From Amazon.com to Zfurniture.com, the e-commerce industry is booming. Ecommerce, generally defined as transactions that involve the exchange of goods and services by electronic means [1] , is most commonly transacted via the Internet, a worldwide network of computers and other communications equipment linked by high-speed data lines and wireless systems. [2] The Internet and the World Wide Web...

Frontier techniques have been used to measure healthcare provider efficiency in hundreds of published studies. Although these methods have the potential to be useful to decision makers, their utility is limited by both methodological questions concerning their application. The aim of this paper is to examine the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) results in o...

In determining the cost of production and sales a product unit is often faced with problems in making decisions. Determination can be done more quickly there standardized calculation method correctly correctly. The purpose this research to determine calculate per certain amount based on imposition costs. Imposing determined these components, both by direct indirect costing accordance organizati...

There are a number of measurement instruments in the field of education whose aims are to measure various aspects of educational technology. However, the psychometric properties of such instruments are not always determined, and their use is not always appropriate. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the survey of factors affecting teachers teaching with techno...

The production of performance data in organizations is often described as a functional process that managers enforce on their employees to provide leaders with accurate information about employees’ work and their achievements. This study draws on a 15-month ethnography of a desk sales unit to build a dramaturgical model that explains how managers participate in the production of performance dat...

Retailer-Driven Product Bundling in a Distribution Channel This paper studies product bundling in a distribution channel where a downstream retailer combines component goods produced by separate manufacturers acting independently. Past literature offers deep insights about bundling by a single firm whose unit costs are not impacted by choice of selling strategy. But, when the retailer bundles g...

This paper employs machine learning to quantify the value of “soft” information contained in real estate property descriptions. Textual descriptions contain that traditional hedonic attributes cannot capture. A one standard deviation increase uniqueness a based on this leads 15% sale price model and 10% repeat sales model. The effects appear arise through two channels: unobserved quality housin...

A multiple-partners assignment game with heterogeneous sales and multiunit demands consists of a set of sellers that own a given number of indivisible units of (potentially many di¤erent) goods and a set of buyers who value those units and want to buy at most an exogenously …xed number of units. We de…ne a competitive equilibrium for this generalized assignment game and prove its existence by u...

Modern finance theory is based on the competitive market paradigm (see Duffie 1992, Jarrow and Turnbull 1996). The competitive market paradigm has two implicit assumptions. The first is that security markets are perfectly elastic—that is, traders act as price takers. Price takers believe that they can buy and sell as many shares of a security as they wish without changing the price. The second ...