The authors extend transaction cost analysis into a governance value analysis (GVA) framework to address marketing strategy decisions, especially with regard to strategies grounded in cooperative relationships. The GVA is a four-part model. Heterogeneous resources, positioning, the consequent attributes of exchange, and governance form all interact to determine success in creating and claiming ...

Foresight scenarios indicated already in the late 1990’s that mobile commerce would become significant. The reasoning is simple: the rapid development of mobile technology will drive a growing mobile services industry which will be an integral and growing part of mobile commerce revenues. However, the adoption of new mobile services has been much slower than expected. Basic services such as SMS...

This paper seeks to present a methodology to assess performance and to provide management decision support. A “management by value streams” model was developed to assess company performance. It was implemented to support decision-making at an industrial company. The idea behind the model is that products or services should continually flow in the organization, as values streams. The model inclu...

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate effectiveness of a firm’s 5-year strategy toward improving well-being while lowering health care costs amidst adoption of a Consumer-Driven Health Plan. Methods: Repeated measures statistical models were employed to test and quantify association between key demographic factors, employment type, year, individual wellbeing, and outcomes of hea...

e live in a period of heightened uncertainty. Our current business environment is being shaped by large-scale and long-term trends, such as deregulation and Robert Merton in 1973. Another early and consistent advocate of this way of thinking has been Stewart Myers, the MIT finance professor who coined the term “real options” in an article published in 1984. In that article, Myers went so far as...

An appropriate mesh selection strategy is one of the fundamental tools in designing robust codes for differential problems, especially if the codes are required to work for difficult multi scale problems. Most of the existing codes base the mesh selection on an estimate of the error (or the residual). Our strategy, based on the estimation of two parameters characterizing the conditioning of the...

Business analytics systems can potentially contribute to firm performance and create competitive advantage. However, these benefits do not always follow from investment in business analytics technology. This paper argues that dynamic capabilities, enabled by business analytics technology, lead to value-creating actions and ultimately to improved firm performance. We develop a theoretical model ...

Addressing Patients’ Priorities as a Strategy to Improve Value YU-NING WONG, NANCY ROACH, NEAL J. MEROPOL FoxChaseCancerCenter,TempleUniversityHealthSystem,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA; FightColorectalCancer,Alexandria,Virginia, USA; University Hospitals ClevelandMedical Center Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, CaseWestern Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Disclo...

Long-term predictions are indispensable for planning and strategy. Yet little is known about their value, their limitations or the most appropriate way of making and using them. This paper examines these issues and proposes two approaches to long-term forecasting while illustrating their use •to planning and strategy. The first approach consists of identifying and extrapolating critical long te...