The adoption rate of mobile payment technology is relatively low in the developing world, particularly in Jordan. The need to study why people in Jordan are unwilling to participate in its adoption is definitely imperative because the outcomes and conclusions of the current analysis could be thoughtfully and strategically utilized to improve and accelerate the adoption and diffusion of mobile p...

regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. with respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. for gene...

This paper deals with optimal dividend payment problem in the general setup of a piecewise-deterministic compound Poisson risk model. The objective of an insurance business under consideration is to maximize the expected discounted dividend payout up to the time of ruin. Both restricted and unrestricted payment schemes are considered. In the case of restricted payment scheme, the value function...

The ubiquitous payment problems within construction industry of China are notoriously hard to be resolved, thus lead to a series of impacts to the industry chain. Among of them, the most direct result is affecting the normal operation of contractors negatively. A wealth of research has already discussed reasons of the payment problems by introducing a number of possible improvement strategies. ...

The use of mobile payment (m-payment) is growing exponentially in developing countries. A small number investigations have been undertaken on what makes people continue to m-payment an African context. We combine the task technology fit (TTF) model, expectation-confirmation model (ECM), and trust dimension explain influence continuance m-payment. collected 384 valid questionnaire responses from...

We use model checking to establish five essential correctness properties of the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol. SET has been developed jointly by Visa and MasterCard as a method to secure payment card transactions over open networks, and industrial interest in the protocol is high. Our main contributions are to firstly create a formal model of the protocol capturing the purchase r...

Secure methods of payment are needed before we will see widespread commercial use of the Internet. Recently proposed and implemented payment methods follow one of three models: electronic currency, creditdebit, and secure credit card transactions. Such payment services have di erent strengths and weaknesses with respect to the requirements of of security, reliability, scalability, anonymity, ac...

Secure methods of payment are needed before we will see widespread commercial use of the Internet. Recently proposed and implemented payment methods follow one of three models: electronic currency, credit-debit, and secure credit card transactions. Such payment services have diierent strengths and weaknesses with respect to the requirements of of security, reliability , scalability, anonymity, ...

Any time money changes hands in health care, perverse consequences can result. This fact of financial life applies to the entire spectrum of payment options, including the 2 methodologies that define its extremes: fee for service potentially rewards clinicians for doing more than patients need, whereas capitation potentially rewards them for doing less. Pay for performance is an intermediate pa...

Reverse factoring—a financial arrangement where a corporation facilitates early payment of its trade credit obligations to suppliers—is increasingly popular in industry. Many firms use the scheme to induce their suppliers to grant them more lenient payment terms. By means of a periodic review base stock model that includes alternative sources of financing, we explore the following question: wha...