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Profit Optimization in Spatial Crowdsourcing: Effectiveness and Efficiency
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2022In Spatial crowdsourcing, mobile users perform spatio-temporal tasks that involve travel to specified locations. Spatial crowdsourcing (SC) is enabled by SC platforms that support mobile worker recruitment and retention, as well as task assignment, which is essential to maximize profits that are accrued from serving task requests.
Yan Zhao 0008 +8 more
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The estimation of profit efficiency
Applied Economics Letters, 2017ABSTRACTThis article discusses a way of solving the ‘Greene Problem’ that has been termed for a technical difficulty in estimating a profit system with technical and allocative inefficiencies. As the ‘Greene Problem’ is due to the existence of unobserved technical inefficiency interactive in a nonlinear form, the article proposes a use of homogeneity ...
Yongseung Han, Myeong Hwan Kim
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Profitability, efficiency and targets
2018This chapter introduces primary data to illustrate the shift from security to flexibility detailed in chapter 2 and its specific impact upon management practice and culture within the service economy. The theme of the chapter is the quest for profitability and efficiency, embodied in the imposition of performance indicators and targets.
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Economic Affairs, 1985
In Economic Affairs July–September 1985 Peter Kellner argued that socialism was better than capitalism in using markets. Professors Norman Barry (pictured on p. 9), of the University of Buckingham, and David Myddleton (right), of the Cranfield School of Management, offer two contrasting defences of capitalism to reject Mr Kellner.
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In Economic Affairs July–September 1985 Peter Kellner argued that socialism was better than capitalism in using markets. Professors Norman Barry (pictured on p. 9), of the University of Buckingham, and David Myddleton (right), of the Cranfield School of Management, offer two contrasting defences of capitalism to reject Mr Kellner.
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Bank risk, profit efficiency and profitability in a frontier market
Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 2020PurposeThe study examines the impact of risk on the profit efficiency and profitability of banks in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachData envelopment analysis was used to estimate profit efficiency scores and accounting ratios were used to measure profitability.
King Carl Tornam Duho +4 more
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Impact of robotic operative efficiency on profitability
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2013We sought to determine the impact of robotic operative efficiency on profitability and assess the impact of secondary variables.Financial data were collected for all robotic cases performed for fiscal years 2010 (FY10) and 2011 (FY11) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and included 9 surgical subspecialties.
Elizabeth J, Geller +1 more
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Maximizing Profits and Efficiency
Efficiency and profitability are at the core of effective supply chain financial management. In the contemporary business landscape, the intersection of financial acumen and operational excellence is a critical driver of success. This exploration delves into the significance of maximizing profits and efficiency in supply chain financial management ...Alim Al Ayub Ahmed +5 more
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Technical efficiency of for‐profit and non‐profit nursing homes
Managerial and Decision Economics, 1992AbstractThis paper employs data envelopment analysis to generate efficiency indices for individual nursing homes relative to a best‐practice frontier. Further analysis then shows that these ‘unadjusted’ indices represent factors other than efficiency. Regression analysis purges the indices of these confounding influences.
John L. Fizel, Thomas S. Nunnikhoven
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Monopoly Profits, Efficiency Profits, and Teaching Strategic Management
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2018Structure-conduct-performance (SCP) and resource-based logics are two prominent theoretical explanations within strategic management for how firms gain and sustain competitive advantages.
Jay B. Barney, Alison Mackey
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The efficient, enjoyable, and profitable orthopedic practice
Clinics in Sports Medicine, 2002For the practicing orthopedist to achieve his personal practice goals of developing an efficient, enjoyable, profitable orthopedic practice, he must commit himself to restructuring his practice environment. This restructuring involves bringing in-house as many ancillary services as the practice can support, creating efficiencies in the clinic and ...
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