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Card Acceptance and Surcharging: the Role of Costs and Competition

Jonker, Nicole - In: Review of Network Economics 10 (2011) 2

The payment cards market is a two-sided market. Cost sensitivity of both consumers and merchants for card services … influences total demand. Survey data of Dutch merchants shows that costs and cost perception affect acceptance as well as … surcharging decisions. Merchants who find payment cards expensive are less likely to accept them and more likely to surcharge …

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Economics in World History: Two Success Stories

Ellington, Lucien; McCoy, M. A. - In: Social Studies Research and Practice 7 (2012) 1, pp. 82-95

The objective of this essay is to assist secondary school world history teachers in helping students develop an understanding basic economic concepts through learning about two successful pre-industrialized economies: The Florentine Republic and Tokugawa Japan. We includes a short introduction...

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Interset Association between Measures of Customer Service and Market Response

Mohan Pisharodi, R.; Langley, C. John - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 21 (1991) 2, pp. 32-44

Customer service is often described as consisting of a set of measurable elements. Similarly, market response to customer service may be viewed as consisting of a set of components which are measurable. Most published empirical studies of the relationship between customer service and market...

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Physical distribution organization and information systems development: their status among American business firms

Lancioni, Richard; Grashof, John - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 27 (1997) 5/6, pp. 265-273

Reveals that physical distribution organization and information system development among US manufacturing firms is still in a period of transmission. Concludes that many problems have arisen because of the move towards the formalization of physical distribution management as an integral part of...

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Customer Service in Physical Distribution: The Dimensions and Some Strategies for Achieving Them

Johnston, M. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 21 (1991) 5, pp. 38-42

Practical issues of customer service within a distribution environment are reviewed, with particular reference to the development of a structured approach to achieving satisfactory, co‐ordinated and competitive levels of performance from the organisation as a whole. Some common management...

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Transport Selection: Computer Modelling in a Spreadsheet Environment

Tyworth, John E. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 21 (1991) 7, pp. 28-36

Trade‐offs among logistics cost and service elements often make transport selection analysis difficult, especially when demand is uncertain and carriers offer different rates and services. The spreadsheet environment offers a powerful, manager‐friendly medium for analysing these...

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Cost Minimisation of Multiple‐vehicle Shipments

Haessler, Robert W. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 21 (1991) 7, pp. 37-41

Describes how an LP‐based one‐dimensional packing algorithm can be used to minimise costs in three different multiple‐vehicle shipment planning problems. The three applications considered are: (1) shipping industrial trucks by container when weight is the dominant constraint; (2) shipping...

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Realignment of the physical distribution process in omni-channel fulfillment

Ishfaq, Rafay; Defee, C. Clifford; Gibson, Brian J; … - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 46 (2016) 6/7, pp. 543-561

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the realignment of the physical distribution process for store-based retailers in their efforts to integrate the online channel into their business model. Multiple attributes of the physical distribution process are evaluated to identify...

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The perceived impact of packaging logistics on the efficiency of freight transportation (EOT)

Kye, Dongmin; Lee, Jeongeun; Lee, Kang‐Dae - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 43 (2013) 8, pp. 707-720

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the perceived impact of packaging logistics on the efficiency of freight transportation (EOT), and examine the interaction and relationship between packaging logistics and EOT. Design/methodology/approach – The paper set up the conceptual model with seven...

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Benchmarking of health technologies distribution models

Creazza, Alessandro; Restelli, Umberto; Porazzi, Emanuele; … - In: Benchmarking: An International Journal 23 (2016) 4, pp. 817-842

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a benchmarking framework for assessing the performance of the distribution models adopted by the local branches of National Health Services (NHSs) for delivering health technologies to patients at a local level, and to derive prescriptions for...

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