The paper examines government IT outsourcing polices. The paper critiques the concept of ‘the Contract State’, and suggests how more disciplined uses of outsourcing can assist the creation of public value, more broadly conceived. Within the context of international developments, we study the United Kingdom Inland Revenue (IR), Customs and Excise (HMRC) and Department of Social Security (DSS) an...

Daily-deal business model is a type of performance-based advertising wherein a publisher provides advertising space to a merchant who pays a proportion of revenue generated on the website to the publisher. We develop a two-period model to capture the strategic interaction between a publisher and a merchant where consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay for quality and awareness a...

Timber transportation is an essential and often unprofitable segment of the wood supply chain. This study evaluated profitability individual timber deliveries for log truck owners in US South. Origin destination data were collected from 909 257 harvest sites. Travel time distance estimated using ArcGIS GPS tracking. Monte Carlo Simulation was used to calculate 1000 unique combinations payload, ...

The research presented in this article is a significant extension of data for company management boards, enabling them to make the right investment decisions at very preliminary stage preparation. randomized method estimating net present value construction projects efficiency allows assess profitability under random implementation conditions. probability and severity disturbances are estimated....

background: measurement of gross , gross activities, and cosmogenic beryllium-7 (7be) concentrations were made both daily and weekly during the years 2001- 2004 from samples of atmospheric aerosols filtered from the air at tehran nuclear research center (35 41' n) and zahedan (28 29' n). materials and methods: weekly aerosol samples were collected with the high-volume air samplers on ...

the study investigates the impact of taxation on the nigerian economy for the period 1994 -2012.the dependent variables used in the model includes: gross domestic product (gdp) as a parameter for measuring economic growth, inflation and unemployment. the objective is this study is to determine how taxation affects these macroeconomic variables. to avoid spurious results, the data set collected ...

In this paper, we analyze cost sharing problems arising from a general service by explicitly taking into account the generated revenues. To this cost-revenue sharing problem, we associate a cooperative game with transferable utility, called cost-revenue game. By considering cooperation among the agents using the general service, the value of a coalition is defined as the maximum net profit that...

This paper reports on the results of an experiment testing whether the agents selfselect between a competitive payment scheme and a revenue-sharing scheme depending on their inequity aversion. Average efficiency should be increased when these payment schemes are endogenously chosen by agents. We show that the choice of the competition is negatively affected by disadvantageous inequity aversion ...

As the construction industry is becoming more large-scaled and complex, the BIM technology has been utilized throughout the industry. Since 2008, the construction industry in South Korea (Korea) has required carrying on BIM-based project continually. According to this trend, BIM S/W market, as well as BIM library market is also gradually activated. Many countries have already been establishing ...