It has been a long demand of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that the Content (CPs) share their profits for investments in network infrastructure. In this paper, we study profit sharing contracts between CP with multiple ISPs. Each ISP commits to improving Quality (QoS) end-users through higher efforts. The agrees due resulting its content. We first model non-cooperative interaction and ISPs ...

Unlike accounting earnings, economic profit (EVA) is a measure of a company's true earnings because it fully "accounts" for the costs of all forms of financing, including debt and equity. In the EVA view, a company is not truly profitable unless it earns a return on capital that bests the opportunity cost of capital. That being said, the question addressed here is how to measure the economic pr...

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...

INTRODUCTION Ownership of healthcare providers has been considered as one factor that might influence their health and healthcare related performance. The aim of this article was to provide an overview of what is known about the effects on economic, administrative and health related outcomes of different types of ownership of healthcare providers--namely public, private non-for-profit (PNFP) an...

This paper presents the findings of an investigation into the role of social technologies in violence prevention non-profit organizational networks. The research was conducted with the cooperation of a partner organization that serves as a knowledge hub connecting various providers of services related to the treatment and prevention of instances of interpersonal violence. From our time working ...

Not-for-profit firms are greatly over-represented in the childcare, medical care, education and care for the aged sectors where service providing workers, as well as purchasers, seem to care about the level or quality of service being provided. Since all individuals who care about service levels receive nonexcludable benefits, these services have a public good element. Such care can be used to ...