Enhancing the speed and competition in an exhibition of services and products motivated the companies to provide high-quality products to the customers. One of the effective strategies to reach these goals is to create working groups. These groups can help the companies to improve the quality and exposure of their services along with reducing the costs. This approach is applicable in the health...

Industrial sustainability is an important attribute and becomes a parameter of the business success. Quality improvement with indicator increasing process capability will affect productivity improvements lead to industrial competitiveness maintain sustainability. The purpose this paper obtain relationship between consistency DMAIC phase increase sigma level in This applied for systematic litera...

This article examined the physician-patient agency relationship in the context of the prescription drug market in Japan. In this market, physicians often both prescribe and dispense drugs and can pocket profits in so doing. A concern is that, due to the incentive created by the mark-up, physicians' prescription decisions may be distorted. Empirical results using anti-hypertensive drugs suggest ...

The relationship of hospital ownership and service composition to hospital charges was examined for 456 general acute hospitals in California. Ancillary services had higher profit margins, both gross and net profits, than daily hospital services. Ancillary services accounted for 55.3 percent of total patient revenue. Charges per day were 23 percent higher for ancillary services than for daily h...

Incentives to vertically integrate are studied in an industry where downstream firms are vertically differentiated. Vertical integration by one of the firms increases production costs for the rival. Increased production costs impact quality investment both by the integrated firm and the unintegrated rival. A firm, integrating first, always produces the high quality good and earns higher profits...

Distribution of distributed generation resources in distribution systems has several advantages, including reducing losses, improving voltage profiles, reducing pollution, and increasing system reliability. However, one of the most important points regarding the placement of these resources in distribution networks is economic issues and the return on investment and the increase in profits from...

BACKGROUND Malaysia's stable health care system is facing challenges with increasing medicine costs. To investigate these issues a survey was carried out to evaluate medicine prices, availability, affordability, and the structure of price components. METHODS AND FINDINGS The methodology developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Action International (HAI) was used. Price and ...

Abstract Legume seed systems in many developing countries are characterized by low availability of certified seeds because the private sector is often absent, and public has limited capacity to produce such seeds. Farmer enterprises (FSEs) therefore increasingly promoted as alternative suppliers some instances, quality declared truthfully labelled In this study, we assess commercial viability F...

Newspapers has shown steep decline of circulation and advertising revenue in the west. Online advertising is taking away the majority of advertising revenue from print Increasing printing costs also a major concern for the decline of profits of newspapers. Asian countries like Japan, China and India is not seeing any immediate threat for daily newspapers as these countries are dominated by vern...

We study oligopoly price competition between multiproduct firms, firms whose products interact in the profit function. Specifically, we focus on the impact of intra-firm product interactions on the level of equilibrium profits. This impact is divided into two effects: a direct effect and a strategic effect (i.e., through the competitors’ actions). We derive conditions such that the strategic ef...