A real choice exists today on a number of discoveries between platform-based or subsea development solutions. Statistics from the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) show that fields developed with fixed platforms have a substantially higher recovery factor. The potential for a later commitment to...

Drilling expenses has increased sharply in recent years. The productivity of drilling operations - in terms of meters drilled per day - significantly influences exploration costs. This study analyzes the effect of different types of learning on offshore drilling productivity. The econometric...

What would be the effect of CO2 pricing on global oil supply and demand? This paper introduces a model describing the interaction between conventional and non-conventional oil supply in a Hotelling framework and under CO2 constraints. The model assumes that non-conventional crude oil enters the...

Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...

In practice, questions of ecological company policy deal much more with technical questions than with organisational ones. In many guides for the implementation of an Environmental Management System the development of the organisation that first has to grow into this new task has not yet been...

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

Whether HRM is perceived to be a ‘problem’ for smaller firms is explored in this paper usinglogistic regression. We analyse data from 523 responses to a survey of smaller firms in southeastMelbourne (Victoria, Australia), and consider the antecedents of a range of issues ofconcern reported...

Anhand von drei Fallstudien wurde im Projekt „Messung und Management der Material‐ undRessourceneffizienz in KMU mit dem Sustainable‐Value‐Ansatz (KMUSVA)“ die Anwendbarkeitdes Sustainable‐Value‐Ansatzes in KMU erprobt. Das Projekt wurde im Rahmen des...