With the rapid development of express delivery industry, the service quality becomes a topic of interest for academic research. This paper extended the previous research by studying the learning effect in express delivery industry. We propose a two-period model to analyse how the learning effect...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have become a more and more important topic in the management and development of companies. Companies usually conduct M&A to preserve or extend their competitive advantages. However, M&As usually fail in real life. For the given bidder company, a critical step to...

Aggregate advertising models are functions reflecting the relationship between product sales and advertising expenditure for a market as a whole. In this paper, we proposed a new advertising response model based on consumer population dynamics. Considering that the population dynamics is one of...

A number of studies have used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the performance of the countries in the Olympic Games. In this paper, an extension tool of DEA, namely cross-efficiency evaluation method, is used to measure the performance of the nations participating in the Summer...