Constatant qu’en gestion il est souvent fait référence au terme de vision et d’entreprise ou de dirigeant “ visionnaires ”, mais que paradoxalement il n’existe pas de définitions précises de ces termes, notre recherche se propose d’effectuer une analyse de la littérature portant...

La place des middle managers dans la démarche stratégique a souvent été soulignée par la littérature stratégique (Bower, 1970 ; Burgelman 1983 ; Mintzberg 1994, Laroche 1999). Cependant, rares sont les études ayant tenté d’approfondir les caractéristiques et les déterminants de leur...

On s’intéresse à la standardisation de composants partiellement substituables destinés à satisfaire un ensemble de besoins. L’approche monocritère de la standardisation proposée au siècle dernier est enrichie par une prise en compte explicite de plusieurs critères et d’une...

Les lancements de nouveaux produits sont en proie à des risques d’échec très importants. Et pourtant, la plupart des travaux en sciences de gestion ont un biais en faveur du succès. Les rares auteurs qui s’intéressent néanmoins à cette question adoptent généralement une position...

Bilateral contracts are important risk-hedging instruments constituting a major component in the portfolios held by many electric power market participants. However, bilateral contract negotiation is a complicated process because it involves risk management, strategic bargaining, and...

Open Source Software (OSS) expresses the idea that developers should be able to license the publication of their software in a manner permitting anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the software. Today OSS is widely used in the software industry, such as for language development tools...

Power systems have distinctive features that greatly complicate the development of auction designs. This study reviews the theory and practice of auction design as it relates specifically to U.S. restructured wholesale power markets, i.e., centrally-administered wholesale power markets with...

This study uses a dynamic 5-bus test case implemented via the AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed to investigate strategic capacity withholding by generation companies (GenCos) in restructured wholesale power markets under systematically varied demand conditions. The strategic behaviors of the...

In this tutorial paper, different AC and DC optimal power flow (OPF) models are presented to help understand the derivation of Locational Marginal Prices (LMPs) in restructured wholesale power markets. As a byproduct of this analysis, the paper provides a rigorous explanation of the basic LMP...

Wholesale power markets around the world are currently undergoing a controversial restructuring of their architecture and rules of operation. Some commentators have argued that restructuring has not produced the intended improvements in market efficiency while at the same time it has complicated...