Business models like product-service systems (PSSs) often recognise different sustainability goals and are seen as solutions for the impacts of consumption fast fashion, but there is a lack evidence supporting environmental claims such business clothing. The research aimed to understand if rental clothing PSSs have benefits purported by quantifying formal dresses in life-cycle assessment (LCA) ...

This paper develops a model to examine the impacts of uncertainty about crop production and irreversibility of program participation on determining land rental payments and least-cost land retirement targeting in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. Results show that under risk aversion only, the marginal cost of abatement and the average land rental payment are less than those under r...

This paper examines the factors affecting the participation of farm households in farm land rental markets with particular focus on the impact of the land reform. The operational outcomes of such market participation are also analysed. The study used a panel dataset of farm households surveyed before and after the land reform with Random Effect Tobit model. The analysis showed that the land ref...

Ethnic and gender discrimination in a variety of markets has been documented in several populations. We conducted an online field experiment to examine ethnic and gender discrimination in the private rental housing market in Finland. We sent 1459 inquiries regarding 800 apartments. We compared responses to standardized apartment inquiries including fictive Arabic-sounding, Finnish-sounding or S...

We study a large, successful rental car company that buys new vehicles and rents them to a series of customers who choose long or short term rental contracts. The company earns extraordinarily high rates of return on its rental cars, with average internal rates of return between purchase and sale of approximately 50%. We develop a stochastic semi-Markov duration model of the company’s operation...

The existence of tourism facilities and infrastructure are elements to facilitate the process activities. With infrastructure, it is hoped that activities can run smoothly. Among in transportation/tour buses, travel operators, agents, restaurants, hotels/inns, tourist attractions, attractions. PT Asli Prima Inti Karya a company engaged bus rental services, located Pandeglang Regency, precisely ...

We use nationally representative survey data from two neighboring countries in Southern Africa – Zambia and Malawi – to characterize the current status of rural land rental market participation by smallholder farmers. We find that rural rental market participation is strongly conditioned by land scarcity, and thus is more advanced in Malawi than in lower-density Zambia. In both countries, we fi...

This paper analyzes the possibility of a monopoly firm selling and renting a packaged software product. It employs a simple model to analyze the firm's pricing strategy. We observe that the introduction of the rental product leads to an increase in profits, an increase in selling and a decrease in rental prices as a function of the rate of change of the rental price with respect to the quantity...

A composite Web service, such as arranging a travel to a conference, can be viewed as a project team that is comprised of several members who want to collaborate in order to accomplish a specific goal. In this work, we propose an algorithm for searching a social network of Web services in order to select an effective set of Web services that can collaborate in order to attain the main goal of t...