services companies attempt to promote their delivered services to customers and achieve a stable competitive advantage. for achieving this goal, marketing and hr scholars jointly propose application of internal marketing (im) principles and instruments. although im is a 30 years old concept in management, but it's measurement and application method have faced with different structural and ...

Register files account for a significant fraction of the power dissipation in modern RISC processors. Register file banking is an effective alternative to monolithic register files in embedded systems. We propose a profile-based technique to arrive at a customized energy-efficient bank configuration for a given application on a dual bank register file. The technique consists of a register renam...

Modern financial market places are the most competitive and most dynamic ones in all of the history wherefore especially market risk management is a vital task in the financial services industry. Since market risk management is a compute and resource-intensive process, Grid applications seem to be a promising solution to meet the tremendous calculation demand in the financial services industry ...

An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital in the sense that traditional measures of TFP growth reflect unmeasured improvements in the quality of capital inputs as well as pure disembodied technological progress. It is commonly believed that an implication of this embodiment hypothesis is that there should be a negative ...

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Banks supply payment services that underpin the smooth operation of the economy. To ensure an effi cient payment system, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers, but data available to gauge the degree of competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank-provided payment services. Billion dollar b...

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This paper constructs a new measure of output for Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) over the period 1986 to 1999. This flow measure of bank value added follows from a unified model of bank operation that integrates theories of production, financial intermediation, and asset pricing. The primary contribution of the model is to demonstrate how one should account for risk when measuring the value adde...

Chapter Objectives 1. To understand the development of convergence as a concept and its interconnection with earlier business activities 2. To understand the complexity of business model concept 3. To understand that business models in modern businesses presume convergence of technology, stakeholders and value creation 4. To be able to create an appropriate business model for a convergence-base...