However, more Americans than ever lack health insurance, presenting a major barrier to receiving quality health care. These include children with congenital heart disease, who formerly would have died, but now survive to confront these challenges. And after an initial doubling, the National Institutes of Health’s budget has fallen flat with an actual reduction in purchasing power because fundin...

(1) Background: This is one of the few studies to look into online grocery shopping behavior in Indonesia, as an emerging sector economy. The technology acceptance model extended this study include price, health risk, and a reference group better understand factors extent which they influence shopping. (2) Methods: In order achieve goal research test model, literature-based questionnaire was de...

Given the impact of transportation costs on both supplier selection and inventory replenishment decisions in today’s enterprises, this article addresses both problems simultaneously by proposing a mixed integer nonlinear programming model to properly allocate order quantities to the selected set of suppliers while taking into account the purchasing, holding and transportation costs under suppli...

OBJECTIVE A front-of-pack nutrition logo on products with relatively favourable product compositions might help consumers to make more healthful choices. Studies investigating actual nutrition label use in point-of-purchase settings are scarce. The present study investigates the use of the 'Choices' nutrition logo in Dutch supermarkets. DESIGN Adults were asked to complete a validated questio...

For many years, purchasing and supplier performance evaluation have been discussed in both academic and industrial circles to improve buyer-supplier relationship. In this study, a novel model is presented to evaluate supplier performance according to different purchasing classes. In the proposed method, clustering analysis is applied to develop purchasing portfolio model using available data in...

Following to the publication in 1937 of the famous paper by Ronald Coase, who in 1991 won the Nobel Prize in Economics for the introduction of transaction costs, numerous contributions appeared in the related literature. Nowadays transaction costs are universally accepted, but researchers in the field agree on the difficulty in measuring and quantifying them. Motivated by such a research gap, t...

to improve health care quality by advancing the purchasing practices of major corporations and government agencies, particularly Fortune 500 companies, Medicare, and public employers. Objectives and Offerings: Our objectives are to help health care purchasers buy higher quality health care, save lives, and empower consumers to choose higher quality health plans and providers. We are also buildi...

Computer simulations and 2 experiments demonstrate the ultimate sampling dilemma, which constitutes a serious obstacle to inductive inferences in a probabilistic world. Participants were asked to take the role of a manager who is to make purchasing decisions based on positive versus negative feedback about 3 providers in 2 different product domains. When information sampling (from a computerize...

Over the last few years, research in the area of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) has focused on routing protocol performance improvements, security enhancements, power consumption optimizations, and quality of service metrics. The availability of sophisticated network simulation tools, such a NS2 and GloMoSim, has allowed researchers to study MANETs without purchasing the mobile nodes themselve...

buyer commitment to an exchange relation is a key issue in industrial marketing. commitment to an exchange has several benefits for buyer and seller such as increasing exchange efficiency, decreasing exchange cost and uncertainty. this article investigates commitment in b2b relationships from perspective of purchasing department managers. in the present study the satisfaction effects of purchas...