DSpace collection: 第27卷第4期

Reused Smartphones Pricing Analysis — A Duopoly Model Analysis with respect to Apple and Samsung Smartphones

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:47:36 GMT

title: Reused Smartphones Pricing Analysis — A Duopoly Model Analysis with respect to Apple and Samsung Smartphones abstract: As technology advances, multi-touch smartphones have rapidly become a necessity in the daily lives of most users. In order to expand their market share and attract new users, new generations of smartphones are being introduced in a much shorter interval. As a result, older phones are discarded in greater speed, and thus creating more electronic waste each year. To reduce waste material, the concept of reused smartphones is proposed. In order to attract users to purchase these reused smartphones, this study aims to look into the pricing strategy for Apple and Samsung products as both are top smartphone brands with the highest market shares. Under the duopoly environment, this study uses the Cournot game model to determine the optimal solution in a price competition with Apple set to be the leader and Samsung the “follower”. While making pricing strategies, manufacturers commonly strive to maximize their profits. Two pricing functions will have a point of intersection, and the solution will be the optimal equilibrium. The model proposed in this study may be taken as reference for manufacturers to understand the reused smartphone market.

Effects of Paid Parental Leave Allowance on Labor Market Outcomes in Taiwan

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:43:56 GMT

title: Effects of Paid Parental Leave Allowance on Labor Market Outcomes in Taiwan abstract: In this article we tried to understand the effect of the enforcement of the amendment to the EIA compound with parental/maternity benefits on labor market outcomes in Taiwan. This article provides a new view, which differs from previous studies in Taiwan (Zveglich Jr. and Rodgers [23]; Lai and Masters [12]; Lai [11]) to explain the effect of parental / maternity benefits. We found that the legislation that has guaranteed paid parental leave to workers (viz., the amendment to the EIA) has shown varied effects on the labor market outcomes in Taiwan. The variance was largely attributed to firms’ compliance rate, which was typically dependent on the size of the firms. We noticed that the firms have either complied more or complied less or in the worst case not at all complied with the provisions of the amended EIA. Consequently their effects on labor market outcomes have been diverse and varying. For example, the large firms had longer working hours with higher wages on the one hand, and offered lesser employment opportunities to female workers with high fertility rates compared to other female workers on the other hand. Employers in most of the cases were found to have kept the roles vacant, and haven’t needed many female workers on roll per se. Whereas in those firms that are large in size, the female workers were found to have worked for relatively longer hours and were initially paid higher wages. evertheless, the female workers in large firms have started receiving lower wages with time. We also found that the full-time workers in general have sensed a stronger effect of the legislation on working hours in comparison to the sample of both full-time and part-time workers.

Do the Corporate Performance and Default Risk Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility in China?

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:39:11 GMT

title: Do the Corporate Performance and Default Risk Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility in China? abstract: This study mainly discusses the impact of the corporate performance and default risk on corporate social responsibility in China from December 2008 to August 2014. The results showed that the return on equity and return on asset have positively significant influences on corporate social responsibility which is four composing indicators. Moreover, the corporate performance and default risk are positive effect on the corporate social responsibility when the company is central enterprise.

Key Factors to Affect the Adoption of Mobile Banking in the Philippines

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:35:24 GMT

title: Key Factors to Affect the Adoption of Mobile Banking in the Philippines abstract: The rapid development of internet and popularization of mobile phones has stimulated the banking and financial sectors towards encouraging customers to use mobile banking. This paper examines empirically the factors that affect the adoption of mobile banking in the Philippines. Data were collected from 421 Filipino using online questionnaires. This study uses factor analysis and multiple regressions to analyze the factors that affect the behavioral intention to adopt Mobile Banking in the Philippines. The results revealed that perceived attitude and perceived behavioral control were key dimensions that affect the behavioral intention to adopt Mobile Banking. In particular, relative advantage, compatibility, observability, and trialability, were found to affect attitude factor. In addition, self-efficacy, technology support and government support were similarly ascertained to affect perceived behavioral control factor. The results of this study will have useful implications for banking industry in the Philippines.

Exploring the Relationship among Hedonic Shopping Motivation, Impulse Buying, Post-Purchase Regret, and Coping

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:31:54 GMT

title: Exploring the Relationship among Hedonic Shopping Motivation, Impulse Buying, Post-Purchase Regret, and Coping abstract: Hedonic shopping motivation often results in impulse buying, and the outcome or the process of impulse buying may results in post-purchase regret and consequently coping to deal with the regret. However, is it possible that when a consumer engages in hedonic shopping motivation, s/he has “prepared” to face the consequence to consider coping, even before impulse buying? Using structural equation modeling (SEM), a total of 310 valid questionnaires were collected to test the initial model of hedonic shopping motivation towards impulse buying, with direct path toward coping, and indirect path mediated by post-purchase regret. Based on the Modification Index, additional path from hedonic shopping motivation toward coping was added and re-analyzed, resulting in better fit. All research hypotheses were supported.

Simulated Annealing for the Blood Pickup Routing Problem

Mon, 13 Feb 2017 08:27:51 GMT

title: Simulated Annealing for the Blood Pickup Routing Problem abstract: Blood service operation is a key component of healthcare systems all over the world. Transporting time-sensitive products like blood presents a specific and unique challenge, as such perishable products have a spoilage time before which they must be used to avoid deterioration. Therefore, if the spoilage time is exceeded, then the product should be discarded. The blood pickup routing problem (BPRP) focuses on the upstream activities of blood logistics, starting from collection or pickup of blood bags at fixed donation sites and then delivering the blood bags to the blood bank. BPRP is an extension of the well-known vehicle routing problem with time windows. In BPRP, the set of vehicle routes are constructed to minimize total distance while at the same time observing time window constraints of donation sites and the spoilage time constraint of the blood. More specifically, each donation site has its time window during which a vehicle can start collecting blood bags at the site. The blood bags must be transported back to the blood bank before the bank’s closing time and the blood’s spoilage time. This study develops a mathematical programming model for BPRP. Since CPLEX can only solve the model to optimality for small instances, this study proposes a simulated annealing (SA) based heuristic approach to solve medium and large BPRP instances. We test the proposed SA heuristic on BPRP instances generated by this study. Computational results show that the proposed SA heuristic performs well on solving BPRP.