With the transformation of economic form from industrial economy into economy based on knowledge and the transformation of enterprise’s nature from “economic man” into “social-ecological-economic man”, enterprise’s sustainable growth becomes a more complex task. The objectives of the company should be derived by balancing the conflicting claims of the various 'stakeholders' in the firm, and max...

F iscal regime is one of the main differences between petroleum contracts. Fiscal regimes in oil contracts are divided to two main categories namely Concessionary and Contractual Systems. In contractual systems, the main difference between service and production sharing contracts is the way of compensation of contractor services which could be in cash or in kind. In production sharin...

This paper proposes a new motivation for information sharing in a decentralized channel consisting of a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer provides a common product to the retailers at the same wholesale price. Both retailers add their own values to the product and distribute it to consumers. Factors such as retail prices, values added to the product, and local ad...