This article presents a product life cycle and forecasting methodology for both emerging and established casino markets. Gross gaming revenues and win per square foot per day were forecasted using classical time-series decomposition with polynomial regression. The model supports the position that casinos conform to Butler's S-shaped product life cycle for resorts, suggesting that the rapid increases in early-period gaming revenues will not continue without intervention to rejuvenate the industry.
Based on organizational theory, a contingency model of quality management practices is proposed, whereby quality management orientation, process choice, and environmental uncertainty are the contextualizing variables. The model posits that to maximize quality and firm performance, quality management practices must be congruent with the particular situation within which the firm finds itself. Thus, no one set of quality management practices can be implemented and be expected to increase performance in all environments. The model suggests reasons for quality management program failures found in recent research and the popular press. Research propositions and implications are discussed.
We study the L-functions associated to Siegel modular forms -equivalently, automorphic representations of GSp(4, ށ ޑ ) -both theoretically and numerically. For the L-functions of degrees 10, 14, and 16 we perform representation theoretic calculations to cast the Langlands L-function in classical terms. We develop a precise notion of what it means to test a conjectured functional equation for an L-function, and we apply this to the degree-10 adjoint L-function associated to a Siegel modular form.
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