One of the challenges facing the networking industry today is to increase the profitability of service providers. This calls for economic mechanisms that can enable providers to charge more for better services and collect a fair share of the resulting increased revenue. In this paper we present a generic model for pricing Internet services in a multi-provider network. We show that non-cooperati...

The government continues to strive optimize tax revenue, but the revenue target has not been achieved due various reasons, one of which is evasion. research objective examine relationship between profitability, year pandemic, and financial distress on avoidance. population all issuers listed Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2018-2021 period. number samples used 748 companies with purposive sampl...

While there is growing consensus on the benefits of going green, relative revenue-enhancing and cost-cutting effects environmental practices over performance have remained a more conservative less explored phenomenon in corporate management studies. The present study investigates two parallel mediation cost-saving revenue generation profitability through practices. A bootstrap method employed t...

Recommender Systems (RS) play a vital role in applications such as e-commerce and on-demand content streaming. Research on RS has mainly focused on the customer perspective, i.e., accurate prediction of user preferences and maximization of user utilities. As a result, most existing techniques are not explicitly built for revenue maximization, the primary business goal of enterprises. In this wo...

In fundamental analysis, it is customary to interpret an increase in the ratio of selling, general, and administrative costs to sales (the SG&A cost ratio) between two periods as a negative signal about future profitability and firm value. Implicit in this interpretation is an expectation that SG&A costs should normally move proportionately with increases or decreases in revenues, and that an i...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the fiduciary advantage of a Vascular Surgery program to an academic, tertiary care hospital. METHODS This is a retrospective review of hospital (HealthQuest) and physician (IDX) billing databases from April 2009 to September 2010. We identified all patients interacting with Vascular Surgery (VS) to provide an overview of global finances. Patients introduced sole...

Partial budget analysis is an effective production tool to evaluate economic implications of proposed changes to pig production systems. We describe a partial-budgeting tool that estimates the effects of lactation space and lactation-space management on net revenue in a multi-site production system. A partial-budgeting worksheet is linked to an economic model that couples production-system-spec...

We model a firm’s decisions about quality investment under differing external (market) and internal (cost and revenue) environments. We find that costs and benefits of expending resources on quality improvement depend on the price and quality profiles of competitors, the persistence of reputation in the marketplace, the relative efficacy of quality improvement efforts and the degree to which th...

While revenue management (RM) is traditionally considered a tool of service operations, RM shows considerable potential for application in manufacturing operations. The typical challenges in make-to-order manufacturing are fixed manufacturing capacities and a great variety in offered products, going along with pronounced fluctuations in demand and profitability. Since Harris and Pinder in the m...

Value added services have become an important aspect of telecom operator’s profitability. However, while selling value added services, operator’s need to match promotions to specific consumers based on their individual preferences. Pattern association has emerged as one of the powerful tool that can help in identifying consumer preferences based on their historical services usage data. Based on...