this study is conducted to measure the actual efficiency comparison of life insurance company between bangladesh and malaysia. total 15 life insurance companies’ were selected for the study where 10 conventional life insurance companies’ from bangladesh and 5 takaful lifeinsurance companies’ from malaysia. authors tried toindicate the problems and way to get exact solutions by using data envelo...

This study provides evidence that franchise value improves insurers’ operating performance. Essentially coming from an insurer’s market power, franchise value includes the insurer’s brand royalty, business networking, and underwriting and claim specialty. High franchise value firms who could charge more, have lower operating costs, and have a larger client base are potentially more profitable. ...

The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise Daphna Oyserman, Mesmin Destin & Sheida Novin a Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90266, USA b Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA c Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA d Dep...

In this outline of the neural control of food intake, no attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive survey of the literature since there are several symposia and reviews available which summarize the extensive work in this field (Grossman, 1975; Novin et al. 1976; Silverstone, 1976; Morgane & Panksepp, 1980; Hoebel & Novin, 1982). Instead some current concepts of the neural control of foo...

attracting customers in service industries has a noticeable effect on increasing the competitiveness of enterprises. this study aims to examine customers return in the field of customer relationship management. given that no systematic research has been performed relating to the concept of customers return in iran, this study presents an experimental model which identifies the factors leading t...

O ne of the key topics and the most important tools to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each organization and company is the evaluation the performance of organizational activities that rating and ranking follows the internal and external goals. In this regard insurance companies similarly are looking for evaluation of their branches through scoring, ...

A company or organization requires special unique strategies to achieve organizational goals which not only do bring about macro-and long-term goals, but also create competitive status for the organization. However, developing different strategies will not guarantee the organization’s success, but the implementation of strategy is the most important step in the entire life of strategic managem...

OBJECTIVE Individuals with diabetes pay increased premiums and experience limited coverage when taking out accident insurance, despite the lack of scientific support for this practice. The aim of the present study was to analyze whether diabetic individuals have an increased risk of accident or an increased risk of permanent disability after an accident, compared with two nondiabetic groups. ...

Knowledge Management (KM) has become an important success factor for enterprises in virtually all areas during the last decade. IT-supported KM solutions are built around some kind of organizational memory that is structured according to an ontology. We present a methodology for application-driven development of ontologies that is instantiated by a case study, viz. the introduction of an ontolo...