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Supply chain cooperation partner selection plays a significant role in supply chain research. In order to solve the adverse selection during selecting supply chain cooperation partner, the screening model is come up under some particular hypotheses. This paper analyses the optimum solution of the model in all cases, and designs contracts on the basis of optimum solution. Under certain conditions,...
Technology assets play a crucial role in enabling the competitiveness of companies in most industries. In this paper, we firstly attempt to clearly identify the types of the technological intangible assets that a company must acquire and apply in order to be successful in the marketplace. According to the analytical framework for assets specificity theory, a contract model is proposed to study the...
According to the problems of inventory restocking and difficult financing in the apparel supply chain, the paper has expanded the inventory financing method, and established a inventory financing contract, determined the collateral selection and decision-making of pledge rate. And then combined with the traditional supply contract, the paper has established a joint contract to coordinate the apparel...
After discussing the features of a firm's economical performance and environmental performance, the relationship between them, and the running requirement, this paper builds up an economic and environmental bi-performance objective incentive model for a firm with principal/agent theory. Economical performance is inside-driven, and environmental performance is outside-driven. Both local government...
The key approach to improving efficiency and competitiveness of Agri-product processing enterprise is to collaborate with production base and set up a highly-efficient supply chain, which is also an efficient way to guarantee the benefits of farmers. With an incomplete dynamic game model, the article analyses the conditions of the cooperation between Agri-product processing enterprise and the product...
The models of incentive and supervising between owner and operator under the condition of non-cooperation were advanced when there was one variable of operator's endeavor. And this paper established the mechanisms of incentive and supervising between owner and operator under asymmetric information after solving the two models, then, advanced the cooperation game model in participant's distribution...
The digital economy needs new indicators for emergent technologies, technical infrastructure for e-commerce and e-business share similar risks, and a risk analysis model is deployed as an Information System research method. The model for service provisioning to business is an evolutionary change of the application service provision which is classified as a sub-sector of the business consultancy in...
According to the principal-agent theory, in the condition of asymmetric information, the effectiveness of incentive salary programs is related to the private information which can be gathered from the agent. In the research, game model is applied to analyze the relation between the owner and the manager, finding some main factors which affect the manager's working effort. These factors are: the benefits...
The article combines agents screening model with F-S unfairness aversion model to investigate the influence of fairness preference on agents' competence screening contracts design in knowledge networks. We suggest that principal with fairness preference will cut down information rent to increase his utility. If efficient agents possess fairness preference, principal will increase the output of inefficient...
A constant goal of enterprises of all sizes is to align their business with IT. The major concern is to design the technology to support the desired performance goals and business values. In e-business collaborations, services are becoming the cornerstones for modeling the offerings of the involved parties. However, business concepts, like value offerings, typically cannot be linked to technology...
The present trend of enterprise computing is towards networked business, and thus there is a high demand on a new layer of global infrastructure that facilitates inter-enterprise collaboration management and provides utilities for interoperability. This paper discusses the Pilarcos open ecosystem architecture, and especially, its reflective infrastructure that supports runtime establishment of collaborations,...
The purpose of the article is to help the small and medium companies to solve some questions to set up the electronic business system based on the SaaS model and help them to break away from the effect of the financial crisis to develop the new market opportunity. The author analyzed the feasibility for the small and medium companies to set up the electronic business system and offered the four models...
With the rapid development of service outsourcing around the world, significance of human resource management outsourcing is also greatly highlighted. As one of the determinants on efficiency of outsourcing, outsourcing degree of human resource management is often considered key to success of human resource outsourcing. Based on theories of core competence, transaction cost economics and relational...
Coal resource plays an irreplaceable role in economy development, which decides the importance of coal mine investment. The influencing factors of coal mine investment are complicated and diversified, so the valuation should be flexible. In this paper, firstly, the concept and classification of real option are introduced. Then, combining to the compound binomial tree for stages, the principle and...
This paper reviews the literature and exhibits finding from case studies to provide a broad overview of learning and knowledge creation in the context of continual improvement. First, we describe Knowledge-Based View (KBV) theory and its application in the context of Continual Improvement (CI) initiatives such as Quality Control Circles (QCC), Kaizen, Business Process Engineering, and Six Sigma™ from...
A methodology is developed to quantify the financial risk for a multi-unit generation company with bilateral contracts in a competitive electricity market, using Value-at-Risk as a risk measure. A Monte Carlo simulation technique is used to calculate the Value-at-Risk by modeling different pricing scenarios, bids and schedules of generation. An artificial neural network is used to forecast hourly...
Medium-term electricity price forecasting is necessary for several applications in electricity markets, such as pricing derivatives, maintenance scheduling for generation companies, and budgeting and fuel contracting. However, this is a complex task because of the inherent dependence of price to other sometimes unpredictable variables, such as variations in availability of different supply resources...
IT Service Management (ITSM) is the set of processes that allow planning, organizing, directing and controlling the provisioning of IT services. Among the concerns of ITSM, namely within the service level management process, are the requirements for services availability, performance, accuracy, capacity and security, which are specified in terms of service-level agreements (SLA). SLA definition and...
Insurance is one of the highest investments by the VIPs, which constitute the main source of profits in the financial industry. With the rapid growth of the insurance informatization, IT outsourcing service is growing up increasingly in the insurance informatization construction of position. In order to obtain better risk assessment, combing with the mechanism research of insurance information technology...
BOT projects are affected by several risks and uncertainties. One of the most important issues in this type of contract is to determine the length of concession period considering these uncertainties. The previous studies have developed several models to determine the concession period. However, the uncertainties are not taking into account in most of the previous works. Moreover, none of the previous...
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