this study presents a detailed analysis of cost management for intensive cultivation activity in terms of tomato production. the main objective was to provide qualitative and quantitative costs obtained in the intensive cultivation of tomato. this methodology was structured by activity costs (soil preparation and planting, crop monitoring, harvesting, selling, etc.) through a study in greenhous...

Public authorities in many jurisdictions are concerned about the proliferation of illegal content and products on online platforms. In this paper, we provide an economic appraisal platform liability that highlights effects a stricter rule several key variables such as prices, terms conditions, business models, investments. We also discuss impact regime applying to platforms competition between ...

Performance appraisal of employee is important in managing the human resource of an organization. With the change towards knowledge-based capitalism, maintaining talented knowledge workers is critical. However, management classification of “outstanding”, “poor” and “average” performance may not be an easy decision. Besides that, superior might also tend to judge the work performance of their su...

African-American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than are White women but are more likely to be adversely affected. Although differences in incidence and mortality have been explored in some depth, little attention has been paid to how these women cope with the disease or whether their appraisal of their breast cancer differs from that of White women. Using a comparativ...

Purpose Robotic process automation (RPA) has recently emerged as a technology focusing on the of repetitive, frequent, voluminous and rule-based tasks. Despite few practical examples that document successful RPA deployments in organizations, evidence its economic benefits been mostly anecdotal. The purpose this paper is to present step-by-step method investment appraisal business case demonstra...

In Multi-user Feedback support system or 360 0 Feedback, data on the performance of an individual are collected systematically from a number of stakeholders and are used for improving performance. The 360 0 Feedback approach provides a consistent management philosophy meeting the criterion outlined previously. The 360 0 feedback based appraisal is a comprehensive method where in the feedback ab...

Research on social learning has focused traditionally on whether animals possess the cognitive ability to learn novel motor patterns from tutors. More recently, social learning has included the use of others as sources of inadvertent social information. This type of social learning seems more taxonomically widespread and its use can more readily be approached as an economic decision. Social sam...

BACKGROUND The bivariate relationships between 18 health-related measures on a health appraisal and prospective medical claims costs were examined among 1,838 employees for three consecutive years. METHODS Employees were classified into high- or low-risk categories for each of the 18 health-related measures, and divided into high- or low-cost categories according to their averaged three-year ...

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, the income equivalent of health satisfaction changes is es...