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A Super Efficiency Model for Product Evaluation

Staat, Matthias; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2004

This study applies a Super Efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis model to evaluate the efficiency of cars sold on the German market. Efficiency is conceptualized from a customers' perspective as a ratio of outputs that customers obtain from a product relative to inputs that customers have to...

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Analyzing Product Efficiency – A Customer-Oriented Approach

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Staat, Matthias - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of this study is to provide a broader, economic perspective on customer value management. By developing an efficiency-based concept of customer value we aim at contributing to the presently underrepresented research field of marketing economics. The customer value concept is utilized...

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Value Based Benchmarking and Market Partitioning

Bauer, H. H.; Staat, M.; Hammerschmidt, M. - EconWPA - 2003

The paper offers an analytical approach for an integrated treatment of market partitioning and benchmarking within a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) framework. Based on an empirical example from the automotive industry we measure product effciency from the customer’s perspective. This is...

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STRUCTURING PRODUCT-MARKETS: AN APPROACH BASED ON CUSTOMER VALUE

Staat, Matthias; Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik - EconWPA - 2004

We offer an efficiency-based approach to derive market partitions and respective benchmarks using Data Envelopment Analysis. Product efficiency is measured as an output to input value from the customer’s perspective. Products offering a maximum customer value relative to alternatives represent...

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Effects of Functional Performance of Distribution Channels on Transactional Relationship in Mexican Market Environment

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2004

The performance related issues of buyer-distributor relationship have attracted both the academic and corporate managers. The study attempts to make theoretical contributions to the literature on relationships in marketing channels. Compared with the impact of the often-investigated construct of...

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Analyzing Product Efficiency – A Customer-Oriented Approach

Bauer, Hans H.; Hammerschmidt, Maik; Staat, Matthias - EconWPA - 2004

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Analysis of Customer Portfolio and Relationship Management Models : Bridging Managerial Dimensions

Rajagopal; Sanchez, Romulo - EconWPA - 2004

This paper broadly discusses the customer portfolio theories and their implications in reference to marketing and purchasing perspectives. It provides an insight into how marketers interpret and describe companies' actions. The central theme of the paper - the tools that can be used to...

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Influence of Brand Name in Variety Seeking Behavior of Consumers: An Empirical Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

The variety-seeking behavior and the brand choice among the consumers have been discussed extensively in the previous research contributions from the stochastic point of view. This study argues that although consumers are seeking novelty and unexpectedness in a brand that they have not bought...

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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom

Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education/training …

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to … identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on training participation, and the effect of training participation on … wages. We find that the training rate of workers just above 40 is about 15-20 percent higher than the training rate of …

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