Purpose of the study The relationship between mutual fund performance and fund flows has been studied widely, but less attention has been given towards mutual fund launches and their success. For services the company itself plays as the brand, and thus product launch can be viewed as brand line extension. This paper investigates the importance of brand performance, company track record, on the ...

This study investigates the effects of dynamic-price retail contracting on end-to-end power system operations. Performance is evaluated by means of carefully defined metrics for system stability, market efficiency, and market participant welfare. The study is carried out for an Integrated Retail and Wholesale (IRW) Test Case for which households have smart (price-responsive) air-conditioning (A...

In recent years, the literature on the stigma of obesity has grown but there still remains a paucity of research examining specific issues associated with its impact in the workplace. In the current study, we examine 3 such issues related to the influence of weight-based stigmatization in retail settings. First, we highlight research on the impact of obesity in men often is minimized or altoget...

In this paper, a review has been made on retail inventory management with purchase dependency. The article also looks into the application of data mining in retail inventory management with purchase dependency.

introduction: supplies of illegal drugs play determinant roles in developing new cases, relapse after treatment and some health criteria. recently, iran has encountered an illicit new coming drug which belongs to opioids. this article presents the crack supply in retail market in tehran.   method: this qualitative study was conducted in 2009 in tehran. in-depth interviews with drug dealers, dru...

We examine multilateral bargaining in vertical supply relationships which involve an upstream manufacturer who sells through two competing retailers to end consumers. In these relationships the negotiations are inter-dependent and a bargaining externality may arise across the retailers. In addition, the timing by which the manufacturer negotiates with the retailers becomes important. The manufa...

The “crowd” in online crowdfunding is no longer just comprised of retail investors; in fact, debt-based crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending has long attracted the interest of institutional investors. Given their expertise, institutional investors are often referred to as “smart money” in traditional financial markets. It is not clear however how they may behave in this nascent market, and more...

The deregulation of power markets gave origin to a new activity: the retail business. Although it should, together with generation, be opened to competition, its implementation has been usually postponed to the last stages of the liberalization process. The diversity of situations that can be found in the international experience illustrates the lack of consensus about the appropriate design of...

Consider a manufacturer serving a set of retail stores each of which faces deterministic demands in a finite planning horizon. At the beginning of the planning horizon, the production capacity of the manufacturer is built, followed by production, outsourcing to third party manufacturers if necessary and distribution to the retail stores. Because the retail stores are usually managed by differen...