Introduction -- Part I: Service Demand of Consumers -- Part II: Cost Analyses for Congestion-Prone Service Systems … between capacity and throughput, and service quality competition. To accommodate these features, a series of new decision …-making theorems for consumers and suppliers is developed. The resulting demand and cost functions incorporate service time as the …

and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Received wisdom is that Research and Development is essential not … scholars to analyze the importance of education, research and human capital and the impact of financial systems on growth and …

theory approach it develops a model of how companies in technology intensive industries can improve the appropriation of the …

to construct relevant input variables, such as latent demand and customer price sensitivity. He proves that the …

Classification Approaches to Identify Intermittent Demand Series -- Consistent Forecast-Based Inventory Model … probability distribution by assuming an integer-valued autoregressive process as demand process. The developed algorithms can be … used to identify, estimate, and predict the demand as well as optimize the inventory decision of intermittent demand series …

theory is applied to integrate long-run decisions and different types of demand into the analysis. Aside from its …Dynamic oligopolistic competition has implications both for the strategic management of firms and for the design of an … effective competition policy. Consequently, the present book considers the issue from a private and social perspective. It …

for developing countries. Their research addresses such questions as: Do innovations advance the competitive positions of …