College of Management and Economics

About: College of Management and Economics is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & Stock market. The organization has 2184 authors who have published 2193 publications receiving 28830 citations.

Characteristics and trends of research on waste-to-energy incineration: A bibliometric analysis, 1999–2015

Abstract: This study aims to provide an up-to-date contemporary bibliometric view of the waste-to-energy incineration literature and a correlative analysis of this field. Based on the bibliometric method, a statistical analysis was undertaken on papers published from 1999 to 2015 in Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). There were 4348 publications in the field of waste-to-energy incineration. The number of publications per year has increased steadily since 2009. China produced 15.71% of all pertinent articles followed by Japan with 11.37% and USA with 7.97%. China has played a key role in the collaboration network of 30 most productive countries and regions. In addition, the cooperation within the European countries was notable. However, China ranked first in all aspects except h-index. This means China's impact (number of citations) in this field could be further strengthened though its quantity (number of publications) was the highest. Five clusters were identified from keywords networks, i.e. Central Cluster node (“combustion”), Cluster(I) (central nodes were “fly ash”,” heavy metal(s)” and “bottom ash”), Cluster(II) (central nodes were dioxin-related substances), Clusters(III) (central nodes focused on waste management), and Cluster(IV) “chemistry methods”. These findings are useful for the future endeavor of waste-to-energy incineration academic research.

Strategic transfer pricing in a marketing–operations interface with quality level and advertising dependent goodwill☆

Abstract: Determining an appropriate transfer price is of importance to a firm composed of divisional profit centers since it significantly affects decision-makings of each profit center and then the firm׳s profit. In this paper, we investigate the effects of negotiated and administered transfer pricing on the profits of each center and the firm based on a differential game involving an operations department and a marketing department within a firm. The operations department is responsible for the quality improvement of a particular product and sells this product to end customers through the marketing department who controls the retail price and advertising effort. Our results suggest that compared with the administered transfer price, the negotiation between the operations department and the marketing department leads to a higher transfer price, and then a higher retail price, lower advertising effort and higher quality improvement effort. What׳s more, the decentralized departments can be coordinated by a committed dynamic transfer price of the operations department, and both departments and the firm can benefit from this coordination.