction of the Risk-Sentience Auxiliary Framework (RSAF) as an enabler to the iso 31000 and iso 31010 for high-risk environments

Selvaseelan, Jerry - In: Administrative Sciences 8 (2018) 2, pp. 1-22

The aim of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a new auxiliary enterprise risk management framework and process to serve as an enabler to the global ISO 31000 risk framework and ISO 31010 processes. This framework has been designed particularly for use within high-risk...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012611978

Systematic peak-load pricing, congestion premia and demand diverting: Empirical evidence from airlines

Escobari, Diego - In: Economics Letters 103 (2009) 1, pp. 59-61

This paper finds empirical support to systematic peak-load pricing in airlines---higher fares in ex-ante known congested periods. It estimates a congestion premia and supports the main empirical prediction in Gale and Holmes (1993) [Gale, I., Holmes, T., 1993. Advance-purchase discounts and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396587

Airport privatization and international competition

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2010

improve welfare. The model consists of a downstream (airline) duopoly with two inputs landings at two airports) and two types … of consumers. The airline companies compete internationally. Using the simple international duopoly model, we show that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332275

Optimisation of flight movements in Europe: Possibilities for reducing the number of flight movements in Europe, taking the quality of the connections into account

Nollau, Alexander; Thießen, Friedrich - 2019

Many current problems in air traffic are related to the number of aircraft movements. Overcrowding in the airspace, difficult coordination at airports, high emissions of noise and pollutants as well as complexity of airlines are side effects of too many aircraft movements. This study examines...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984783