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Championing family business issues to influence public policy: Evidence from Australia

Craig, Justin B.; Moores, Ken - 2009

This paper proposes a strategy for the family firm sector to gain the attention of policy makers. The strategy builds … implemented and regulated. To achieve this, we suggest that the family business sector must achieve salience as a community … benefits that family firms can provide by suggesting the building and management of family firm resources to generate optimal …

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A Life Cycle Analysis System to Support D and D, Pollution Prevention, and Asset Recovery

Bishop, L.; Tonn, B.E.; Yuracko, K.L. - 2008

This paper describes a life cycle analysis system (LCAS) developed to support US Department of Energy (DOE) decision-making regarding deactivation and decommissioning (D and D), pollution prevention (P2), and asset recovery, and its deployment to analyze the disposition of facilities and capital...

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Roadmap for Development of Natural Gas Vehicle Fueling Infrastructructure and Analysis of Vehicular Natural Gas Consumption by Niche Sector

Stephen C. Yborra - 2008

Vehicular natural gas consumption is on the rise, totaling nearly 200 million GGEs in 2005, despite declines in total NGV inventory in recent years. This may be attributed to greater deployment of higher fuel use medium- and heavy-duty NGVs as compared to the low fuel use of the natural...

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Market disruption, cascading effects, and economic recovery:a life-cycle hypothesis model.

Sprigg, James A. - 2008

This paper builds upon previous work [Sprigg and Ehlen, 2004] by introducing a bond market into a model of production and employment. The previous paper described an economy in which households choose whether to enter the labor and product markets based on wages and prices. Firms experiment with...

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Determining Price Reasonableness in Federal ESPCs

Shonder, J.A. - 2008

This document reports the findings and implementation recommendations of the Price Reasonableness Working Group to the Federal ESPC Steering Committee. The working group was formed to address concerns of agencies and oversight organizations related to pricing and fair and reasonable price...

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Design Study and Cost Estimate for an Assurred Isolation Facility in Texas

Baird, R. D.; Rogers, B. C.; Chau, N.; Kerr, Thomas A - 2009

The optimized assured isolation facility (AIF) consists of waste shipping containers being placed inside steel-reinforced concrete overpacks, which are, in turn, placed in steel-reinforced concrete vaults without an earthen cover system. The concrete vaults are designed to remain in service for...

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Making Energy-Efficiency and Productivity Investments in Commercial Buildings: Choice of Investment Models

Jones, D.W. - 2008

This study examines the decision to invest in buildings and the types of investment decision rules that may be employed to inform the ''go--no go'' decision. There is a range of decision making tools available to help in investment choices, which range from simple rules of thumb such as payback...

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Novel strategies to overcome barriers to commercialisation of new technologies: a case study from the Australian biotechnology industry

Hine, Damian; Millen, Damien - 2006

The biotechnology industry is shifting its value creation emphasis from R&D to manufacturing and market. Business models need to keep pace with this evolution. This paper reports on a single-case study of a new biotechnology firm, EpiTan Limited, and the life cycle stages it has progressed...

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Gründungsprojekt und Lebensweg innovativer Dienstleistungsunternehmen: Projektorientierte Analyse und Gestaltungshinweise am Beispiel von Klein- und Mittelbetrieben der Beratungsbr...

Wiebusch, Jenny - 2006

This dissertation deals with the life cycle development of small and medium sized consulting companies.Within the scope of this life cycle development are especially four aspects in focus:The start up process, Innovation within the life cycle, change moments in the life cycle and use of project...

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Essays on the Economics of Happiness.

Gregoire Rousseau, Jean-Benoit - 2009

The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...

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