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Record W2052440465 · doi:10.1108/17505930810881743

Systematic profitability analysis of binary network marketing organizations

2008· article· en· W2052440465 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDirect Marketing An International Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicSecurities Regulation and Market Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProfitability indexComputer scienceOriginalityNode (physics)Network topologyBinary numberBinary treeFunction (biology)Compensation (psychology)Order (exchange)Mathematical optimizationData miningOperations researchManagement scienceAlgorithmMathematicsEngineeringEconomicsComputer network

Abstract

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Purpose This paper seeks to introduce a systematic approach to simulating a given binary network marketing (NM) growth topology in a definite society of people. Design/methodology/approach The study represented a binary plan network by its binary rooted tree, where each node represents a down‐line distributor of the root. The paper sought to find a cost function which would identify which existing node is most eligible to attract the new node. Using a survey strategy, the paper introduced some effective criteria, where cost function and design systematic algorithms were introduced, in order to simulate an NM growth topology. According to the designed algorithms, the paper modified a currently used compensation plan of the Questnet Company. Findings The comparison results indicate that the modified plan improves the efficiency by 6 percent, in the sense of profitability for the costumers, and also penetrates the market in 80 percent of trials. Research limitations/implications The paper did not find any currently proposed simulation for binary NM plans. So, in order to introduce the systematic approach, new criteria were obtained based on survey strategy. Practical implications Network marketing organization designers need such a systematic method to arrange their strategies according to the prediction of the network's growth topology. Originality/value The paper presents a novel idea for designing analytical simulation tools for NM plans verification. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first systematic method to propose binary compensation plans.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.072
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.243 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it