Over the past two decades, organizational researchers have used and assessed the effectiveness of various Internet tools for conducting surveys. The various Internet tools used included email, the Web, and a combination of email and the Web. As with any evolving data collection tool, the use of various Internet tools must be carefully examined. This paper presents an overview of major issues th...

Credit-based electronic payment systems are considered to play important roles in future automated payment systems. Like most other types of payment systems, however, credit-based systems proposed so far generally involve computationally expensive cryptographic operations. Such a relatively heavy computational load is preventing credit-based systems from being used in applications which require...

Online payments are a critical issue in electronic markets. This research investigates online payment choices using probit and nested logit model based on the survey data we collected from eBay users. We develop a theoretical framework to model payment choices between the trader partners based on risk, convenience and cost dimensions. Then, we analyze how product attributes, traders’ characteri...

Releasing prices and performing cash subsidy payment to all applicants with a different income level create differences in the method of household function and different services of organizations including waste and recycling management organization. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cash subsidy payment on the quantity of domestic waste in Rasht (Guilan province, Iran)....

Prospective payment encourages managed care organizations to select low-risk patients. This article models an entitlement program utilizing patient-level competitive bidding to mitigate risk selection. Three mechanisms are tested: uniform payment, pure bidding, and a mix of payment and bidding. Results show selection always occurs under optimal uniform payment, but never under either bidding me...

The considerable increase of mobile device users in recent years causes a strong demand on secured wireless information services and reliable mobile commerce (m-commerce) applications. Since mobile payment (m-payment) is a critical part of most wireless information services and mobile commerce applications, how to build secured m-payment systems becomes a research hotspot. This paper presents a...

Some retail payment systems can be modelled as two-sided markets, where a payment system facilitates money exchanges between consumers on one side and merchants on the other. The system sets rules and standards, to ensure usage and acceptance of its payment instruments by consumers and merchants respectively. Some retail payment systems exhibit indirect network externalities, which is one of th...

There is considerable interest in examining how Medicaid payment affects nursing home care. This study examines the effect of Medicaid payment methods and reimbursement rates on the delivery of rehabilitation therapy to Medicaid nursing home residents in six States from 1992-1995. In States that changed payment from prospective facility-specific to prospective case-mix adjusted payment methods,...

An economic order quantity model with backordering is investigated under a hybrid payment scheme. The payment scheme, which is also linked to order quantity, involves multiple advance payments as well as delayed payment. Incorporating this payment scheme can efficiently stimulate sales due to applying delayed payment; besides it provides the benefits of advance payment such as controlling the r...

Background The High Risk Foot Clinic at Liverpool Hospital has employed a standardised system for monitoring the progress of ulcers of the feet since January 2010. A form is completed for each patient with fields for identification, clinical photograph, and clinical details. The forms are reviewed for all patients under current treatment at a weekly meeting. We reviewed the foot ulcer progress ...