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Reichling, Peter, and P. G. Pererva. "Choice of the criteria of efficiency of innovative solutions." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/40228.
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Васильцова, Світлана Олександрівна. "Формування та оцінювання портфеля реальних інноваційно-інвестиційних проектів на переробних підприємствах." Thesis, НТУ "ХПІ", 2012. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/35259.
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Дисертація на здобуття наукового ступеня кандидата економічних наук за спеціальністю 08.00.04 – економіка та управління підприємствами (за видами економічної діяльності). – Національний технічний університет «ХПІ», Харків, 2012. У дисертації обґрунтовано та розроблено засади формування портфеля інноваційно-інвестиційних проектів на підприємствах фармацевтичного профілю та поглиблено існуючі теоретико-методичні підходи до проведення інноваційної діяльності. Розроблено методичний інструментарій для розгляду проектних пропозицій, обчислення ефекту участі у проекті підприємства, організації та соціально-економічного ефекту проектів, що пропонуються. Укладено покрокові методичні рекомендації щодо підготовки формалізованої інформації, придатної для автоматизації процесів формування портфеля. Викладено вимоги до формування інноваційно-інвестиційного портфеля, надано рекомендації щодо створення його електронного профілю. Розроблено інструментарій для вибору ефективного портфеля проектів з використанням трьох компонент, який дозволить вирішувати задачі формування та оптимізації двох типів – для портфелів, склад яких не передбачає дискретних ризиків, та для портфелів, у складі яких наявні проекти з дискретними ризиками, зокрема з ризиком поразкового результату науково-дослідної діяльності, який спричиняє припинення проекту.Dissertation for the awarding of scientific degree of candidate of economic sciences of the specialty 08.00.04 – economy and management of enterprises (by the types of economic activity). – National Technical University «KPI», Kharkiv, 2012. The principles of forming the portfolio of innovative and investment projects on any pharmaceutical enterprises were grounded and developed, and an existent theoretical and methodical approaches for realization of innovative activities were developed in the dissertation. Some methodical tools for consideration of designed offers, for the estimation of an effect of enterprise participation in a project and general social and economic effect of offered projects were developed. The “step by step” methodological recommendations of preparation of the formalized information, suitable for automation of processes of forming a portfolio were determined. The standards to formation of an innovative and investment portfolio were described and the recommendations for the creation of its electronic profile were offered. The tool with use of three components to choose an efficient investment portfolio was developed. It will let to solve the two types problems of formation and optimization – for any portfolio which don’t include any discrete risks and for any portfolio which have projects with some discrete risks, related for instance with negative results of scientific and research activity which may lead to the project closure.
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Bylund, Jonas R. "Planning, Projects, Practice : A Human Geography of the Stockholm Local Investment Programme in Hammarby Sjöstad." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Human Geography, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-1021.
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Programmes and policies to support ecological sustainable development and the practice of implementation is a question of innovation rather than known and taken for granted procedure. This thesis argues a priori models concerning stability in the social sciences, and human geography especially, are less able to help us understand this practice and planning in such unstable situations. Problematic in common understandings of planning and policy implementation concerning sustainability are the dualisms between physical-social spaces and between rationality-contingency. The first dualism makes it hard to grasp the interaction between humans and nonhumans. The second dualism concerns the problem of how to capture change without resorting to reductionism and explanaining the evolving projects as either technically, economically, or culturally rational.
The scope of the thesis is to test resources from actor-network theory as a means of resolving these dualisms. The case is the Stockholm Local Investment Programme and the new district of Hammarby Sjöstad. The programme’s objective was to support the implemention of new technologies and systems, energy efficiency and reduced resource-use as well as eco-cycling measures. The case-study follows how the work with the programme unfolded and how administrators’ efforts to reach satisfactory results was approached. In doing this, the actors had to be far more creative than models of implementation and traditional technology diffusion seem to suggest. The recommendation is to take the instrumentalisation framing the plasticity of a project in planning seriously – as innovativeness is not a special but the general case. Hence, to broaden our tools and understanding of planning a human geography of planning projects is pertinent.
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Krčálová, Lucie. "Posouzení efektivnosti inovačního projektu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222612.
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Thesis treats of effectiveness of innovative plan of company HARTMANN – RICO. In forepart I introduce theoretical findings related to innovative strategy and planning investment activity. The second part applies to identification a company, its history, function, range of products and its results. In the next part I present line of products innovation, whose evaluate I make after that. In conclusion I propound my own analysis proposal.
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Rankinen, J.-A. (Juha-Antti). "Localization of multinational industrial investment projects." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201911203117.
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Abstract. Industrial investment projects are large undertakings that form a complex network of different stakeholders and organizations. Studies show that albeit the enormous research and effort given to these projects, a large number of them are considered failures on many measures, and often face considerable unforeseen complications and costs. More recent studies have asserted one cause for this to be the lack of local knowledge and misunderstanding the local project environment. This brings us to the topic of localization, or the efforts to manage the local context of projects. While the need for understanding the local context and localization has been showcased in literature a priori, in the context of industrial investment projects, the research is scattered, conceptual understanding of localization distributed, and definition of localization in the discourse vague.
The purpose of this study is to research what localization is in the context of multinational industrial investment projects. To support this purpose, the following research questions were chosen:
— How to define localization in the context of multinational industrial investment projects?
— What are the key elements of localization in multinational industrial investment projects?
— What are the key objectives of localization in multinational industrial investment projects?
To expand the conceptualization of localization in the context of industrial investment projects and to answer these research questions, literature review and empirical research were conducted. The literature review constructs a theoretical foundation for localization and forms a basis for empirical research. Empirical research was conducted to expand literature findings and to identify the key elements of localization. Combining the findings of literature review and empirical research, localization was defined, and its key objectives described. Localization was defined as “the management of activities carried out to establish an understanding of the local context and its pressures on industrial investment project, with an objective of decreasing uncertainty and identifying opportunities, and the means how these objectives will be accomplished.”
The key elements of localization are the most important elements to be considered in managing multinational industrial investment projects. Eighteen key elements were identified from the vast spectrum of local elements found in case interviews.
The key objective of localization is to support the existing processes of the multinational industrial investment project. Localization was found not to be an independent process, but rather a tool or method to support stages of the industrial investment project. Key objectives and activities of localization are presented for each stage of industrial investment project.
The findings of this study expand the knowledge on the localization of multinational industrial projects by defining the localization, describing its elements, identifying the key elements of localization in industrial investment projects, and examining the key objectives of localization in the given context. This study contributes to the literature by defining and describing the localization of multinational industrial investment projects and gives managerial implications on how localization should be approached in practice of managing multinational industrial investment projects.Monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien lokalisointi. Tiivistelmä. Teolliset investointiprojektit ovat suuria hankkeita, jotka muodostavat monitahoisen sidosryhmäverkoston. Huolimatta tutkimuksen runsaudesta ja hankkeisiin panostuksesta, tilastot ja aikaisemmat tutkimukset osoittavat, että useat suuret teolliset investointiprojektit epäonnistuvat monilla tehokkuuden mittareilla, ja kohtaavat odottamattomia ongelmia ja kustannusylityksiä. Viimeaikainen tutkimus on osoittanut vähäisen projektiympäristön paikallisuuden tuntemuksen olevan yksi juurisyy näihin ongelmiin. Paikallisen kontekstin hallinnalla, eli lokalisaatiolla, pyritään selittämään ja ratkaisemaan näitä ongelmia. Vaikka paikallisen kontekstin hallinnan merkitystä ja lokalisaatiota on tutkittu aiemmin, on monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien kontekstissa aiempi tutkimus hajanaista, konseptuaalinen ymmärrys epäselvää sekä määrittelemätöntä.
Tämän tutkimuksen tavoite on selittää, mitä lokalisointi on monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien yhteydessä. Tukeakseen tätä tavoitetta, tutkimuskysymyksiksi valittiin seuraavat:
— Kuinka määritellä lokalisaatio monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien yhteydessä?
— Mitkä ovat lokalisaation keskeiset osatekijät monikansallisissa teollisissa investointiprojekteissa?
— Mitkä ovat lokalisaation keskeiset tavoitteet monikansallisissa teollisissa investointiprojekteissa?
Laajentaakseen lokalisaation käsitteellistämistä teollisten investointiprojektien yhteydessä ja vastatakseen näihin tutkimuskysymyksiin, kirjallisuuskatsaus ja empiirinen tutkimus suoritettiin. Kirjallisuuskatsaus muodostaa teoreettisen perustan lokalisaatiolle ja luo pohjan empiiriselle tutkimukselle. Empiirinen tutkimus suoritettiin laajentaakseen kirjallisuuden tutkimustuloksia ja tunnistaakseen lokalisaation keskeiset osatekijät monikansallisissa teollisissa investointiprojekteissa. Yhdistämällä aikaisemman kirjallisuuden tutkimustuloksia empiirisen tutkimuksen kanssa, määritelmä lokalisaatiolle luotiin ja lokalisaation keskeiset tavoitteet tunnistettiin. Lokalisaatio määriteltiin seuraavasti: ”niiden toimenpiteiden hallinta, joilla luodaan ymmärrys paikallisesta kontekstista ja sen vaikutuksista teolliseen investointiprojektiin, ja minkä tavoitteena on pyrkiä vähentämään epävarmuutta ja tunnistamaan mahdollisuudet, sekä menettelytavat, joilla nämä tavoitteet saavutetaan”.
Lokalisaation keskeiset osatekijät ovat tärkeimpiä osatekijöitä ottaa huomioon monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien hallinnassa. Kahdeksantoista keskeisintä lokalisaation osatekijää tunnistettiin empiirisessä tutkimuksessa järjestetyistä haastatteluista. Lokalisaation keskeinen tavoite on tukea monikansallisen teollisen investointiprojektien eri vaiheita. Lokalisaatio ei ole itsenäinen prosessi, vaan ennemminkin menetelmä tai ajatusmaailma, joka tukee teollisen investointiprojektin eri vaiheita. Lokalisaation keskeiset tavoitteet esitettiin investointiprojektin eri vaiheissa.
Tämän tutkimuksen tulokset laajentavat käsitystä monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien lokalisoinnista määrittelemällä lokalisaatiota, kuvaamalla sen osatekijöitä, tunnistamalla teollisen investointiprojektin lokalisaation keskeiset osatekijät ja määrittelemällä lokalisaation keskeiset tavoitteet teollisissa investointiprojekteissa. Tämä tutkielma laajentaa käsitystä lokalisaatiosta määrittelemällä ja kuvaamalla sitä teollisten investointiprojektien kontekstissa ja antaa suosituksia, kuinka lokalisaatiota tulisi käsitellä monikansallisten teollisten investointiprojektien johtamisessa.—
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PAIXAO, JOAO DIOGO LESSA DE M. E. S. "CROWDFUNDING AS A SOLUTION TO ENABLE INNOVATIVE PROJECTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34889@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRODesafios diversos são colocados para os empreendedores atingirem o seu mercado consumidor. O financiamento de projetos é um dos mais sensíveis, visto a escassez e custo de capital. Com o avanço recente da tecnologia, novas iniciativas se propõem a estreitar esta relação e viabilizar negócios. O financiamento colaborativo por meio de crowdfunding se apresenta como solução a ser explorada neste estudo e o conceito e adoção da inovação é analisado como fator diferencial no alcance dos fundos necessários em conjunto com demais fatores motivacionais que balizam a decisão de apoio aos projetos. A prática é recente no Brasil, justificando a existência de poucos estudos. A Metodologia de Pesquisa prevê a aplicação de modelo de regressão logística, que é capaz de prever a probabilidade de que o projeto alcance sua meta em função de um conjunto de variáveis independentes. Por fim, a aplicação do modelo permitiu concluir que dentre as métricas avaliadas as que favorecem o sucesso são o tipo do projeto ser tudo ou nada, o número de apoiadores, o valor médio doado e pertencer ao grupo pessoa. Em contrapartida, sinalizou que as variáveis inovação, artes, empreendedor e social não influenciam a probabilidade de o projeto alcançar sua meta.
Multiple challenges are placed for entrepreneurs to reach their consumer market. Project finance is one of the most sensitive, given the scarcity and cost of capital. With the recent advancement of technology, new initiatives aim to strengthen this relationship and make business viable. Collaborative funding through crowdfunding presents itself as a solution to be explored in this study and the concept and adoption of innovation is analyzed as a differential factor in the reach of the necessary funds together with other motivational factors that guide the decision to support the projects. The practice is recent in Brazil, justifying the existence of few studies. The Research Methodology provides for the application of a logistic regression model, which is able to predict the probability that the project will achieve its goal in function of a set of independent variables. Finally, the application of the model allowed us to conclude that among the evaluated metrics the ones that favor success are the type of project to be all or nothing, the number of supporters, the average value donated and belong to the personal group. On the other hand, it pointed out that the variables innovation, arts, entrepreneurship and social do not influence the probability of the project reaching its goal.
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Ahmad, Khalis Abdul Rahman. "Time underestimation in innovative educational projects in Iraq." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1990. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018421/.
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Time is a highly significant element in the complex process of educational change. It bears on all the components of innovative projects. It influences decisions to embark on a particular change model or a strategy. And ultimately time affects adoption decisions. But in spite of such significance, world-wide experience of introducing innovative programmes shows frequent occurrence of time underestimation. This study attempts to explain the reasons behind the phenomenon of time underestimation in educational change. In the context of the Iraqi educational system, it appears that there are a number of reasons behind time underestimation in planning and implementing innovations. These can be grouped under two categories: economic and non-economic. The former explains the underestimation of time as a deliberate effort made by people in order to reduce the apparent cost of a lengthy process. The latter interprets the phenomenon by organizational, structural, or psychological factors. These include incomplete and weak situational analysis prior to introducing innovative projects, lack of coordination pertaining to prevalent work modes, predominance of a top-down change model the outcome of which is the absence of a feeling of ownership, lack of skilled and well-trained personnel, lack of clear-cut objectives and distinct features of projects, lack of dependable criteria for estimating the cost of projects, fear of accountability on the part of both the planners and the implementing bodies, lack of systematic and well-timed evaluation, and lack of interest or poor motivation. Currently, economic considerations of time in the education sector are gaining ascendency. The opportunity cost of time makes a strong case for an efficient utilization pattern of behaviour pertaining to time. And it appears imperative to base time estimation primarily on the cost that this entails.
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Uvarova, Ganna Shevketivna. "Innovative projects in tourist air transportations in Ukraine." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/43601.
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The current state and opportunities of innovative projects are analysed in relation to air tourist transportations in Ukraine; projects strengths, weaknesses, possibilities and results of their implementation are described.
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Bukhkalo, S. I., and A. O. Ageicheva. "Complex projects development problems." Thesis, National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", 2019. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/41490.
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Qin, Han, and 覃涵. "Strategic investment of greentech projects in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206685.
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With the implementation of the pilot Emission Trading Schemes (ETSs) in China since 2013, there emerges a new opportunity for investing in Chinese green technology (greentech) projects. Apart from trading the international CERs (Certified Emissions Reductions), investors nowadays can also trade the CCERs (Chinese Certified Emissions Reductions) in the domestic carbon market. However, the pricing of CCERs is different from that of CERs due to the distinct climate policies in China, thus making the investment decisions in Chinese greentech projects a complicated problem. This study is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to evaluate greentech projects under uncertain climate policies in developing countries like China.
To identify the investment environment of Chinese greentech projects, a qualitative research on the development of climate policies and greentech market is first conducted. Based on the study of international climate polices and carbon markets, the pricing mechanisms of carbon assets (carbon allowances and carbon offsets) are investigated. Furthermore, China’s climate polices, including the energy policies and emission reduction policies, are analysed in detail. In addition, both the administrative and economic instruments used in China’s climate policies are investigated. Then, business opportunities and challenges in greentech market are investigated. It is shown that there is substantial demand for greentech projects, and the uncertainties embedded a Chinese greentech project in power sector mainly come from the CCER price and electricity price.
To integrate the different stochastic price processes, a real-options-based greentech investment (ROGI) model is developed to derive the investment options value and the optimal investment timing. Considering the possible interventions of the government, the CCER price is modelled as mean-reverting process with jump and cap-floor. In addition, an equivalent electricity price is developed and also described by a mean-reverting process. To solve the ROGI model with various uncertainties involved, a least-square Monte Carlo (LSM) approach is developed. The proposed LSM algorithm is built within the dynamic programming framework. It is shown that the optimal investment strategy can be characterized by a continuation region.
The proposed ROGI model is verified by a real case of wind power project investment in China. Sensitive analysis is conducted to examine the effects of the model parameters on the investment decisions. Different climate policy scenarios are then tested, including carbon price jump, carbon price cap and floor, and carbon tax. Several interesting findings are concluded from the results analysis in this study. First, it is found that investors are relatively insensitive to the jump in the CCER price, the volatility of the CCER price, or the mean-reverting speed. Second, the CCER price floor set by the government can effectively encourage greentech investments while the price cap is not a major concern of investors. Finally, the long-term growth rate of the CCER price as well as the carbon tax rate can also plays a significant role in investment decisions.published_or_final_version
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Ho, Kwong-Meng. "Evaluation of global container port investment projects." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2000. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/31855.
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In the past, the main sources of government funding or borrowing for seaport developments in developing and less developed countries were international funding agencies, such as the World Bank, the European Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the African Development Bank. In the last ten years, privatisation through Joint Ventures (JV) or Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Concessions has emerged as the main sources of finance. Examples of these are the privatisation programmes in Malaysia, India and China. Within the last decade, industrialised countries such as the United Kingdom and Netherlands have also placed great emphasis on enhancing the efficiency and productivity of their seaports by privatisation. Private seaport operators are emerging to invest in foreign seaport projects.
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Kobiletska, L. "Problems of international investment in risky projects." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/49049.
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As many years ago successful international companies continue to be interested in growth prospects. But modern era of information innovations and economic globalization dictates the new modes of thinking, new modes of running business, new proposals and new unexpected projects. As an example, there is a huge gamble of the world’s car companies, which are betting on the surge in sales of super-luxury vehicles.
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Меренкова, Ольга Віталіївна, Ольга Витальевна Меренкова, and Olga Vitaliivna Merenkova. "Розвиток інвестування банками інноваційних технологій обслуговування клієнтів." Thesis, Українська академія банківської справи Національного банку України, 2009. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/51610.
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Such moments were developed in the work as the probabilistic approach and approach on the basis of fuzzy logic methods for discrete and interval estimation of financial result from investment projects realization concerning the introduction of innovative technologies of serving clients; such projects risk level interval-integrative estimation realization mechanism on the basis of baeyes’s analysis; the procedure of accounting the client-oriented innovations by a bank at determination of its rating position on the investment market. It was grounded, that in case of bank venture fi-nancing principally new innovative products there was a specific concerning probabil-ity distributing of the investment decision support and the mechanism of its accounting in the estimation of such projects financial result. It was determined functional de-pendence the investment project financial result from introduction of serving bank clients innovative technologies from the risk level and speed of change profitable-ness, and limited terms of such investing expedience. Additional financial streams which appear in a bank as a result of introduction new client-oriented banking tech-nologies, it was offered to determine as difference between bank input financial stream after introduction of these technologies and bank initial financial stream be-fore introduction of these technologies, the mechanism of calculation each of them.У роботі розроблено імовірнісний підхід і підхід на основі методів нечіткої логіки відповідно для дискретної та інтервальної оцінки фінансового результату від реалізації інвестиційних проектів з впровадження інноваційних технологій обслуговування клієнтів; механізм здійснення інтервально-інтегральної оцінки рівня ризику таких проектів на основі байєсівського аналізу; процедуру врахування здійснюваних банком клієнтоорієнтованих інновацій при визначенні його рейтингової позиції на інвестиційному ринку. Обґрунтовано, що при венчурному фінансуванні банком піонерних, принципово нових інноваційних продуктів виникає специфіка щодо розподілу імовірності прийняття інвестиційного рішення та запропоновано механізм її врахування при оцінці ефективності таких проектів. Визначено функціональну залежність фінансового результату інвестиційного проекту з впровадження інноваційних технологій обслуговування клієнтів банку від рівня ризику і швидкості зміни дохідності та граничні умови доцільності такого інвестування. Додаткові фінансові потоки, що утворюються в банку внаслідок впровадження нових технологій клієнтоорієнтованого банкінгу, запропоновано визначати як різницю вхідного фінансового потоку банку після впровадження цих технологій і вихідного фінансового потоку банку до впровадження цих технологій, запропоновано механізм розрахунку кожного з них.
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Delgado, Octavio Augusto Herandez. "Decision making for the selection of investment projects." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263392.
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Pauna, T. (Tommi). "Stakeholder organization model for collaborative industrial investment projects." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201908032736.
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Abstract. Industrial investment projects are carried out in complex networks of different organizations. Therefore, resources and competencies from different organizations have to be integrated to the project. Success statistics of large investment projects are quite weak when they are evaluated with traditional quality, cost and time indicators. Especially management of complex networks and integration of different stakeholders cause challenges. In the literature, it has been noted that team integration, collaboration and better management of inter-organizational integration can improve project performance. In industrial investment project context, there is a lack of knowledge about which stakeholders should be involved in collaboration and how deeply and in which project phases.
The purpose of the study is to construct a model that defines different levels of collaboration and supports in organizing stakeholders on these levels. In addition, the model should define that how deeply different levels are involved and what collaborative methods and tools they use. In the beginning of the research, literature related to inter-organizational integration, stakeholder management and level of collaboration are presented. Empirical research was conducted by observations in the case project and in a workshop that was arranged for industrial experts.
In complex projects with a lot of uncertainty and equivocality, important stakeholders should be involved early in the project. Early involvement, socialization, joint discussions and mutual collaboration can support the achievement of goals and help improve project performance. Stakeholders’ importance can be defined according to their roles and responsibilities in the project, their competencies, information and interests related to the project and the level they can affect the project. Important stakeholders of the case project had a central role in the project and they had competencies that were useful for the project design and scheduling. According to the literature review and empirical analysis, the stakeholder organization model is constructed and its use defined.
Stakeholder organization model includes five phases:
— Defining the project objectives and overall need for collaboration
— Stakeholder identification
— Evaluation of stakeholder importance
— Stakeholder organization on different levels of collaboration
— Defining appropriate integration mechanisms and collaborative methods and tools for each level
There were no guidelines for organizing stakeholders on different levels in industrial investment project context. The model of this study can be used for defining need for collaboration and important stakeholders, organizing stakeholders on different levels and definition of which collaborative methods and tools could be introduced in the project and how different levels should use them. The results can be utilized in collaborative investment projects but utility of the model should be validated in different industrial projects. Stakeholder levels and requirements for the use of collaborative methods and tools should be tested and adjusted if needed.Sidosryhmien organisointimalli yhteistoiminnallisiin teollisiin investointiprojekteihin. Tiivistelmä. Teolliset investointiprojektit toteutetaan erilaisten organisaatioiden verkostoissa. Siksi resursseja ja kompetensseja erilaisilta organisaatioilta tulee integroida mukaan projektiin. Suurten investointiprojektien onnistumistilastot ovat melko heikkoja, kun niitä arvioidaan perinteisillä laatu-, kustannus- ja aikaindikaattoreilla. Erityisesti kompleksisten verkostojen hallinta ja erilaisten sidosryhmien integrointi aiheuttavat haasteita. Kirjallisuudessa on huomattu, että tiimin integraatio, yhteistoiminnallisuus ja parempi organisaatioiden välisen integraation hallinta voivat parantaa suorituskykyä. Teollisten investointiprojektien tapauksessa ei tiedetä, mitkä sidosryhmät tulisi osallistaa yhteistoimintaan, kuinka tiiviisti ja missä projektin vaiheissa.
Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoitus on konstruoida malli, joka määrittää erilaiset yhteistoiminnallisuuden tasot ja tukee sidosryhmien organisointia näille tasoille. Lisäksi mallin avulla voidaan määritellä kuinka tiiviisti erilaiset tasot osallistuvat ja mitä yhteistoiminnallisia menetelmiä ja työkaluja ne käyttävät. Tutkimuksen aluksi esitellään kirjallisuutta organisaatioiden väliseen integraatioon, sidosryhmien johtamiseen ja yhteistoiminnallisuuden tasoihin liittyen. Empiirinen tutkimus suoritettiin havainnointitutkimuksena case-projektissa ja työpajana, joka järjestettiin teollisuuden asiantuntijoille.
Kompleksisissa projekteissa, joissa on paljon epävarmuutta ja tulkinnanvaraisuutta, tärkeät sidosryhmät tulisi osallistaa projektiin varhaisessa vaiheessa. Varhainen osallistaminen, sosialisointi, yhteiset keskustelut ja keskinäinen yhteistoiminta voivat tukea tavoitteiden saavuttamista ja auttaa parantamaan projektin suorituskykyä. Sidosryhmien tärkeys voidaan määritellä, niiden roolien ja vastuiden, projektiin liittyvien kompetenssien, informaation ja kiinnostuksen ja sen kuinka paljon ne voivat vaikuttaa projektiin, perusteella. Case-projektin tärkeillä sidosryhmillä oli keskeinen rooli projektissa ja kokemusta ja osaamista, jotka olivat hyödyllisiä projektin suunnitteluun ja aikataulutukseen. Sidosryhmien organisointimalli on konstruoitu ja sen käyttö määritelty kirjallisuuskatsauksen ja empiirisen analyysin perusteella.
Sidosryhmien organisointimalli sisältää viisi vaihetta:
— Määritellään projektin tavoitteet ja yhteistoiminnallisuuden kokonaistarve
— Tunnistetaan sidosryhmät
— Arvioidaan sidosryhmien tärkeys
— Organisoidaan sidosryhmät erilaisille yhteistoiminnallisuuden tasoille
— Määritellään sopivat integraatiomekanismit ja yhteistoiminnalliset menetelmät ja työkalut jokaiselle tasolle
Teollisille investointiprojekteille ei ollut olemassa ohjeita siitä, miten sidosryhmät tulisi organisoida erilaisille tasoille. Tämän tutkimuksen mallia voidaan käyttää määriteltäessä yhteistoiminnallisuuden tarvetta ja tärkeitä sidosryhmiä, sidosryhmien organisoinnissa eri tasoille ja määrittelyssä siitä mitä yhteistoiminnallisia menetelmiä ja työkaluja voitaisiin ottaa käyttöön projektissa ja kuinka erilaisten tasojen tulisi käyttää niitä. Tutkimustuloksia voidaan käyttää yhteistoiminnallisissa investointiprojekteissa mutta mallin käytettävyys tulisi validoida erilaisissa investointiprojekteissa. Sidosryhmien tasot ja yhteistoiminnallisten menetelmien ja työkalujen käytön vaatimukset pitäisi testata ja hienosäätää tarvittaessa.
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BRANCO, ROBERTA AVILA DE ULHOA CASTELLO. "FOLLOWING-UP ON ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5341@1.
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A fim de garantir a sobrevivência, as companhias
industriais constantemente geram novas idéias, que são
transformadas em projetos de investimento voltados a
ampliações ou instalações de novos equipamentos ou
unidades. Cada decisão de investimento tem sua
lucratividade econômica averiguada através de indicadores
calculados com base nas estimativas e projeções
realizadas,
que sempre apresentam desvios com relação ao observado
durante a implantação ou operação do projeto. A vida
futura
do projeto também apresentará novas expectativas, pois
a empresa vai atualizando seus cenários à medida que o
tempo passa. Este trabalho mostra que é possível
acompanhar
a lucratividade econômica de um projeto desde o momento
da
sua aprovação e que é viável verificar a influências
de diversos fatores na variação verificada de
lucratividade
econômica. Este acompanhamento contribui fundamentalmente
para o aprendizado organizacional.In order to guarantee survival, industrial companies are always generating new ideas that are transformed into investment projects aiming at upgrading or installing new equipment or units. The profitability of each investment is assessed using indicators calculated based on previous estimates and forecasts that always present biases in relation to the observed during project implementation or operation. The future life of a project also presents new expectations since the company keeps updating its scenarios in time. This dissertation shows that it is possible to follow-up on the profitability of a project as soon as it is approved and that it is feasible to check the influences of many factors on the estimated profitability variation. This follow-up is a major contributor to organizational learning.
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Błaszczuk, Krzysztof (Krzysztof Aleksander). "Investment opportunities in green technology real estate projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72882.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41).
The real estate sector accounts for more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and potentially provides great opportunity for carbon reduction. Energy efficient and green buildings have a huge potential in transforming the property sector, and investors could benefit from that transformation through the greening of their real estate holdings and investing in green technology real estate developments. My work will further define this opportunity by investigating the real estate industry's relationship to sustainability and global greenhouse gas emissions through perspective of energy markets, demographical changes and different technologies in the energy efficiency sphere. Additionally my thesis will provide summary of research regarding willingness to pay for efficiency and sustainability measures both in the residential and commercial part of the market. Finally I will analyze main factors affecting demand and forces shaping investment opportunity.
by Krzysztof Błaszczuk.
S.M.
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Aydın, Cevat Onur. "Sequential investment planning for complex oil development projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43051.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-90).
In this thesis, we consider sequential real investment decisions for the development of discovered oil prospects. Following a decision analysis approach, we propose a methodology to explore the upside of a dynamic drilling strategy, where there is a significant uncertainty about the reservoir complexity. We introduce the notion of information lag, whereby the decision-maker receives the information with a certain delay after each drilling is completed. In an illustrative case study, we apply our proposed methodology on a single reservoir to characterize the value of flexibility and to describe the relative impact of the information lags, in the context of an extensive drilling plan. We also provide several extensions of this case study in order to show how this methodology would be extended in a more comprehensive decision framework. Topics include choosing the optimal production capacity, valuing an initial test opportunity, and developing a field with multiple reservoirs. Our results indicate that flexible thinking may be a significant source of value to the projects. However, the incremental value might be over-rated if information lags are not appropriately included in the analysis.
by Cevat Onur Aydın.
S.M.
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Gluszak, Michal. "Land acquisition in development projects: investment value and risks." Institut für Regional- und Umweltwirtschaft, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2008. http://epub.wu.ac.at/980/1/document.pdf.
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The aim of the article is to discuss the main problems in land-development activity. The study focuses on land acquisition problem. In the article we describe possible implications of difference between real estate market and investment value, and enumerate major sources of investment risk. (author´s abstract)Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Маценко, Олександр Михайлович, Александр Михайлович Маценко, Oleksandr Mykhailovych Matsenko, and M. V. Il'yashenko. "Investment projects as a basis of sustainable economic development." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2007. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8348.
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Reproduction or reinvestment is the integral element of sustainable development of modern
economy. There is a set of theories for the description of this process, but full understanding of
development mechanisms of a separate branch or national economy as a whole does not exist.
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Jaguli, Abd. "Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and local innovative capacity." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9082.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of various channels of technology spillovers on local innovative capacity at national and firm level. At national level, the thesis investigates the drivers of Malaysia‟s innovative capacity and the effect of international external sources on innovative capacity. At firm level, this thesis examines the impact of FDI on the innovation progress and studies whether multinational corporations (MNCs) can act as catalysts to stimulate local firms‟ innovation activities in Malaysia. Via a case study analysis at firm level, this thesis focuses on knowledge transfer through backward linkages established between MNCs and their local suppliers. Time series data analysis is conducted to provide empirical evidence of the effect of FDI spillovers on Malaysia‟s innovative capacity at national level. Additionally, a case-study approach is adopted to investigate the impact of vertical FDI spillovers on the innovation performance of local Malaysian firms. The key findings of the study reveal that export-related spillovers are positively associated with Malaysia‟s innovative capacity, whereas importrelated spillovers play a minor role in local innovation. The findings also indicate that there is no significant correlation between economic development and local innovation, which suggests that strong economic growth is not a necessary condition in order for Malaysia to enhance its local innovative capacity. The results suggest that there is strong evidence of the importance of foreign innovation activities to local innovative capacity at national level. In contrast, knowledge spillovers measured by FDI inflows have no significant impact on local innovative capacity. The results showed that FDI might be constrained by the fact that spillovers are more likely to take place through vertical relationships than horizontal relationships. At firm level, the study suggests that knowledge and technology can be diffused through high-quality and standard requirements imposed by MNCs, the assessment and feedback and training programmes offered by MNCs to local suppliers, as well as the production process itself. These results extend ii the existing literature on national innovative capacity and validate earlier theoretical and empirical research on vertical spillovers. The findings from the thesis also have important policy and managerial implications with regard to the impact of FDI on host developing countries.
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Chen, Jia Jin. "Investment strategy for redevelopment projects under uncertainty : real options approach." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1637046.
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Pérez-Lavaud, Leopoldo. "Financing low income housing projects through debt conversion in investment." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45713.
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Gratwick, Katharine Nawaal. "Independent power projects in Africa : balancing development and investment outcomes." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19641.
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Includes bibliographic references.In the early 1990s, a new model emerged for the provision of electricity generation across developing regions. The model involved private sector participation in the form of independent power projects (IPP). Driving this change in business was insufficient public finance from host country governments, a reduction in concessionary loans from multilateral and bilateral development institutions, and a push for improved efficiency in a state-owned utility sector that was considered to be underperforming. This dissertation reviews how IPPs developed across both North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis focuses on the extent to which positive development outcomes (viz. reliable and affordable power) and investment outcomes (viz. favourable investment returns and the opportunity to grow investments) were both achieved. The dissertation posits that balancing development and investment outcomes leads to greater sustainability for projects. It further explores a range of elements that contribute to the success of projects, namely: the investment climate; policy, regulatory and planning frameworks; competitive procurement practices; availability of competitively procured fuel; favourable debt and equity arrangements, including new trends in the nature of IPP firms and credit enhancement arrangements; and new risk management techniques. In-depth case studies of IPP experiences in Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania are used to explore the question of balancing outcomes and sustainability. Reviews of IPP experiences in Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia also supplement the analysis together with an evaluation of the foreign direct investment context and related theory. Framing the whole discussion is an examination of how the new model for electric power provision evolved and how power sector reform models need to be adjusted to better reflect the reality in developing countries and emerging economies.
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Колосок, Світлана Іванівна, Светлана Ивановна Колосок, Svitlana Ivanivna Kolosok, Юлія Олександрівна Мирошниченко, Юлия Александровна Мирошниченко, Yuliia Oleksandrivna Myroshnychenko, Юлiя Тагiбекiвна Матвєєва, Юлия Тагибековна Матвеева, Yuliia Tahibekivna Matvieieva, and D. Hryhorenko. "Investment management for smart grid projects: a cross-country assessment." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/81027.
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Матеріал присвячено питанням управління інвестиціями для проектів інтелектуальної мережі.Материал посвящен вопросам управления инвестициями для проектов интеллектуальной сети.
The material is devoted to investment management issues for smart grid projects.
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Weissmann, Dietmar E. A. "Innovative mobility solutions disrupting conventional investment paradigms in real estate." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120648.
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Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-65).
One might argue real estate is entering a period where technological innovations have greater impact on investment returns than conventional metrics related to the overall economy. While this has already been demonstrated by e-commerce disrupting the retail and logistics landscape, industry leaders are now starting to become more and more attentive to mobility related implications, resulting from the recent advent of ride-hailing providers like Uber, Lyft, and Didi. Broad literature, generated over the past decades and applying widely recognized econometric concepts, emphasizes the significance of public transport access for residential real estate values. More recently, claims arose that the value of proximity to public transport is being challenged by ride-hailing, serving as a substitute for rail and bus services. While the existence of a certain substitution effect is supported and documented by academic studies, research about its impact on real estate is rare. This thesis analyzes the value change of public transport access over time, by applying a hedonic regression model to a sample of 257,100 residential real estate transactions which have taken place in New York City between January 2005 and June 2018. The distance between each individual home and the closest of 550 heavy rail transit stops is used to determine the value of proximity to public transport in these transactions. Contrary to anecdotal claims and economic theory, the results of this analysis suggest that the value of proximity, i.e. rent gradients towards heavy rail transit stops, increases over the observed time period, especially since the emergence of Uber and within walking distance (0.5 miles) from transit access points. Since mobility innovation's long-term effects might not be in line with short-term implications and notable regional variances might exist, the thesis recommends ongoing analysis of the subject matter and expanding the research from New York City to various markets with different urban shapes, transportation modes, and demographics.
by Dietmar E.A. Weissmann.
S.M. in Real Estate Development
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Lau, Kon-sau, and 劉幹修. "Characteristics of Hong Kong industrial companies undertaking innovative projects having strategic importance." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1992. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265418.
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Lau, Kon-sau. "Characteristics of Hong Kong industrial companies undertaking innovative projects having strategic importance /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13302589.
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Brown, John Edward Stuart. "The impact of financing constraints on investment." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1999. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2637/.
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This thesis is an empirical and theoretical analysis of the impact of financing constraints on firm-level investment behaviour. Its primary objectives are to model this impact, and to test the restrictions these models place on the data. Chapter 1 contains a discussion of these themes, and provides an overview of the thesis. Chapter 2 addresses the empirical question of whether innovative firms are financially constrained. To answer this question, several structural investment equations are tested, and the sensitivity of physical investment expenditures to internal finance is compared across innovative and non-innovative firms. The investment expenditures of innovative firms are found to be more sensitive to cash flow than those of non-innovative firms. These results support the hypothesis that innovative firms are financially constrained. The third chapter builds a theoretical model to explain a widely reported fact in the inventory literature, which is that the variance of production exceeds the variance of sales. This fact contradicts a prediction of the standard Linear-Quadratic model of inventory investment, and for this reason is often referred to as the "excess variance of production" puzzle. In this chapter, a model of inventory investment is built. It is shown that when financing constraints are imposed on the model, it can explain the excess variance of production puzzle. In the absence of these constraints, the model does not deliver this result. The fourth chapter returns to the theme of identifying financially constrained firms. A weakness of existing tests of financing constraints is that they are not both direct and structural. This chapter addresses that criticism by constructing a model of investment from which is derived a simple and direct, structural test of the null hypothesis that a group of firms is financially constrained. The test is implemented on a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. The results support the findings of existing tests.
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Murphey, A. D. "An investment framework for information technology projects in medium sized organisations." Thesis, University of Salford, 1996. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14835/.
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As computers absorb an ever-increasing proportion of corporate resources, and spread into every sphere of business activity, the issue of achieving benefits from investments in information technology (IT) is assuming major importance. Research evidence to hand suggests that IT investments are failing by orders of magnitude to provide appropriate levels of payback. A major part of the difficulty lies in the fact that management appears to lack a framework or even a language for addressing the issues, and are bewildered by the speed and impact of the changes that are taking place. This is particularly apparent in smaller and medium-sized organisations. This thesis examines the causes of the problem, and suggests that it stems mainly from an undue emphasis being placed by management on finance-based techniques, a legacy from an earlier and much different environment. It seeks to establish that such techniques are not only inadequate, but potentially counter-productive. Using established research methodologies, a framework is developed which seeks to address the key issues involved in achieving business benefits from IT, yet which is understandable to, and applicable by, managers in medium-sized organisations. Uniquely among IT investment frameworks, the concept of business reengineering or business process redesign is introduced as a formal evaluation criterion, reflecting the degree of business transformation currently being experienced, and the central role of IT in that transformation. The framework is then validated and refined through being applied in actual investment decision making processes undertaken by five organisations covering a range of business arenas.
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Doan, Phuong Tran. "Investment and financing of build-operate-transfer projects with government guarantees." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610535.
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Alkhorayef, Abdulrahman Nasser M. "Improving decision making on large scale investment projects : a psychological perspective." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/8767/.
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Purpose: there is a substantial history of academic and professional interest in the planning, execution and performance of very large projects, typically focussing on underperformance relative to financial and social expectations. However, a lot of evidence in the professional, academic and public media that suggests these projects often underperform. This underperformance is continued to be reported and believed to be at least partly because of poor management and poor decision making. One of the key issues that has been identified as a cause for their underperformance is poor project. estimation. The focus of this thesis is to answer why they still show a poor performance record and to explore the influence of cognitive biases on decision stakeholders that lead to produce inadequate estimates. Theory and methodology: we combine a psychological perspective, the prospect theory in particular, on the decision making undertaken in managing such megaprojects with an in-depth, qualitative investigation of the knowledge of experienced managers and other key stakeholders, up to ministerial level (n= 29). We take this approach in order to complement previous studies of megaproject decision making which have often been undertaken from either a statistical perspective, or an experimental one, based on psychological laboratory studies. Key contributions: our results identify important and practically relevant insights in relation both to cultural specifics and generic issues of management decision making. A theoretical framework was developed and initially validated that explains megaproject poor estimates and poor performance from a psychological perspective along with identifying some underpinning causes for megaproject poor performance.
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Кузьменко, Ольга Віталіївна, Ольга Витальевна Кузьменко, Olha Vitaliivna Kuzmenko, and В. О. Овчаренко. "Methods review for assessing the investment attractiveness of innovative bank technologies." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/81312.
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The use of information and communication technologies significantly changes the modern business space. Today banks are actively applying approaches to customer service, based on the use of innovative information technologies. These technologies provide a competitive advantage for a bank and contribute to growing its profitability. At the same time, it is risky to invest in innovations, since new technology implementation may not bring the desired effect. Therefore, the investment attractiveness assessment of innovative banking technologies is actual for banks, and the use of assessment will avoid inefficient and risky investment decisions.
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Кузьменко, Ольга Віталіївна, Ольга Витальевна Кузьменко, Olha Vitaliivna Kuzmenko, and В. О. Овчаренко. "Methods review for assessing the investment attractiveness of innovative bank technologies." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/80936.
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The use of information and communication technologies significantly changes the modern business space. Today banks are actively applying approaches to customer service, based on the use of innovative information technologies. These technologies provide a competitive advantage for a bank and contribute to growing its profitability. At the same time, it is risky to invest in innovations, since new technology implementation may not bring the desired effect. Therefore, the investment attractiveness assessment of innovative banking technologies is actual for banks, and the use of assessment will avoid inefficient and risky investment decisions.
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Nagy, Szabolcs, and P. G. Pererva. "Innovative perspectives for development of Ukrainian machine building." Thesis, Національний технічний університет "Харківський політехнічний інститут", 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/40229.
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Cecilia, Martinez Leal de de la Macorra. "Innovative community projects and their role in the urban development of Mexico City." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325442.
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Taylor, Teresa Brooks. "TNCC Service-Learning Faculty Champions Panel on Innovative Service-Learning Projects That Work." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3635.
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Caulfield, Peter Nicholas. "Innovative methods for the assessment of hazardous waste on remediation and construction projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/41338.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-126).
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Soligram, Wesley Clyde. "The influence of agile project teams and team voice on product innovation in a large South African Investment bank." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79659.
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The need for product (software) innovation is pertinent now more than ever for
companies to evolve and gain a competitive edge. In these tough economic times,
companies face intense competition against rivals amid a global pandemic. The rise
of small fintech companies sneaking in and taking market share from larger
companies is more prominent. Although large companies are aware of this, these
companies are still slow to respond to market changes with suitable innovative
products. Large financial companies are shifting towards an agile work method with
the aim of delivering innovative software products sooner to the market. The agile
methodology of work has necessitated the need for agile project teams. The purpose
of these agile teams is to respond quicker to customer demands by developing
innovative software products. Therefore, there is merit in understanding the
influences that agile project teams and team voice have on product innovation.
The purpose of this study is to understand the influences that agile projects teams
and team voice have on product innovation. A qualitative study was conducted to
gather information on this phenomenon. This inductive, exploratory study has
surfaced the components of innovation, the team elements influencing innovation,
the contributors to innovation and the effects of groupthink within agile project teams.
The insight gained on these concepts has assisted in understanding the
phenomenon better.
Twelve participants were interviewed in a Gauteng based investment bank in South
Africa. The data received from the interviewed participants showed that agile project
teams and team voice have a positive influence on product innovation. However,
many issues relating to agile project teams, leadership and product innovation have
been discovered which need a significant amount of attention to ensure companies
build effective innovation teams.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Chow, Mark A. (Mark Andrew) 1972. "A rating system to test private investment decisions in public infrastructure projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/50511.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168).
This thesis will develop a basic method to evaluate the overall quality of proposed infrastructure projects for private sector financial investment. INFRATEST is meant to aid both potential private infrastructure developers and public entities, which desire to privatize certain infrastructure projects, in selection of the most appropriate infrastructure projects to benefit from the advantages of free enterprise. INFRATEST is premised on 15 equally-weighted factors which represent the major components that affect overall infrastructure project economic, financial, and technical viability. Associated with each of the 15 factors are indicators which measure the important aspects of their respective factors. There are 31 indicators in all and they are evaluated on a numerical scale of one to ten. Factor scores are determined from indicator value averages. INFRATEST can serve the private developer and the public entity by providing an information base for deciding which privately funded infrastructure development proposals deserve consideration in the capital markets and for deciding which proposed infrastructure projects are to be developed with public or private funds. Application of INFRATEST to two real-world project proposals, the SAVE project and the Northumberland Bridge project, demonstrated the method's ease and universality of application as well as the method's simple and clear conclusions.
by Mark A. Chow.
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Shah, Raj K. "Innovative methodology for location-based scheduling and visualisation of earthworks in road construction projects." Thesis, Teesside University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10149/194590.
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This thesis focuses on the development of an innovative location-based scheduling methodology and a computer-based model for improving earthwork operations in road construction projects. Analysis of existing planning and scheduling practices in road construction projects conducted in the course of this research concluded that planning, scheduling and resource allocation are largely dependent on subjective decisions. Also, shortcomings exist due to the distinct characteristics of earthworks, e.g. one-off projects with uncertain site conditions and soil characteristics, causing delays and cost overruns of projects. The literature review found that existing linear scheduling methods provide inaccurate location-based information about earthworks and fail to integrate different productivity rates. A survey was used to capture and analyse industrial practices and issues related to delays and cost overruns. This analysis revealed that the accurate location-based information is vital for efficient resource planning and progress monitoring. Following these findings, a theoretical framework and specification were developed to automate location-based scheduling and visualisation of information. A prototype model was developed by integrating road design data, sectional quantities, productivity rates, unit cost, site access points, and arithmetic algorithms. The algorithms underpinning the model enable the generation of time-location plans automatically as a key output of the model. Weekly progress profiles, space congestion plans, and cost S-curves are the other outputs. A cut-fill algorithm was developed to identify optimum quantities of earthwork and its associated costs. Experiments were conducted with design data provided by a road construction company to demonstrate the model‟s functionality. Sensitivity analysis was used to identify the critical factors relating to earthwork scheduling. It was found that the model is capable of generating time-location plans, considering the critical factors and location aspects. Finally, the model was evaluated using a case study and validated by road construction professionals using an indirect comparison method. It was concluded that the model is a valuable tool for producing location-based scheduling, optimising resource planning and assisting in the communication of scheduling information from the location viewpoints in the earthwork projects.
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Agyekum-Mensah, G. "The development of an innovative sustainable Total Planning and Control system for construction projects." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2013. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29/.
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The management of construction projects has been heavily criticised by government institutions, academics and practitioners for delays, cost overruns and suboptimum performance. Numerous studies have identified project planning as the main problem with both the management methodology and conventional project planning techniques deemed insufficient. It has been established that only fifty per cent of the planned work is completed as scheduled. This is consistent with the findings of this study, which again confirms the insufficiency of the techniques available to the general practitioner. This research explores operational problems associated with project planning and control, and develops an innovative and holistic planning and control system to deliver sustainable construction projects. A qualitative strategy was adopted for this study utilising interviews and multiple case study methods, which are complementary approaches. In total, four case studies were selected from the predominant UK construction industry and 81 interviews were conducted for this study. Given the criticisms of qualitative research as methodologically weak, this study develops a research process that addresses the specific objectives of the study. This research contributes to Project Management (PM) knowledge by developing and implementing an innovative Total Planning and Control (TPC) system to enhance the current practice and to deliver sustainable projects. The TPC system is a holistic, simple, effective and efficient approach for project planning and control in the ‘real world’ construction industry. It was developed through a practice informed theory approach, which make it more applicable to actual construction projects. The implication of the TPC system is to overcome the limitations of planning and managing construction projects, which also improves communication, workflow and sets foundation for related functions such as, logistic, cost, risk, collaborative and early warning planning. The TPC system comprises of the development of a 4Es (Economic, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Ethics) management and performance model, project and PM constraints, construction PM managerial process, as well as a sustainable model, 4Es and 4Poles (Technology, Economy, Society and Environment). This study is concerned with the enhancement of construction PM practice. It also enables a deeper understanding of project planning and control in contrast to the conventional planning system which focuses mainly on scheduling.
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Карпіщенко, Олександр Олексійович, Александр Алексеевич Карпищенко, Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Karpishchenko, Тетяна Олексіївна Ілляшенко, Татьяна Алексеевна Ильяшенко, and Tetiana Oleksiivna Illiashenko. "Особливості реалізації інноваційних проектів у сфері інформаційних технологій із залученням зовнішніх інвестицій." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2011. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/13867.
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Cisneros-Molina, Myriam. "Mathematical methods for valuation and risk assessment of investment projects and real options." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491350.
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In this thesis, we study the problems of risk measurement, valuation and hedging of financial positions in incomplete markets when an insufficient number of assets are available for investment (real options). We work closely with three measures of risk: Worst-Case Scenario (WCS) (the supremum of expected values over a set of given probability measures), Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Average Value-at-Risk (AVaR), and analyse the problem of hedging derivative securities depending on a non-traded asset, defined in terms of the risk measures via their acceptance sets. The hedging problem associated to VaR is the problem of minimising the expected shortfall. For WCS, the hedging problem turns out to be a robust version of minimising the expected shortfall; and as AVaR can be seen as a particular case of WCS, its hedging problem is also related to the minimisation of expected shortfall. Under some sufficient conditions, we solve explicitly the minimal expected shortfall problem in a discrete-time setting of two assets driven by correlated binomial models. In the continuous-time case, we analyse the problem of measuring risk by WCS, VaR and AVaR on positions modelled as Markov diffusion processes and develop some results on transformations of Markov processes to apply to the risk measurement of derivative securities. In all cases, we characterise the risk of a position as the solution of a partial differential equation of second order with boundary conditions. In relation to the valuation and hedging of derivative securities, and in the search for explicit solutions, we analyse a variant of the robust version of the expected shortfall hedging problem. Instead of taking the loss function $l(x) = [x]^+$ we work with the strictly increasing, strictly convex function $L_{\epsilon}(x) = \epsilon \log \left( \frac{1+exp\{−x/\epsilon\} }{ exp\{−x/\epsilon\} } \right)$. Clearly $lim_{\epsilon \rightarrow 0} L_{\epsilon}(x) = l(x)$. The reformulation to the problem for L_{\epsilon}(x) also allow us to use directly the dual theory under robust preferences recently developed in [82]. Due to the fact that the function $L_{\epsilon}(x)$ is not separable in its variables, we are not able to solve explicitly, but instead, we use a power series approximation in the dual variables. It turns out that the approximated solution corresponds to the robust version of a utility maximisation problem with exponential preferences $(U(x) = −\frac{1}{\gamma}e^{-\gamma x})$ for a preferenes parameter $\gamma = 1/\epsilon$. For the approximated problem, we analyse the cases with and without random endowment, and obtain an expression for the utility indifference bid price of a derivative security which depends only on the non-traded asset.
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Young, Rhonda. "Multimodel investment choice analysis : application of goal programming for selection of transportation projects /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10206.
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Small, Rachel. "Alternative investments in social projects why grant-makers participate in program-related investment /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6985.
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Карпіщенко, Олександр Олексійович, Александр Алексеевич Карпищенко, and Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Karpishchenko. "Ecologization of the investment projects as the factor of preservation of an environment." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2004. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/22825.
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Karpishchenko, O. A. "Ecologization of the investment projects as the factor of preservation of an environment." Thesis, Видавництво СумДУ, 2006. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/21522.
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Шкарупа, Олена Василівна, Елена Васильевна Шкарупа, Olena Vasylivna Shkarupa, and І. В. Бурич. "Економічні проблеми формування портфеля екологоорієнтованих інноваційних проектів в регіоні." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/36964.
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Сучасні тенденції розвитку економіки свідчать про швидкий розвиток інноваційної та інвестиційної діяльності. Його темпи суттєво залежать від визначення складу портфелів інноваційно-інвестиційних проектів в регіоні. Разом з тим, усвідомлення важливості та глобального характеру екологічних проблем призвело до того, що все більше країн почали враховувати екологічні аспекти в загальноекономічній і фінансовій політиці та впроваджувати природоохоронне та відповідне податкове законодавство.
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Szpiro, Daniel A. "Evaluating the agency and learning-based prescriptions for post-investment review of capital projects." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ31103.pdf.
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