E-business is viewed as a transformative technology that may affect supply chain coordination, reduce transaction costs, facilitate international sales, and enable new organizational structures. While Canadian figures indicate online sales account for less than 1% of total operating revenue, growth rates are high, with a 40% increase in online sales in 2003. (Statistics Canada, 2004). Given thi...

the basic model for valuation of firm is the dividend discount model (ddm). when investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. in the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...

A growing empirical literature examines the relationship between music file sharing and legal purchases of music, but existing studies examine the period before consumers had attractive legal digital a la carte options. The iTunes Music Store has grown quickly since its appearance in 2003, and digital music now accounts for a third of US recorded music sales. Using a new survey of University of...

OBJECTIVE Recent research evidence suggests that the consumption of different types of alcoholic beverage may have a differential effect on cardiovascular diseases (CVD) mortality rates. The aim of this study was to examine the relation between the consumption of different beverage types and CVD mortality rates in Russia across the later-Soviet and post-Soviet periods. METHOD Age-standardized...

BACKGROUND More than 50,000 new HIV infections occur annually in the United States. Injection drug users represent twelve percent of incident HIV infections each year. Pharmacy sales of over-the-counter (OTC) syringes have helped prevent HIV transmission among injection drug users in many states throughout the United States. However, concerns exist among some law enforcement officials, policyma...

OBJECTIVE This report updates our earlier work on the returns to pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) in the US (1980 to 1984), which showed that the returns distributions are highly skewed. It evaluates a more recent cohort of new drug introductions in the US (1988 to 1992) and examines how the returns distribution is emerging for drugs with life cycles concentrated in the 1990s versu...

a r t i c l e i n f o Salespeople play a pivotal role in promoting new products. Therefore, managers need to know what control mechanism (i.e., output-based control, behavior-based control, or knowledge-based control) can improve their salespeople's new product sales performance. Furthermore, managers may be able to assist salespeople in performing better by having a strong market orientation. ...

BACKGROUND Mental disorders are strongly associated with excess suicide risk, and successful treatment might prevent suicide. Since 1990, and particularly after 1998, there has been a substantial increase in mental health service resources in Norway. This study aimed to investigate whether these changes have had an impact on suicide mortality. METHODS We used Poisson regression analyses to as...

A large literature tests the structure-conduct-performance paradigm by regressions which use the profits-sales ratio as the dependent variable. That ratio is used because, under constant returns, it is generally supposed that profits/sales equals the Lerner measure of monopoly power. Profits/sales ratios are also used to make inferences about monopoly power for individual firms. This paper show...

one of the most important behavioral aspects in relationship among the main members of marketing channel is the issue of power and dependence that here we have looked through the source of power and countervailing power and we have considered reputation independence, sale and profits and marketing role dependence. in this research relationship between the two main marketing channel members in h...