Pricing objectives and pricing methods in the services sector George J. Avlonitis and Kostis A. Indounas Department of Marketing and Communication‚ Athens University of Economics and Business‚ Athens‚ Greece Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to explore the pricing objectives that service companies pursue along with the pricing methods that they adopt in order to set their prices. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive review of the literature revealed the complete
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Two general approaches are used for costing products for the purpose of valuing inventories and cost of goods sold. One approach is called absorption costing. Absorption costing is generally used for external financial reports. The other approach called variable costing is preferred by some companies for internal decision making and must be used when an income statement is prepared in the contribution format. Ordinarily absorption costing and variable costing produce different figures for net
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15‚ 2011 Ethical Issues in Economic Globalization Abstract This paper applies a comparative approach to the ethical issues surrounding economic globalization. An analysis of the commonly debated issues and claims is represented by two arguments. Proponents of economic globalization believe that it advances the economic‚ technical‚ cultural‚ and intellectual interests of the global community. Anti-economic globalization proponents believe that it is harmful to global economic welfare across the
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Economic development is generally understood to mean an increase in national production that result in an increase in average per capita gross national product (GNP). An increase in average per capita GNP alone however is not sufficient to denote the implied or expected meaning of economic development. Besides an increase in average per capita GNP‚ most interpretations of the concept imply a widespread distribution of income as well. Economic development as commonly defined today‚ The strategies
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2. New Product Description 2.1 Features Our company produced a camera with a new concept‚ which is called mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (MILC)‚ and the name of product is CV-3. The new coming from the old is better than old. The CV-3 which design derived from the digital camera explains this meaning perfectly. Our products have many features‚ and I will list some key features as flow. 2.11 Key features • Interchangeable sealed lens/sensor units • Built-in flash • Optional electronic
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Nowadays‚ the government are looking the effective and innovation way to cut the cost to manage their staff which are increase steadily in recent year. Due to these reason the technology “Bring Your Own Device” will become more attractive to government agencies and more and more appear in public sector. The government are approving this policy and allow the government staff to use their personal device like smartphone‚ tablet and laptop for work purpose like access the public sector organization
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Electronic Commerce: Products and Services Learning Objectives Upon completion of this chapter‚ you will be able to: 1. Describe electronic retailing (e-tailing) and its characteristics. 2. Define and describe the primary e-tailing business models. 3. Describe how online travel and tourism services operate and their impact on the industry. 4. Discuss the online employment market‚ including its participants‚ benefits‚ and limitations. 5. Describe online real estate services. 6. Discuss
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Topic 1 sequence your own genome: benefit and concern Introduction The application of computation methods to DNA and protein science is a new and exciting development in biology. Those technologies such as whole genome sequence and sequence program provide a gateway to study genome and its related issues. In the past twenty years‚ those evolutional technologies have lead in the determination of the completion sequence of a variety organism such as viruses‚ bacteria and C.elegan in 1998 (Sanger
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Parents and siblings of children with disabilities experience unique issues and concerns that distinguish them from members of families without disabilities. This essay will argue‚ in the process of exploring a number of these concerns. Most of these concerns have as a common focus the existence and nature of social and institutional structures that support them in the delivery of the additional needs that may be required for children with disabilities. As will be seen‚ the application of the social
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Discuss the main factors affecting product pricing in the UK Price – the amount of money which costumer pays for product or service to in order to achieve them‚ or the sum of values that one party exchanges with another to have or use products or services. The main factors which determine price are demand and supply. Demand is a desire of customers to own and the ability to pay for products or use services. Supply is quantity of products or services which are available to sell at the given time
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