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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Profit Maximization"”.
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Profit maximization of a kanban-based supply chain
… This enables us to partially recover the profit when the changes are negative, or take a better advantage of changes when they are positive.
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Testing the Behavior Implications of Profit Maximization in Manufacturingfirms
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Efficient buffer design algorithms for production line profit maximization
… thesis makes contributions to production system profit maximization. The profit of a production line is the revenue associated with the production rate minus the buffer space cost and average inventory holding cost. We assume that machines have already been chosen and therefore our only decision …
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A profit maximization model in a two-echelon supply chain management : distribution and pricing strategies
… The purpose of this thesis is to develop a profit maximization model that presents an integrated distribution and pricing strategy for any company facing such issues. We first examine a simplified scenario when all customers are located in the same delivery region and their demand is …
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Integrated optimization model for airline schedule design : profit maximization and issues of access for small markets
… often small markets, that are not financially profitable for the airlines. This is of grave concern to government policy makers as rural access to markets, goods and services is a politically charged subject. The issue is to understand what is likely to happen in small communities if the …
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Optimal Order Assignment with Minimum Wage Consideration (OOAMWC)
… affect crowdsourcing include task assignment, profit maximizations, as well as time window issues. In some instances addressing some of the issues results in the other issues being overlooked. An example is when assigning tasks to workers, the profits of the workers might not be considered and …
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The Edsel: a case study in the economics of discretionary behavior and objectives of a firm
… a theory of the firm, which suggests a utility maximization vice the classical profit maximization concept. The conclusion is reached and tends to support the utility maximization concept. Additionally, the conclusion is reached that the utility maximization concept is useful only in providing …
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An Analysis of the Production Efficiency of Division I -A Intercollegiate Athletic Programs
Rather than limit their growth to the confines of profit maximization tenants, Division I-A intercollegiate athletic programs should be evaluated within the context of the more appropriate Niskanen model. Such assessments will enable administrators to operate their program in the best interest of …
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Data-driven revenue management
… of the model we consider are: the classical profit-maximization newsvendor model, the risk-averse newsvendor model and the price-setting newsvendor model. If the explicit demand distribution is known, then the exact solutions to these models can be found either analytically or numerically via …
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Iterative algorithms for a joint pricing and inventory control problem with nonlinear demand functions
… control are important determinants of a firm's profitability. The intense competition brought about by rapid innovation, lean manufacturing time and the internet revolution has compelled firms to adopt a dynamic strategy that involves complex interplay between pricing and production decisions. …
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Justice within organizations: Perceptions of family support programs.
… equality, need, equality of opportunity, profit maximization, and social responsibility--was administered to 233 employees of public and private sector organizations. Relationships between several background variables and endorsement of justice rules, and between the perceived justice of …
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The erosion of apprenticeship training in South Africa's metal and engineering industry
… imperatives were the inexorable motive for a profit driven industrial organisation and on the side of organised labour, the imperatives to protect skills, jobs and wages. The existence of the one set of imperatives presupposed the need to redefine the existence of the other set. These …
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The agro-economic development of the lowland region of Lesotho
… the "village model" with the objective of profit maximization. d) The planning results were analysed and conclusions were drawn. e) Organization patterns which are required for their implementation were recommended.
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Economic effects of multi-project management
… combining various management structures with profit maximization are analyzed. Finally, it is shown that by managing inter-project interactions effectively, rapid design transfer is achievable. This allows both quick product development and relatively new design in products, while requiring …
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Dynamic pricing in shared mobility on demand service and its social impacts
In this thesis, we formulate and solve a profit maximization problem of shared mobility on demand service operations, and investigate the impact of such operations on performance of transportation system with a carefully designed case study. It is shown that our approach can generate much more …
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Evolutionary Models Of Market Behavior
… evolutionary models examining market behavior.;Profit maximization is the usual prerequisite for achievement of competition. However, for a long time it has been thought that this principle of profit maximization can be replaced by natural selection. In an evolutionary model of an industry, …
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ESSAYS ON INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND REAL ESTATE
… coordination.'' Compared to a model of own profit maximization, our pair-wise tests favor a model of joint profit maximization among adopters of the same software. We estimate that the coordination channel results in an average markup increase of $25 per unit per month, impacting about 4.2 …
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Cheap Apocalypse
… of every living species in the pursuit of profit maximization. Narrated by a discarded television floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch––an enormous amalgamation of garbage which can be seen from space––this novel will expose human consumer culture alongside the experiences of …
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The Use of Noncooperative Games to Determine Strategic Bidding in Centralized Electricity Markets
… complex games where participants are driven by profit maximization in the long run and are, therefore, enticed to explore different solutions in the short term. Knowing that they will meet in similar games in the near future makes the players adopt implicit cooperative behavior, and the …
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