UN containers mean marketing flexibility and pollution protection for International Paints

1992 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 10-17
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Kumpanat Siriyota ◽  
Pratanporn Jhundra-indra ◽  
Kesinee Muenthaisong

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandla Adonisi ◽  
R. Van Wyk

The profound dynamic changes that the South African business environment is going through and the low level of business development in the country begs for entrepreneurial innovation. This paper is an investigation into the relationship of corporate entrepreneurship with the organizational variables of marketing, flexibility and job satisfaction. These relationships are investigated in a sample of 333 managers in three different industries in South Africa. The relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and biographic variables were examined by means of Spearman correlation. Pearson-product moment correlation explored the association between corporate entrepreneurship and the organizational variables. The empirical results show significant relationships with different market orientation, flexibility, and job satisfaction factors. We suggest that organizations should nurture their corporate entrepreneurial strategies by fostering its orientation towards marketing, flexibility and job satisfaction.


1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Harry A. Michael

Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) is an international energy corporation wholly owned by the Republic of Venezuela, whose principal areas of activity are petroleum, bitumen, natural gas, coal and petrochemicals. The steady expansion of PDVSA's NATURAL GAS INFRASTRUCTURE IN Venezuela and the strong performance of its subsidiaries, has contributed to increase its operational and marketing flexibility, thus allowing it to evolve from a simple exporter of crude oil and refined products to an important supplier of Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) to the world's major energy markets. In this respect Corpoven one of PDVSA's affiliated Companies has made considerable progress with the expansion of its Eastern Venezuela Cryogenic Complex. In 1994 it will produce an incremental volume of 45 thousand barrels per day of natural gas liquids from gas pipe in from northern Monagas region. Also, it has programmed the installation of two other Criogenic Plants in the next ten years, and as a result NGL exports are expected to increase from 175 thousand barrels day in 1994 to 232 thousand barrels day in 1998. Plans are also well underway for Venezuela to become a major exporter of LNG towards the turn of the century. More specifically, at the end of 1992, another PDVSA subsidiary, Lagoven, reached an agreement with Exxon, Shall and Mitsubishi to develop the Cristobal Colon LNG project, which calls for the exploitation of vast reserves of natural gas located in the Gulf of Paria, in northeastern Venezuela. The projected LNG production is in the order of 6 million tons per year.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgios C. Chasparis ◽  
Mario Pichler ◽  
Johanna Spreitzhofer ◽  
Tara Esterl

Abstract The constantly increasing electricity and energy demand in residential buildings, as well as the need for higher absorption rates of renewable sources of energy, demand for an increased flexibility at the end-users. This need is further reinforced by the rising numbers of residential Photovoltaic (PV) and battery-storage systems. In this case, flexibility can be viewed as the excess energy that can be charged to or discharged from a battery, in response to a group objective of several such battery-storage systems (aggregation). One such group objective considered in this paper includes marketing flexibility (charging or discharging) to the Day-ahead (DA) spot market, which can provide both a) financial incentives to the owners of such systems, and b) an increase in the overall absorption rates of renewable energy. The responsible agent for marketing and offering such flexibility, herein aggregator, is directly controlling the participating batteries, in exchange to some financial compensation of the owners of these batteries. In this paper, we present an optimization framework that allows the aggregator to optimally exchange the available flexibility to the DA market. The proposed scheme is based upon a reinforcement-learning approach, according to which the aggregator learns through time an optimal policy for bidding flexibility to the DA market. By design, the proposed scheme is flexible enough to accommodate the possibility of erroneous forecasts (of weather, load or electricity price). Finally, we evaluate our approach on real-world data collected from currently installed battery-storage systems in Upper Austria.


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