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Determinants of E-business Adoption: Evidence from Firms in India, Nigeria, Uganda

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji; Lal, Kaushalesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2004

In this paper we employ firm-level data collected in three countries to analyze factors determining the adoption of internal e-business technologies in developing countries. The main objectives of the study are: identification of clusters based on technology adopted, classify firms in each...

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Implications of Web 2.0 for financial institutions: Be a driver, not a passenger

Heng, Stefan; Meyer, Thomas; Stobbe, Antje - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Web 2.0 heralds a new era of communication with a massive increase in information supply and where news, opinion and services flow directly from user to user. Financial institutions can take advantage if they stay abreast of this development. However, any Web 2.0 presence of a financial...

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Media industry facing biggest upheaval since Gutenberg. Media consumers morphing into media makers

Heng, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The advance of innovative information and communication technologies has triggered a fundamental upheaval in the media industry. The technology is reforming the conventional media model. The media mix will become more varied; interactive and personalised offers are taking root and finding their...

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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?

Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …

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Blogs and the Economics of Reciprocal Attention

Gaudeul, Alexia; Mathieu, Laurence; Peroni, Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Blogs differ from other media in that authors are usually not remunerated and inscribe themselves in communities of similarly minded individuals. Bloggers value reciprocal attention, interaction with other bloggers and information from reading other blogs; they value being read but also writing...

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ICTs and rural development in India

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This monograph compares the methodologies and progress of the different existing models of information and communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of complementary reforms in government administration and policies. The...

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Software Marketing on the Internet: the Use of Samples and Repositories

Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

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Is the Internet Bad News? The Online News Era and the Market for High-Quality News

Frijters, Paul; Velamuri, Malathi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We review and model the impact of the internet on the production and uptake of high- quality news. Our review of trends … decoupled from quality news, and iii) the dominant business model of internet news mirrors that of radio, television, and … particular markets, (2) easy access to information on the internet makes it cheaper to provide high-quality news and to …

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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development

Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...

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