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This paper studies content strategies for online publishers of digital information goods. It examines sampling … strategies and compares their performance to paid content and free content strategies. A sampling strategy, where some of the … industry. We analyze optimal decisions concerning the size of the sample and the price of the paid content when sampling serves …
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Positive estimators of the between-group (between-study) variance are proposed. Explicit variance formulae for the estimators are given and approximate confidence intervals for the between-group variance are constructed, as our proposal to a long outstanding problem. By Monte Carlo simulation,...
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Garantir ao consumidor final produtos com qualidade, em especial produtos seguros do ponto de vista de saúde humana, é uma questão de sobrevivência e de competitividade dos agentes ligados à cadeia de produção de amendoim e derivados. Sendo assim, esses agentes devem adequar as suas...
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The paper shows that a successful sale of a product is determined not only by the quality but also by the country-specific differences in the field of quality management. Although these criteria are world-wide similar, the priorities are national defined differently. Being an essential component...
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Competitiveness is linked to the consumer guarantee of a safe product that satisfies his/her necessities, as well as to the efficiency of the managing and operational practices which aim at reducing costs and losses in the whole chain. This work contributes by analyzing quality management...
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A company's quality performance is necessarily dependent on its internal quality control and improvement efforts, but also subject to reliable delivery of high quality materials and parts from suppliers. This study identifies four key practices in quality-focused supplier relation and...
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More than ever customer satisfaction has become a key factor for all industry and business enterprises. The article explains about the customers satisfaction esspecialy in the textile industry. First part presents the concept of customer satisfaction and its place in current management models...
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Management control in training institutions is still a missing topic in theoretical and empirical management control research. Therefore the following article presents a framework of management control in training institutions based on the main terms discussed in this context. To illustrate and...
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Der Beitrag behandelt die erst kürzlich in der Zeitschrift Die Betriebswirtschaft durch Haller (2004) aufgeworfene Frage, ob und inwiefern ein funktionierendes Qualitätsmanagement Einfluss auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit von deutschen Unternehmen nimmt. Konkret wird im Rahmen einer empirischen...
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Windstorms generate windfalls that may lead to price decreases. Studies have often focused on stochastic growth and price, but considered that the link between these two risks was generally nil. In our model, we assume that storms generate windfalls and that these windfalls have an impact on...
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