Demand shifting is a popular strategy among service providers for managing demand. The strategy tries to shift demand from peak time periods, where capacity constraints are binding, to offpeak time periods when we have excess capacity. Examples include cities shifting rush hour traffic by having employers staggering work hours; electrical utilities giving their customers timers to shift the sta...

Enterprises in a tourism supply chain (TSC) often optimize their businesses by adopting and operating profit or revenue maximization strategies. This paper investigates the conditions under which these strategies are preferred. We consider a TSC consisting of three sectors: a theme park operator, tour operators and accommodation providers. Simultaneous non-cooperative games are used as decision...

Market-oriented health care reforms have been implemented in the tax-financed Swedish health care system from 1990 to 2013. The first phase of these reforms was the introduction of new public management systems, where public health centers and public hospitals were to act as private firms in an internal health care market. A second phase saw an increase of tax-financed private for-profit provid...

Cloud computing provides a flexible infrastructure for IT industries to run their High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Cloud providers deliver such computing infrastructures through a set of data centers called a cloud federation. The data centers of a cloud federation are usually distributed over the world. The profit of cloud providers strongly depends on the cost of energy consumpt...

BACKGROUND In many low and middle income countries, the private sector is increasingly becoming an important source of health care, filling gaps where no or little public health care is available. However, knowledge on the private sector providers is limited The objective of this study was to determine the type and number of different types of health care providers, and the quality, cost and ut...

The national health services (NHS) of England, Portugal, Finland and other single-payer universalist systems financed by general taxation, are based on the theoretical principle of an integrated public sector payer-provider. However, in practice one can find different forms of participation of non-public healthcare providers in those NHS, including private for profit providers, but also third s...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers. In 2012, more than one-third of participants in adult day services centers were younger than 65. A higher percentage of participants in nonprofit centers than in for-profit centers were younger than 65. About one-half of participants in adult day services centers were non-Hispanic white persons. A higher percentage of partic...

Abstract The marketisation of European home care has given rise to significant private for-profit providers growth. However, little research focused directly on commercial companies examine the mechanisms through which they emerge, grow and shape long-term policy – this is paper’s task. Drawing literature business power, recent concept “institutional power” introduced, defined as power flowing ...