the purpose of business entity is to maximize shareholders wealth by enhancing the firm’s value thus, getting expected returns are very important for them. investors and creditors are going to find a precise scale for measuring overall performance of a firm as a whole to decide whether to invest in the firm, to continue with the firm or to exit from it. economic value added (eva) is an analytic...

abstract purpose of this paper: this paper presents an analysis toward understanding the business value components that a health care organization can drive by adopting rfid technology into its system. this researcher proposes a framework for evaluating the business value of rfid technology. to do so, emphasis is put on delivering business value through refining business processes and expanding...

The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...

We develop an asset allocation approach that translates valuation signals into a suggested allocation. At its core, we simulate a mean-reverting value-price evolution to infer important distribution parameters as needed in our allocation rule. The latter relies on a broad range of parameters, thereby diversifying the model risk and making the framework stable. The simulation is calibrated to me...

This paper presents a value-based software process framework that has been derived from the 4+1 theory of value-based software engineering (VBSE). The value-based process framework integrates the four component theories – dependency, utility, decision, and control, to the central theory W, and orients itself as a 7-step process guide to practice value-based software engineering. We also illustr...

W propose a structural approach to measuring brand and subbrand value using observational data. Brand value is defined as the difference in equilibrium profit between the brand in question and its counterfactual unbranded equivalent on search attributes. Our model allows us to make this computation rigorously, taking into account competitors’ and retailers’ reactions in the real and counterfact...

The emergence of decentralized virtual currency systems based on cryptographic operations has been accompanied by efforts to utilize the technology as infrastructure for further applications besides cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. So-called Decentralized Consensus Systems (DCSs) could reshape financial and other information-based industries, where the invention, registration and transfer of a...