Nowadays, purchasing decisions are increasingly considering both tangible and intangible factors that in supplier selection. If suppliers have capacity or other different constraints, the problem is to identity the potential suppliers and to allocate the optimal order quantity among the selected suppliers. In this paper an integrated model of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and preemptive goal...

We show how the financial market valuation of firms can be used to estimate the intangible costs and benefits of computer capital and we present several new empirical results based on this model. Using eight years of data for 820 non-financial firms in the United States, we find that an increase of one dollar in the quantity of computer capital installed by a firm is associated with an increase...

We examine the effect of intangible investment on earnings non-commonality, defined as the extent to which a firm’s earnings performance is determined by firm-specific factors versus marketand industry-wide factors. Such insight is important in determining the appropriate weight to place on each of these factors when forecasting a firm's earnings. We measure earnings non-commonality as the unex...

We model how the financial market valuation of firms can be used to estimate the intangible costs and benefits of computer capital and we present several new empirical results based on this model. Using eight years of data for over 1000 firms in the United States, we find that an increase of one dollar in the quantity of computer capital installed by a firm is associated with an increase of up ...

Intangible benefits have been a thorn in the side of information technology project valuation efforts. These benefits are often comparable to tangible benefits in magnitude, and so should not be ignored. Yet, unless we can attach numbers to them, it is difficult to combine them in a consistent way with tangible benefits to reduce the chances of underestimating the true value of a project. The l...

The increasing number of people who are colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant bacteria imposes a high economic burden on society which includes the negative impact on health status as an intangible cost. An economic analysis leads to the conclusion that currently too little is done to prevent or control infections. The reasons include insufficient incentives for health care providers, ...

This white paper examines the benefits, both expected and realized, for migrating data warehouses from Oracle platforms to the Teradata platform. It builds upon a previous white paper on migration strategies, for which several companies in different industries were interviewed. The study reveals that smart IT managers must balance a multifaceted perspective on benefits: immediate payoffs versus...

Leg ulcer management is complex, time-consuming and of high socio-economic importance. Data on cost-of-illness in leg ulcer care are sparse. The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-of-illness in leg ulcer treatment in the metropolitan area of Hamburg. About 147 institutions involved in wound care participated in a cross-sectional study. Patients consecutively recruited underwent a ...