Distributed manufacturing has been an important trend in the industrial field, in which the production cost can be reduced through the cooperation among factories. In the real production, the random job arrivals are regular for the enterprises with daily delivered production tasks. In the paper,...

As a zero-carbon technology, nuclear power is potentially useful to realize climatepolicyobjectives. It may however economically not be efficient to have such a typeof power plant in future electricity markets which are dominated by high shares ofrenewable generation. In this paper, we test this...

Purpose: To a large extent, the recent global instability is responsible for the rapid structural mutation of the career landscape, thereby affecting individuals' career development, especially expatriates who are subjected to an acculturation process. Even though the cultural element exists in...

Globally, governments increasingly rely on auctions to advance renewable energy. This paper studies the design of wind farm auctions and evaluates the impact of price guarantees and subsidies on auction efficiency, government revenue, and renewable-energy production. While the theoretical...