Measuring Translation Competence Acquisition

Acquisition Performance: Experience or Competence?

In a study of over 10,000 acquisitions between 1991 and 2002, we find evidence that past success raises future performance in private, or semi-private, bids but not in public bids. We also find that past success was not associated with the number of prior acquisitions. We attribute this past success to an unobserved acquisition competence and argue that acquisition competence must be based on s...

Understanding and measuring user competence

End User Computing (EUC) is experiencing a resurgence of importance as managers realize it is tied to the new knowledge economy through knowledge-worker productivity. Assessing individual's capabilities with respect to end user technologies is central to both research on EUC and management of EUC in organizations. For this reason, we advance a new construct, User Competence, which is multi-face...

Measuring organisational capability: beyond competence

Measuring Customer Acquisition Value: A Comprehensive Approach to Customer Equity

In information technology era, databases are known asone of the most valuable resources for organizations, especially usedin database marketing. Customer Equity is a key concept in DatabaseMarketing which integrates customer acquisition, retention and development.From the perspective of customer equity, customers are theprimary source of both current and future cash-flows. Customer equitymodels...

Translation Invariant Approach for Measuring Similarity of Signals

In many signal processing applications, an appropriate measure to compare two signals plays a fundamental role in both implementing the algorithm and evaluating its performance. Several techniques have been introduced in literature as similarity measures. However, the existing measures are often either impractical for some applications or they have unsatisfactory results in some other applicati...