AbstractAs businesses confront the challenges and opportunities of the digital era, they should look deeply at their assumptions about the basic social contract and value propositions that drive customer relationships, and how they center on price and value. Businesses still set prices unilaterally, in advance, with little regard for customer differences in needs, usage, or Read More …
AbstractUsing data from U.S. corporate tax returns, which provide a sample representative of the universe of U.S. corporations, we investigate the differential investment propensities of public and private firms. Re-weighting the data to generate observationally comparable sets of public and private firms, we find robust evidence that public firms invest more overall, particularly in R&D. Read More …
AbstractThe emergence of the quaternary sector has given rise to the knowledge based economy, which has led to a huge market for intangible assets or Intellectual Capital (IC). The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) on IT firms’ profitability for the time period of 2011 to Read More …
Institutions are an outcome of a leader’s dream, vision and strategy. In the context of knowledge organizations like educational institutions, which involve talent management, its intangibility, values and culture define the institution. These characteristics differentiate it from all other forms of organization. For example, the culture of collegiality and consensus building helps in making a Read More …
Abstract By understanding the customer asset and managing customers as strategic assets, the firm can increase shareholder value. ‘Customer Equity’ is the overall value of the firm’s current customers and the firm’s prospective customers. This implies that marketing investments must be made in customer equity. Return on marketing investments is becoming increasingly important for making Read More …
Abstract The relation between income and consumption has been observed by economists for a long time. However, J K Keneys, for the first time, studied the theoretical level of the consumption behaviour and proposed Absolute Income Hypothesis (AIH) from The General Theory according to which the current consumption expenditure mainly depends on current income. India, Read More …
Abstract This research aims to inspect the role of absorptive capacity in connecting green supply chain management (GSCM) practices, responsive strategy (RS) and supply chain performance (SCP) by utilising the information processing theory (IPT). Data was collected from 57 textile organisations in Pakistan and partial least square of structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) is employed to Read More …
Abstract The aim of this study is to determine social loafing perceptions of employees in the same organisational climate related to co-workers and is to determine its effects on employees’ feeling of burnout. Relying on this goal, data has been obtained by face-to-face survey method from 108 employees who work in a public institution in Read More …
Abstract This study seeks to use the concept of Data Envelopment Analysis for setting benchmarks of efficiency using two inputs and two outputs. In the process, the study highlights the inherent contradictions in the application. In case of deficient divisions, instead of increasing the inputs to better the output, the DEA analysis recommends reducing the Read More …
