The present paper presents a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In building up a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to manufacture and market the products. To support the decision-making process a semi-quantitative dimension is here added to the tra...

We explore the theoretical foundations of value creation in e-business by examining how 59 American and European e-businesses that have recently become publicly traded corporations create value. We observe that in e-business new value can be created by the ways in which transactions are enabled. Grounded in the rich data obtained from case study analyses and in the received theory in entreprene...

Virtual co-creation is a tool which assists marketers in better recognizing customers’ needs and in increasing new products success rates. Despite the importance of co-creation in new product development, little empirical research is being conducted in order to clarify the concept. Studies are mostly company centric, overlooking consumer’s value perception of co-creation and how it affects his ...

It’s conceptually attractive to look for connection between performance, HRM and economic situation. How measure epiphenomenon’s impact when we can’t isolate that from global strategy? If casual relations maybe established, event can be interpreted in several ways (e.g. its chicken and egg situation...). This paper presents the results of a research on corporate performance measured by the crea...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between Equity Market Value (EMV) and measures of creation value of the performance evaluation (Shareholder Value Added (SVA) and Created Shareholder Value (CSV)) in Tehran Stock Exchange. Thus this paper examined the creation value in Iranian Companies by Alfred Rappaport model and to assess the relationship, liner regression tests w...

The present research carried out to study the relationship of market orientation and innovation and their effect on entrepreneurship and value creation for customers. To do so, as the sample was unlimited, 241 active companies in agriculture and food industry were selected as the samples by random sampling method. Via standard questionnaire, we gathered data on managers and senior experts' opin...

Apple Inc. is a global technology business headquartered in Cupertino, California. It leader consumer devices, software, and internet services. Their success has been attributed to variety of factors. One them the way created captured values. The case study uses 30 “elements value” framework from Almquist, Senior, & Bloch (2016)’s outstanding paper “The Elements Value: Measuring Delivering ...

Humility is key to public value, so courage. For me, this the message of Prebble’s stimulating article. It comes at a good time, when value thinking well-established, theorizing about it differentiates into more or less normative schools thought and empirical research on its way—normal science as one could say. I read Mark’s argument wake-up call take process-oriented level reflect chances risk...