Alliance formation as growth opportunity for non-publicly traded companies: a value-added service provided by private equity investors

There is growing recognition of the potential role for nutraceuticals and dietary supplements in helping to reduce health risks and improve health quality. Pharmaceutical and nutritional companies are aware of the monetary success taking advantage of the nutraceuticals and dietary supplements. Nutraceuticals has proven health benefits and their Consumption will keep disease at bay and allow humans to maintain an overall good health. Functional foods and internationally products represent a value added growth opportunity both domestically and internationally. Development of better characterized and research proven products will help enhance consumer confidence in nutraceutical and functional food products in the world. Regulatory aspects of such products were in a state of confusion in 20th century. Till date the regulations are not harmonized for the globe and change from country to country. But now it is clearly understood that the regulations for clinical evidence and safety of such products cannot be less stringent than rules for modern medicines and thus the science of nutraceutical is progressing. The global nutraceutical market will reach $285.0 billion by 2021 from $198.7 billion in 2016 at CAGR of 7.5% from 2016-2021. The present research has been devoted towards better understanding of the nutraceuticals and its regulation in India and USA.

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Marketing integrated pest management as a value-added service.

Urban insect pests: sustainable management strategies ◽

10.1079/9781780642758.0205 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 205-215

Author(s):

P. Dhang

Keyword(s):

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

Value Added ◽

A Value ◽

Value Added Service

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The MAIS Approach to Web Service Design

Advances in Database Research - Advanced Topics in Database Research, Volume 5 ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-935-9.ch011 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 187-204

Author(s):

Marzia Adorni ◽

Francesca Arcelli ◽

Carlo Batini ◽

Marco Comerio ◽

Flavio De Paoli ◽

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Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Service Life ◽

Time Use ◽

Service Management ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Value Added ◽

A Value ◽

Value Added Service ◽

Run Time ◽

Service Life Cycle

This chapter presents a first attempt to realize a methodological framework supporting the most relevant phases of the design of a value-added service. A value-added service is defined as a functionality of an adaptive and multichannel information system obtained by composing services offered by different providers. The framework has been developed as part of the multichannel adaptive information systems (MAIS) project. The MAIS framework focuses on the following phases of service life cycle: requirements analysis, design, deployment, and run-time use and negotiation. In the first phase, the designer elicits, validates, and negotiates service requirements according to social and business goals. The design phase is in charge of modeling services with an enhanced version of UML, augmented with new features developed within the MAIS project. The deployment phase considers the network infrastructure and, in particular, provides an approach to implement and coordinate the execution of services from different providers. In the run-time use and negotiation phase, the MAIS methodology provides support to the optimal selection and quality renegotiation of services and to the dynamic evaluation of management costs. The chapter describes the MAIS methodological tools available for different phases of service life cycle and discusses the main guidelines driving the implementation of a service management architecture called reflective architecture that complies with the MAIS methodological approach.

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Third-party purchase: an empirical study of Chinese third-party logistics users

International Journal of Operations & Production Management ◽

10.1108/ijopm-11-2014-0569 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 36 (3) ◽

pp. 286-307 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Yangyan Shi ◽

Abraham Zhang ◽

Tiru Arthanari ◽

Yanping Liu

Keyword(s):

Structural Equation ◽

Demand Uncertainty ◽

Value Added ◽

Third Party ◽

Survey Study ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Third Party Logistics ◽

Content Type ◽

A Value ◽

Value Added Service

Purpose – Third-party purchase (3PP) is a new value-added service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the perception of 3PP service from the perspective of 3PL users. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a survey of Chinese 3PL users and received 242 usable responses. The authors then employed structural equation modeling to test the conceptual model. Findings – The authors found that the likelihood of 3PL users using a 3PP service is significantly associated with uncertainty, but not with asset specificity or frequency or transaction size. 3PP usage is significantly associated with value-to-client. Originality/value – This research is the first survey study of 3PP as a value-added service offered by 3PL providers, from the perspective of 3PL users. The findings suggest that 3PL users are very positive about the value of 3PP service. The 3PP market is still in its infancy but it has great potential, especially for commodity items that have less demand uncertainty.

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