Two-sided platforms enable and supplement transactions between buyers and sellers. We consider a decision problem facing two such platform firms competing in a market. Each firm needs to divide its budget of a planning period between promotion towards attracting new sellers and new buyers. We...

Providing free primary care to everyone is an important goal pursued by many countries under universal health care programs. Countries like India need to efficiently utilize their limited capacities towards this purpose. Unfortunately, due to a variety of reasons, patients incur substantial...

What makes developing countries attractive for foreign direct investment (FDI)? Labour regulations are believed to be one of the major factors determining the level of FDI inflows to the developing countries. In order to allure the foreign investors, countries try to weaken labour rights, so...

Purpose: An amalgamation of Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytical Network Process (ANP) has been performed to develop a decision-making framework for improving the overall performance of the microfinance institutions. A primary survey was conducted to collect...

For business organizations, deriving sustainable competitive advantage from technology is impossible. Business analytics poses the same predicament that information technology (IT) did two decades back. The question is how to unlock the value from data on a sustainable manner. The learnings...

Purpose: The study aims to find out an appropriate volume of power to be procured through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs), the volume to be sourced from the power exchange through day-ahead and term-ahead options and also a suitable volume to be sold at different points of time...