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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 ...
Predicting the performance of queues–A data analytic approach
(Elsevier, 2016)
Existing models of multi-server queues with system transience and non-standard assumptions are either too complex or restricted in their assumptions to be used broadly in practice. This paper proposes using data analytics, ...
The geography of funding markets and limits to arbitrage
(Society for Financial Studies, 2015-04)
We use the relative pricing of pairs of emerging market (EM) sovereign bonds issued in both dollars and euros to study capital markets frictions during periods of financial distress. During the 2007–2008 crisis, we find ...
Drift control with changeover costs
(Informs, 2011)
We model the problem of managing capacity in a build-to-order environment as a Brownian drift control problem and seek a policy that minimizes the long-term average cost. We assume the controller can, at some cost, shift ...
Addressing endogeneity in the causal relationship between sustainability and financial performance
(Elsevier, 2019-04)
The existing empirical literature on the relationship between corporate sustainability performance and corporate financial performance casts doubt on the direction of this relationship although more studies point out a ...
Examining proactive strategic decision-making flexibility in new product development
(Wiley, 2012-07)
While strategic flexibility is widely accepted as a prerequisite for a firm's success, its application in strategic decision making to a firm's new product development (NPD) activities is limited to only a few studies. ...
The 39th international conference of the EURO working group on operational research applied to health services: ORAHS 2013 special issue
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2015-09)
The healthcare sector is facing major challenges worldwide in terms of higher demands for efficiency, quality and equity. Operational Research (OR) techniques offer valuable tools for improving the design and delivery of ...
Marketing mix and brand sales in global markets: examining the contingent role of country-market characteristics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-06)
Marketing products globally is challenging due to the diverse nature of markets. We use market heterogeneity, unbranded competition, resource and infrastructure availability, and sociopolitical governance as country-market ...
Developing a measure for 'connectorship' as a component of engaged leadership
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a mixed methods study that explored how active community engaged and connected managers were in their local and broader communities (engaged leadership, EL). ...
How can recessions be brought to an end? Effects of macroeconomic policy actions on durations of recession
(Elsevier, 2014-05)
This paper analyzes how effective macroeconomic policy actions are in ending recessions. We also investigate which structural factors help the country to experience shorter recessions. We implement survival regression ...
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