We propose that e-marketplace sellers’ performances are shaped by how sellers deploy signals. Recent research on the signal-performance relationship proposes variety of signal attributes to create a more robust link. However, few of them explore the role of the signaling strategy, let alone empirically testing its effect. Drawing on signaling theory and literatures on strategic management, we a...

With the growing concern with our environment, the practice degree of green supply chain management I attractgetting more and more attention from academic and industry. Therefore, studying green supply chain management practice is a very meaningful work. Green supply chain management performance appraisal will involve a lot of indicators, and there are usually have dependence and feedback relat...

Under electronic commerce, how to raise the consumers’ degree of satisfaction and gain the consumers’ loyalty have become the key factor relating with whether e-commerce enterprise can survive, so it’s vital to evaluate status of customer satisfaction for B2C Electronic-Commerce Enterprise . According to the investigation result by internet, this paper brings forward the indicator system of cus...

This paper examines empirically the relationship between the internal technological profile and the diversification through strategic alliances of the largest 219 industrial firms world-wide. It explores three related issues. First, the paper shows that firms’ internal technological diversification is more pronounced than external technological diversification. Second, it confirms the idea that...

Paper Title How Does Performance Evaluation Affect Teacher Motivation? Lessons From YES Prep Public Schools Claire Robertson-Kraft, University of Pennsylvania Author(s) Policy Issues Related to Teacher Evaluation Session Title Paper Session Type 4/16/2012 Presentation Date Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Presentation Location Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Quality Descriptors Qualitative Meth...

In this paper, an approach for suitable fault management in traffic information networks, focusing on the isolation of network faults in infrastructure networks, will be introduced. We will show, that modelbased diagnosis is an efficient method for finding explanations consisting of the underlying fault events of system failures. A fault management system based on these concepts will be discuss...

Dynamic traffic management (DTM) measures are potentially powerful measures to not only improve network efficiency, but also to reduce externalities of traffic (e.g. emissions of substances, noise and safety). In current practice the deployment of DTM measures (or DTM-strategies) focuses on improving efficiency on a local level. Further the assessment of DTM is concerned with a number of predef...

Distribution centers (DCs) play important poles in supply chain managements. How to decide an effective and reasonable distribution center location is a first goal for supply chain design, which directly influences the efficiency of the network of facilities and activities that procure, produce, and distribute goods to customers. In the previous literatures, authors seldom consider unexpected e...

This paper describes our experiment and analysis of utilizing prerequisite skill features to improve the predicting of student retention performance. There are two aspects that make this paper interesting. First, instead of focusing on short-team performance, we investigated the student retention performance after a delay of 7 days. We explored several prerequisite skill features that can be ca...