This study investigates how the number of product categories moderates the effects of consumers’ satisfaction with order procurement and order fulfillment on their repurchase intention at online retail stores. We collected empirical data from an online rating website and constructed a...

Problem Definition: Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is an important policy instrument to address environmental risks in solid waste disposal. Whether EPR incentivizes a producer's eco-innovation is an ongoing debate among operations researchers and policymakers. Our research builds on a...

This study examines the impact of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) on the performance of mobile network operators (MNOs) in the presence of overlapping generations of wireless mobile technologies (2G and 3G). MVNOs distribute MNOs’ mobile services to customers without owning any...

This research finds that firm-specific experience significantly reduces analyst forecast accuracy, indicating the existence of “catering” behavior by which analysts issue favorable forecasts for the listed companies they have long-time relationships. Heterogeneity analysis finds out that the...

This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and provide benefit to non-OPEC countries provided jointly agreed trigger strategies are adhered to. In traditional economic theory, the primary purpose of a carbon tax is to internalize...

The widespread implementation of customer relationship management (CRM) technologies in business has allowed companies to increasingly focus on both acquiring and retaining customers. The challenge of designing incentive mechanisms that simultaneously focus on customer acquisition and customer...

This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of significant global carbon emissions reduction and the potential impacts of proposals now circulating for carbon reduction motivated geographical trade arrangements, including...