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Altering the environment to improve appointment system performance
(Informs, 2019-06)Current research on clinic performance is focused primarily on appointment scheduling rather than shaping the clinical environments. The goal of this study is to investigate the impact of environmental factors on the total ... -
Alışveri̇ş merkezleri̇ni̇n Türki̇ye’deki̇ mevzuat çerçevesi̇nde değerlendi̇ri̇lmesi̇
(Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, 2017)Küresel ölçekte alışveriş merkezlerinin tarihsel gelişim süreci incelendiğinde, ticaret alanlarının alışveriş merkezlerine dönüşüm sürecinde ilk adımların Avrupa’da atıldığı bilinmektedir (Birol, 2005; Geç, 2008 ve Kiriş, ... -
Ambulance location for maximum survival
(Wiley, 2008-02)This article proposes new location models for emergency medical service stations. The models are generated by incorporating a survival function into existing covering models. A survival function is a monotonically decreasing ... -
Analysis of cross-country variations in the depth of European mortgage markets
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2016-09)To date, quantitative analysis on the depth of mortgage markets across a broad set of countries has been very limited. This paper uses a rich and balanced data set on 31 European countries to investigate the cross-country ... -
Analysis of customer switching behavior in omni-channel retailing
(Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, IISE, 2020)Omni-channel retailing is a recent approach that allows customers to purchase products from anywhere and return them anywhere and allows retailers to fulfill orders from anywhere. This flexibility improves the customer ... -
Anticipating the financial crisis: evidence from insider trading in banks
(Oxford University Press, 2020-04)Banking crises are recurrent phenomena, often induced by excessive bank risk-taking, which may be due to behavioural reasons (over-optimistic banks neglecting risks) and to conflicts of interest between bank shareholders/managers ... -
App popularity: Where in the world are consumers most sensitive to price and user ratings?
(American Marketing Association, 2018-09)Many companies compete globally in a world in which user ratings and price are important drivers of performance but whose importance may differ by country. This study builds on the cultural, economic, and structural ... -
The appreciative democratic voice of DEA: a case of faculty academic performance evaluation
(Elsevier, 2014-03)Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is in fact more than just being an instrument for measuring the relative efficiencies of a group of decision making units (DMU). DEA models are also means of expressing appreciative democratic ... -
Approximating vehicle dispatch probabilities for emergency service systems with location-specific service times and multiple units per location
(Informs, 2009-02)To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system, one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. ... -
An approximation of stochastic hyperbolic equations: case with Wiener process
(Wiley, 2013-06)In the present paper, the two-step difference scheme for the Cauchy problem for the stochastic hyperbolic equation is presented. The convergence estimate for the solution of the difference scheme is established. In ... -
An approximation of stochastic telegraph equations
(AIP Publishing, 2012)In the present paper the two-step difference scheme for the telegraph equation is presented. The convergence estimate for the solution of the difference scheme is established. In applications, the convergence estimates for ... -
Are crowdsourcing announcements signals of customer orientation? A comparison of consumer responses to product- versus communication-related campaigns
(Emerald, 2023-05-05)Purpose: This study aims to examine consumers’ responses to crowdsourcing campaigns in the request initiation stage using the signaling theory from economics. The purpose of the research is threefold. First, it provides a ... -
Aspiration-based choice
(Elsevier, 2018-07)Numerous studies and experiments suggest that aspirations for desired but perhaps unavailable alternatives influence decisions. A common finding is that an unavailable aspiration steers agents to choose similar available ... -
Assessing consequences of component sharing across brands in the vertical product line in the automotive market
(Wiley, 2012-07)Component sharing may look great in the boardroom, but not in the showroom. Indeed, savings on R&D and production costs could be offset by a plunge in customer brand attractiveness. Combining experimental with econometric ... -
Assessment of patient classification in appointment system design
(Production and Operations Management Society, 2008-05)This paper investigates two approaches to patient classification: using patient classification only for sequencing patient appointments at the time of booking and using patient classification for both sequencing and ... -
The asymmetric impact of oil prices, interest rates and oil price uncertainty on unemployment in the US
(Elsevier, 2020-02-01)In this study, we investigate the presence of asymmetric interactions between oil prices, oil price uncertainty, interest rates, and unemployment in a cointegration framework. Utilizing the nonlinear auto-regressive ... -
Baked beats grilled: a calorie analysis of 18,000 menu items in fast food chain restaurants
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Fast food and chain restaurants often give the menu items descriptive names related to the production processes (e.g., baked, fried, grilled, glazed). Do these descriptions in a food’s name provide a useful indication of ... -
Bank regulation under fire sale externalities
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06)We examine the optimal design of and interaction between capital and liquidity regulations. Banks, not internalizing fire sale externalities, overinvest in risky assets and underinvest in liquid assets in the competitive ... -
Battle of the brand fans: impact of brand attack and defense on social media(article)
(Elsevier, 2018-08)Fans of a brand attack fans of rival brands on social media. Given the nature of such rival brand fan attacks, managers are unsure about how much control they should exercise on brand-negative comments on their owned social ... -
Being a woman entrepreneur in Turkey: Life role expectations and entrepreneurial self-efficacy
(Sage, 2019-05)Two major competing life roles, work and family, are reported to dominate people's efforts in constructing a life. Here, we aim to explore whether and how attributed life roles and related coping strategies of current and ...
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