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Title: PRICING STRATEGIES FOR ONLINE MULTIPLAYER GAMES
Author: Parker, Neal
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Information technology, Business
Description: This dissertation examines the different pricing strategies available to online multiplayer game publishers. We develop mathematical models of the pricing decision that the publisher engages in and conduct a numerical experiment to identify critic...

Title: Economic and Political Uncertainty and The Effects of Organizational Integration, Volume Flexibility, And Redundancy on Reliability and Delivery for Water Utilities
Author: Fraher, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Industrial management
Description: Every hour of everyday water utilities across the United States labor tirelessly to supply clean, safe, and affordable drinking water to residential and industrial consumers. Wastewater from these homes and businesses is captured and moved to trea...

Title: MANAGERIAL RISK IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS: EFFECTS OF FRAMING, NARROW FRAMING AND TIME INCONSISTENT PREFERENCES ON REAL OPTIONS EXERCISE DECISIONS
Author: Khan, Sarah
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Management, Information technology
Description: Real options theory has been advocated as a solution to risky IT investment decisions. IT investments decisions are risky due to uncertainty around future outcomes and the inability of traditional financial measures (like NPV, IRR) to account for ...

Title: DIGITAL PIRACY: AN ASSESSMENT OF CONSUMER PIRACY RISK AND OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION STRATEGIES
Author: Jeong, Bong
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Operations research, Information technology
Description: Digital piracy and the emergence of new distribution channels have changed the dynamics of supply chain coordination and created many interesting problems. There has been increased attention to understanding the phenomenon of consumer piracy behav...

Title: Optimal purchasing strategy for bandwidth: A buyer's perspective
Author: Vergara, Frances
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Business
Description: In today's burgeoning business environments, data frenetically pulses through massive interconnected networks as firms create, compile, and disseminate vast amounts of information. Organizations need to acquire the bandwidth that allows them to ef...

Title: Disruptions in Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Model Simulation To Measure Resiliency and Performance During Disasters
Author: Brewer, Laura
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Operations research
Description: Supply chain disruptions have been a major concern in businesses and society. Our goal is to study these disruptions and analyze ways to mitigate their effects. To do so, we propose an agent-based model simulation. In our model, we consider the fo...