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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Operating decisions"”.
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Accruals and managerial operating decisions over the firm life cycle
… paper explores how accruals capture managerial operating decisions that evolve over a firm's life cycle. I argue that growing firms face different operating environments and have fundamentally different accruals properties than those of mature and declining firms. I provide evidence that …
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Essays on the effective integration of risk management with operations management decisions
… how risk management can be integrated with operating decisions so as to improve the firm value creating more wealth for the shareholders. In the first essay, we focus on capacity flexibility as a means of operational hedging for risk management in an MTO production environment under demand …
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Investment dynamics and the timeliness properties of accounting numbers
… and its outcomes (i.e. sales, earnings and operating cash flows) even in the absence of conservative accounting. In particular, I predict and find that firms are able to react more quickly to negative economic shocks (by cutting investment and employment) than to positive economic shocks …
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Three essays in applied microeconomics
… to the managers and make efficient trading decisions. The essay provides a justification for a real-world headquarters, who delegates all the operating decisions to the division managers but maintains the ultimate authority within the firm. The second essay examines how a client would …
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Applications of optimization to shale oil and gas monetization
… infrastructure investments and associated operating decisions are determined. The importance of incorporating uncertainty into the framework is demonstrated and the relationship between the stability of the stochastic solution and the variance of the distribution of future parameters is …
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Accounting for Variability and Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessments: Oil Sands Case Studies
… variability in terms of resource heterogeneity, operating decisions, as well as extraction and processing technologies affect a project’s GHG intensity. Previous LCAs that have quantified emissions from bitumen production and processing have not captured all sources of variability along the life …
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A Comparison of Perceptions of Selected Germanic Executives to Determine if Case-Study Analysis Education Affects Their Decision-Making Process
… to affect top-level executives in making operating decisions without favoring any of the twenty-two selected influences.</p><p>The term selected influences was adopted to represent the twenty-two inputs or variables that were selected as modifiers in the managerial decision-making process. …
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Modeling and Design of Material Separation Systems with Applications to Recycling
… use tailored economic metrics to evaluate decisions in the design of separation systems. The effects of operating decisions on an existing plastic container separating line are quantified by evaluating the additional profit from plastics-capture decisions. The second case study investigates …
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AHS Maglev System Architecture
… transportation planning, policy, investment and operating decisions have been made in isolation from each other with incomplete information inputs from a broad base of disciplines and sectors, without a synthesizing instrumentality. A new approach is described to promote the best informed …
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Integrated allocation and utilization of airport capacity to mitigate air traffic congestion
… the utilization of airport capacity to enhance operating efficiency at the tactical level (i.e., over each day of operations), and/or (ii) the allocation of airport capacity to the airlines to limit over-capacity scheduling at the strategic level (i.e., months in advance of the day of …