Purpose The importance of the supply network to firm performance is well documented. Until now, and its suppliers have been conceptualized as single entities. Yet, multinational corporations (MNCs) are composed a complex, geographically dispersed internal subsidiaries. networks inherently linked. purpose this study investigate impact interaction these on firm-level financial performance. Design...

All of the possible strategies to reduce water losses in piped distribution systems follow law diminishing returns: higher expenditure on loss reduction, lower progressive return terms saved. Therefore, utilities need estimate economic level (ELWL) so that they can their where cost is equal value This paper aims ELWL using four different methods: total method, marginal cumulative cost–benefit a...

Abstract Does enhanced descriptive representation lead to substantive representation? Legislators who share features with disadvantaged groups do not necessarily represent their group interests. Instead, Members of Parliament (MPs) strategically choose when engage the policy topic corresponding groups. MPs respective at beginning career because it confers credibility they have no legislative tr...

This paper proposes a method to design variable fractional-delay (FD) filters using the Farrow structure. In the transfer function of the Farrow structure, different subfilters are weighted by different powers of the FD value. As both the FD value and its powers are smaller than 0.5, our proposed method uses them as diminishing weighting functions. The approximation error, for each subfilter, i...

In this article, we investigate different market structures where decision makers are incentivized by both profit and revenue. Our innovation is that consider managers evaluate revenue in a non-linear way, exhibiting diminishing marginal utility. This implies incremental changes revenue—for example, due to demand shocks—generate production choices depend on the existing base of firm. We show in...

By crawling Meituan take-out merchant data, this paper studies the influence of e-commerce platform merchants’ reputation on consumer decision making. The empirical results show that based overall score merchants has a significant impact consumers’ purchase and then affects monthly sales volume merchants. At same time, brand have higher than ordinary merchants, series food safety guarantee meas...