Faced with shrinking patient rolls and reduced federal support, hospitals across the country are offering a wide variety of new and--for them--unconventional services to bolster their finances. Although the services themselves aren't always profitable, hospital administrators hope the programs will give their facilities a positive image and persuade customers to return when they need medical care.

NVESTORS, world over, are currently demanding more shareholder value than just high returns. Maximising shareholders value has always been the ultimate aim of every company. Investors are very keen in assessing the corporate financial performance that correlate with shareholders wealth particularly the market price of a share. Traditional performance measures like return on investment, earnings...

Indonesia, the largest Muslim population in world, has seen an increase businesses offering Sharia-based products to attract consumers. In a Sharia economy, financial and business transactions must comply with law, which prohibits usury (interest), gharar (uncertainty), maysir (gambling). The Jakarta Islamic Index (JII) was created as stock index for investors looking invest companies that adhe...

In this paper, we develop a pricing model for rental services products whose expected value after purchase is subject to significant uncertainty. Such allow customers pay portion of product’s price as fee use the product trial period given length. At end period, users satisfied with may it by paying difference between and fee, whereas not simply return it. We construct offering increased purcha...

New value-adding solutions are needed for grocery supply chains to gain a sustainable competitive advantage in a market environment characterized by increased competition. This paper discusses two case studies that identify how improvements to the value offering brought about enhancements to the performance of the total supply chain. The concept of time benefit analysis is applied to measure th...

The survival of organizations is in the current business and occupational atmosphere depends on the introducing of new products, innovation and proposing value-inducing processes based on modern knowledge. For this, managers have to evaluate intellectual capitals as an important criterion to improve the performance of organizations. The main propose of this research is to study the relation...