making an informed decision with regards to a suitable business location or site selection for organizations is becoming challenging for business decision makers globally; and even more challenging in business environment that are saddled with uncertainties. the continues raise of multiple criteria variation of site preferences has also necessitated the application of advanced decision making t...

By bringing together large numbers of buyers and sellers and automating transactions, eMarketplaces expand the choices available to buyers, give sellers access to new customers (buyers), and reduce transaction costs for all participants. Business environment factors, how an organization does business, have an influence on the organization’s decision about adopting eMarketplace activities. In so...

Abstract Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to joinin a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a greatimpact on Firm’sstrategic partnering and success in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chai...

The theory of the optimal allocation of risk and the Townsend Thai panel data on financial transactions are used to assess the impact of the major formal and informal financial institutions of an emerging market economy. We link financial institution assessment to the actual impact on clients, rather than ratios and non-performing loans. We derive both consumption and investment equations from ...

As is the case with traditional markets, the sellers on the Internet do not usually know the demand functions of their customers. However, in such a digital environment, a seller can experiment different prices in order to maximize his profits. In this paper, we develop a dynamic pricing model to solve the pricing problem of a Web-store, where seller sets a fixed price and buyer either accepts ...

Over the last three decades, advances in information technology have improved banks’ efficiency of credit scoring/rating. I infer that the technology of credit rating improves by 45% from 1990 to 2007. I evaluate the effects of this technological improvement on the US commercial banking market with a dynamic, quantitative model. In the model, banks have an economy of scale at utilizing new tech...