While remanufacturing is highly encouraged worldwide, some original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the electrical and electronics industry are still not willing to embrace remanufacturing, for fear of expensive investment or the cannibalization of existing products. Meanwhile, third-party remanufacturers’ (TPRs) remanufactured products are developing quickly. Due to quality reasons, consumer...

Building projects with private ownerss have high level of payment issues (late payment, underpayment, or non-payment). The purpose this study is to develop a risk-based contract management strategy avoid late from contractors. research data consisted literature reviews, questionnaires, and qualitative risk analyses. analyses identified 10 highest risks as the dominant factors 37 variables. resp...

(i) There is a delay by the intermediary in making payment to the SNF. (ii) Due to an exceptional situation, there is a temporary delay in the SNF’s preparation and submittal of bills to the intermediary beyond its normal billing cycle. (2) Approval of payment. An SNF’s request for an accelerated payment must be approved by the intermediary and HCFA. (3) Amount of payment. The amount of the acc...

Conflicts are unavoidable in the projects; there is no project that free from conflicts. At same time, sub-contracting has been, and continues to be a very important aspect building construction industry, as standard procedure construction. Thus, study aims at analyzing conflicts between main contractor domestic sub-contractors projects Tanzania. Qualitative quantitative approaches were employe...

Digital content transactions through e-commerce will grow tremendous in the coming years. Welldesigned electronic payment schemes and high-quality digital contents are two critical successful factors. This paper proposes an incentive-based electronic payment scheme, which can ensure both important properties of fair exchange and customer anonymity in e-commerce transactions and enhance authors’...

This article explores the theoretical and behavioral impact of conventional arbitration and final-offer arbitration (FOA) when parties are bargaining over an uncertain value. In this context, one player receives a fixed payment while the other player receives the uncertain residual. Although both forms of arbitration have identically sized contract zones, we show theoretically that in FOA the c...

We develop a stylized principal-agent model with moral hazard and adverse selection to provide a unified framework for understanding some of the most salient features of the recent physician payment reform in Ontario and its impact on physician behavior. These features include the following: (i) physicians can choose a payment contract from a menu that includes an enhanced fee-for-service contr...

On information security outsourcing market, an important reason that firms do not want to let outside firms(usually called MSSPs-Managed Security Service Providers) to take care of their security need is that they worry about service quality MSSPs provide because they cannot monitor effort of the MSSPs. Since MSSPs action is unobservable to buyers, MSSPs can lower cost by working less hard than...