This paper presents a simulation-based decision model for contract period determination in Energy Performance Contracting (EPC). The model attempts to assist the Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) on how long the contract period should be to balance the bidding competitiveness and the potential revenue loss. The uncertainties within the energy efficiency investment and the energy cost savings as ...

This study investigates how inspirational leadership and technology support for contextualization influence individuals’ psychological contract and knowledge sharing in distributed teams. Drawing on the intersection between social identity, psychological contract and leadership theories, the current research highlights the importance of inspirational leaders who foster two kinds of psychologica...

While achieving fruitful patents in innovation, enterprises can face bottlenecks industrial transformation. The fundamental cause of such difficulties is the lack pilot equipment. To this end, science and technology (S&T) innovation platform introduces equipment sharing to solve problems transforming enterprise patents. Based on premise that service demand endogenous effort user relationshi...

This study constructs a regulatory system for information sharing on industrial internet platforms from technical and socio-legal perspective. A differentiated game is used to construct decentralized, centralized, cost-sharing contract decision-making scenarios obtain the optimal level of efforts information-sharing regulation. Through comparative analysis, solutions under three were derived. T...

We investigate the effects of contract renegotiation in multi-agent situations where risk averse agents negotiate a contract offer to the principal after the agents observe a common, unverifiable perfect signal about their actions. We show that renegotiation with multiple agents reduces the cost of implementing any implementable action profile down to the first-best level, even though the princ...

Presented cloud computing billing model is designed for maximizing value-adding throughput of a multiuser parallel computing platform across a set of users of the platform. The model enables maximally demand driven computing capacity allocation while guaranteeing each user application its contract-based assured minimum capacity access level whenever actually demanded. The billing model thus fac...