Project-financing and public-private partnership schemes are joint projects of investment that are generally submitted to investment valuation criteria based on compound discounting. However, the theoretical basis of these criteria is at issue nowadays. According to recent studies on relational contracting economics and behavioral finance, joint projects of investment can be considered as speci...

Analysis of the impact of architecture model of cluster management on the strategy of its innovative and investment development, ongoing innovation activities, the growth of innovative capacity and effectiveness of development projects due to the appearance of architectural synergy. Key-Words: industrial cluster architecture, business architecture, IT architecture, cluster development projects,...

Large amounts of resources have been and continue to be invested in information technology (IT). Much of this investment is made on the basis of-faith that returns will occur. This study presents the results of an empirical test of the performance effects of IT investment in the manufacturing sector. Six years of historical data on IT investment and performance was collected for 33 valve manufa...

3 Conclusion 1.Smart metering projects are at risk of consumer rejection, and investment failure. 2.We have identified ways to reduce consumer’s privacy and choice concerns about data that is extracted and transmitted from a smart meter. 3.We have proposed a Smart Metering System Architecture and abstract data flow model that identifies security and privacy requirements to ensure consumer secur...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: R&D R&D investment Resource-based view Decision factors This study investigates the decision factors regarding R&D investment activities. The subjects in this empirical study are from the countries of Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, which are all similar in the level of regional economic development and technology manufacturing. The research samples consist of the fina...

Mobile manufacturing is an enabler to increase the possibility to change and to adapt to altering needs, where the geographical position is not fixed. The main idea with the mobile manufacturing concept is to easily and quickly reuse manufacturing capacities between different orders or projects. This paper examines the concept of mobile manufacturing system by addressing issues related to manuf...

In Brazil, Energy Market players dedicate many efforts in valuation and optimal allocation of capital decision to implement projects, due the large candidate projects number in their investment portfolios. The strategic decisions of those players should choose the projects subset that will be implemented, because usually, they don ́t have the financial resources to implement all then. Many are t...