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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Yanming Ge, Jianxin Zhang
With effect of consumer factor considered, a model for dynamic pricing of perishable products is proposed. By this model, we obtained a property of the value function: marginal value is a decreasing function of the capacity and an increasing function of the c…
Harri Jalonen, Pekka Juntunen
This paper explores the potential for innovation in welfare services. Using the complexity lens, the paper presents a theoretically founded basis for enabling innovation in complex public-private welfare service systems. The empirical data was collected by co…
Zhongguo Shi, Jing Li
Since the middle age of 1980s, China has made great performance at economic growth, and greatly improved its innovation level. As the representation index of innovation activity, patents number growth is also significant. This paper constructed quintic overde…
Juan A. Campos-Soria, A. García-Pozo, José Luis Sánchez-Ollero, Carlos G. Benavides-Chicón
This paper presents a comparative analysis of the wage structures in the Spanish hospitality sector and other private service industries. Using data from the 2006 Spanish Wage Structure Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial) [1], we estimate human capital r…
P. Tirupathi Rao, M. Venkateswaran, R. Vishnu Vardhan
Evaluation of drug impact both on positive and negative sides is very important to monitor the drug administration during the treatment. The effectiveness of drug is a variable due to various chance and assignable causes. Evaluation of drug efficacy through c…
Liyan Liu
Endeavors have been made in this paper to discern the long-run relations between FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and economic development in China in the comprehensive framework, which incorporates determinants as output, FDI, capital formation, employment, h…
Andrew Sulle
One element of the NPM-inspired reforms is the adoption of result-based management in the Tanzanian public sector. This paper examines the implementation of this type of reform by focusing on executive agencies. Executive agencies were especially created to b…
Andrea Bonaccorsi, Gionata Carmignani, Francesco Zammori
This paper presents a comprehensive lean approach, based on Value Stream Management (VSM), which makes it possi- ble to enhance the performance of a service, by spotting and tackling its criticalities. The study is motivated by the growing need to extend lean…
Jun-Yi Shen, Xiang-Dong Qin
Understanding why firms choose to implement voluntary environmental schemes in a large polluted country like China is important for both environmental economists and policy makers. In this paper, we utilize unique plant-level survey data of 270 Chinese firms…
Ya-Mei Chen, Elaine Adams Thompson, Bobbie Berkowitz, Heather M. Young, Deborah Ward
Objectives: This study identified specific personal factors and home- and community-based services (HCBS) that predict older adults’ residential transitions between community and institutional settings. Method: Logistic regression of interview data from 5294…
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