In two-sided networks, two parties interact on a platform, caring about the numbers of subjects on the other side. A typical problem, in this context, is setting prices for network services so as to get “both side on boards”. The standard approach in the literature considers the network’s ability to convince both sides to join the network, whereas this paper consider an alternative setting, in ...

More and more firms urge their procurement departments to optimize their processes and leverage IT in order to reduce costs, increase quality and sustainability of received products and services, and shorten delivery times. Already in the nineties of the previous century Henderson and Venkatraman (IBM Systems Journal 32(1):4–16, 1993) identified business/IT-alignment as a key to organizational ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the financial impact of medicine procurement with the required bioavailability and or bioequivalence tests for the basic pharmaceutical services component. METHODS A retrospective study, based on document research of competitive bidding for medicine procurement in a medium size municipality of Santa Catarina state, Southern Brazil. Bids that occurred with (2007) and witho...