It has been a long demand of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that the Content (CPs) share their profits for investments in network infrastructure. In this paper, we study profit sharing contracts between CP with multiple ISPs. Each ISP commits to improving Quality (QoS) end-users through higher efforts. The agrees due resulting its content. We first model non-cooperative interaction and ISPs ...

Rapid technological developments and deregulation of the telecommunications industry have changed the way in which content providers distribute and price their goods and services. Instead of selling a bundle of content and access through proprietary networks, these firms are shifting their distribution channels to the Internet. In this new setting, the content and Internet service providers fin...

Introduction Missed opportunities and barriers to vaccination limit progress toward achieving high immunization coverage and other global immunization goals. Little is known about vaccination practices contributing to missed opportunities and barriers among private healthcare providers in Africa. Methods Service Provision Assessments (SPA) of representative samples of health facilities in fou...

In the era of experience economy, how best to deliver memorable and exciting customer experiences has become a key issue for service providers, and customers can involve themselves in service experience delivery by actively deciding appropriate services rather than passively accepting existing ones. However, service providers frequently consider profit and cost first despite knowing that high-q...

Recent platforms, like Uber and Lyft, offer service to consumers via “self-scheduling” providers who decide for themselves how often to work. These platforms may charge consumers prices and pay providers wages that both adjust based on prevailing demand conditions. For example, Uber uses a “surge pricing” policy, which pays providers a fixed commission of its dynamic price. We find that the opt...

Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015–19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless their political control. Conservative Party-controlled also more likely contract with although we found no link Labour-controlled and not-for-profit nor evidence or budgetary factors influence whether providers b...

INTRODUCTION The STOP TB Partnership aims to improve global tuberculosis (TB) control through expanding access to the directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) strategy. One approach to this is 'Engaging all Care Providers', which evolved from 'Public-Private Mix (PPM) DOTS'. The overall aim of this study was to systematically assess whether and to what degree the STOP TB Partnership's fo...