COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE FOOD RETAILING INDUSTRY

We develop a flexible model to examine competitive conditions in the food retailing industry based on the Box-Cox transformation of the demand and industry equilibrium conditions. The impact of key technological and market developments on shifts in the competitive index is examined. Adoption of optical scanning technology was positively related to the market power index but the index was stable and consistent with competitive conditions over the 1982-1992 period.market power, food retailing, Box-Cox model, technological innovations, Agribusiness, Industrial Organization,

Designing a Mobile Game as Promotion Media for Sambisari Temple

Sambisari temple is one of the historical tourist destinations in Sleman regency with the potential of its at-traction. By looking at the current problems, the Sleman Regency Tourism Office needs an effective media to reach the teenage as a target market. It aims to increase visits as well as supporting media for attractions of tourist attractions given to potential tourists. The design of this mobile game is intended to promote the Sambisari temple attractions in attracting teenager as a target market. This time, media games are very popular with teenagers, especially through mobile platforms that are also widely used by teenagers in seeking information and entertainment in their spare time. By using qualitative data collection meth-ods, namely through observation, literature study, interviews, surveyss and comparison matrix which are then an-alyzed as the basis for designing mobile games that are suitable for the teenager target market. It is hoped that through the design of this mobile game it will be able to provide increased visits and inform the area of Sambisari Temple Tourism for prospective tourists. Keywords: Mobile Game, Promotion Media, Youth, Sambisari Temple

Analisis Gap Kepentingan dan Kepuasan Pelanggan : suatu Pendekatan Evaluasi Mutu Pelayanan

The purpose of this paper is to provide same insight (1) service quality evaluation by proposing the importance-performance analysis as valuable tool to ensure multi-perspective evaluation and by customer satisfaction index, then (2) to know what priority attributes have to keep up the good work to achieve customer satisfaction. Data were obtained from 100 Esia customers who use service transactions online payment points wich sampling technique is convenience sampling. Data processed by using Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) methode and Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI). The IPA results showed by cartesius diagram and describes about the attribute fill in each quadran which have different meanings. Analysis of the level of concordance shows that lowest quality of service factors is the emphaty (78.60%), whereas the highest level is tangible dimension (89.45%). Based on the CSI calculations customer satisfaction is 72.17%

Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan dan Pendidikan Karakter Bangsa

Civics concept is a doctrine fulfilled with relationship between citizens and state. The relation set a citizen as a member of political community. Civics education is needed to create good citizens whose have nation character. Nation character is needed for unified Indonesian which consist of various differentiation. This article analyze civics education, character education, beside strategy of teaching value in building the nation character. It becomes urgent because civics education had been focusing to cognitive aspects and gave less focuse to affective and psychomotoric sides