In light of the organizational dynamics services economic interest, regulation municipal solid waste management is a critical issue to deal with so as achieve sustainability goals in coming decades. The European circular economy targets limit share landfills maximum 10% by 2035. Consequently, waste-to-energy plants may temporarily become primary option for residual unsorted waste. chain compris...

Background: An influential piece of literature on effective altruism insists that not-for-profit organizations (NFPs) should concentrate their investments a few activities to maximize social return investment (SROI) ratio. However, this creates greater risk for an NFP than building portfolio in activities. This study investigates whether it is desirable executives an...

Firms are increasingly personalising their offers and services, leading to an ever finer-grained segmentation of consumers online. Targeted online advertising price discrimination salient examples this development. While personalisation's overall effects on consumer welfare expectably ambiguous, it can lead concentration in the distribution commercial offers. Constellations possible which a mar...

Livestock markets are characterised by imperfections, distortions, and efficiency problems that impact livestock marketing. The purpose of this research was to analyse the sheep goat marketing system in Benin using structure-conduct-performance (SCP) approach. Primary data were collected from 215 small ruminant traders selected 21 calculate market concentration degree, margin, efficiency. four ...

BACKGROUND This research evaluates the effect of hospital competition on inward and outward patient transfers for different types of payers including the uninsured. Although it is a less spotlighted issue, an equally important topic is the likelihood of inter-hospital patient transfers of the insured and the uninsured. This study attempts to fill a gap in the research about the relationship bet...

If managers maximize the payoffs of their shareholders rather than firm profits, then it may be anticompetitive for a shareholder to own competing firms. This is because a manager’s objective function may place weight on profits of competitors who are held by the same shareholder. Recent research found evidence that common ownership by diversified institutional investors is anticompetitive by s...

Ethnic diversity is typically measured by the well-known Hirschman-Herfindahl Index. This paper discusses the merits of an alternative approach, which is in our view better suited to tease out why and how ethnic diversity matters. The approach consists of two elements. First, all existing diversity indices are non-relational. From the viewpoint of theoretical accounts that attribute negative di...

This chapter addresses a fundamental question in the antitrust law of horizontal mergers. Namely, does an increase in seller concentration increase the price in a market? The question and its affirmative answer constitute the price-concentration hypothesis. First, the chapter places the hypothesis in the context of horizontal merger policy, explaining that the role of seller concentration in an...

Consistent terminology can positively influence communication, information transfer, and proper understanding. In multilingual written communication processes, challenges are augmented due to translation variants. The main aim of this study was implement the Herfindahl-Hirshman Index (HHI) for assessment translated in parallel corpora evaluation terminology. This research conducted on three typ...