Recently, online shopping has become a popular trade model. Merchants can put their goods information on a website built by the Internet platforms, such as Yahoo and eBay. This trade model facilitates customers to browse what goods the merchants sell. But the employed types of payment are not fair. In this paper, a new trade model for online shopping is proposed. This model adopts 3G mobile pho...

We compare the proceeds that CEOs realize from exercising stock options with the total nominal value (estimated fair value) of option pay that they receive during their tenures. For a sample of CEOs who completed their tenures during the period from 1992 to 2007, we find that the amount realized from exercising options is about 68% of the nominal value of options received and that realized tota...

We outline key conclusions of the World Health Organisation's report 'Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)'. The Report argues that three principles should inform choices on the path to UHC: I. Coverage should be based on need, with extra weight given to the needs of the worse off; II. One aim should be to generate the greatest total improvement in health; III. Con...

Authors and their sponsors are beginning to realize that immediate free Web access (IFWA) provides the most convenient access to journal articles thereby maximizing their impact. Furthermore, IFWA is the most economical mode of access, and, no matter what the mode, authors and their sponsors pay nearly all the costs of access. Because those who pay for access to journal articles consider IFWA b...

INTRODUCTION After working for nearly 15 years as a grocery store manager for Food Fair Stores, Inc., Carl Greeley voluntarily resigned from Food Fair to become a retail counselor at a competing grocery store. During his employment with Food Fair, Greeley participated in Food Fair’s noncontributory bonus and retirement plan, which Food Fair funded solely through its profits. The plan provided t...

the study addresses performance control matrix (pcm) to determine service quality items of priority for improvement. most businesses focus on customer satisfaction when undertaking surveys of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, while generally neglecting employee satisfaction. therefore, this study develops an integrated model to improve service quality in taiwanese finance industry employees. a ...