Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856511

Social capital and views on suicide via the internet: a study using survey data

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital … Internet for a companion with whom to commit suicide. However, such a relation is not observed between social capital in the … externality of suicidal thoughts conveyed via the Internet. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271687

Бизнес моделиране в електронната търговия

Bonev, Pavlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper aims at presenting an in-depth review of the new economic relationships associated with the advent of e-commerce in the daily lives of consumers in Bulgaria, which greatly contributes to change and adapt to the modern business environment as well as to the new processes. In the paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258864

Do privacy laws affect the location decisions of internet firms? evidence for privacy havens

ROCHELANDET, Fabrice; TAI, Silvio H.T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper empirically studies the location decisions of internet firms when they face high legal standards of privacy … protection. Many factors might influence them: technological spillovers, lower taxation, and so on. Internet firms can also … consider over-stringent. In the current stage of development of the internet – the so-called Web 2.0 – the ease of access to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259213

Tax-paying for Fun and Profit

Kunstadt, Robert; Maggioni, Ilaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Modern advances give us the ability to re-engineer the taxation system to benefit from computerized automation and the insights of modern psychology. People like to do things that bring a tangible reward. Tax-paying should be made FUN, not a chore. You will want to participate if you perceive a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259773

Auctioning with Aspirations: Keep Them Low (Enough)

Shunda, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In an auction with a buy price, a seller offers bidders the opportunity to forgo competing in an auction by transacting immediately at a pre-specified fixed price. If a seller has aspirations in the form of a reference price that depends upon the auction's reserve price and buy price, she does...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079307

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260034

Can a click buy a little happiness? The impact of business-to-consumer e-commerce on subjective well-being

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper presents the first empirical investigation into the effect of e-shopping on subjective well-being. The analysis relies on an Italian nationally and regionally representative dataset from Italy (n = 4,130) drawn from the 2008 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223347

Perpetuating gender stereotypes via the internet? an analysis of the women’s presence in Spanish online newspapers

Mateos de Cabo, Ruth; Gimeno, Ricardo; Martínez, Miryam; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In the present research we investigate possible predictors of the presence of women in Spanish online newspapers using an automatic content analysis over a three-month period. Results of the analysis reveal that Spanish online newspapers continue depicting women in a stereotyped manner. Women...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322665

Bowling alone but tweeting together: the evolution of human interaction in the social networking era

Antoci, Angelo; Sabatini, Fabio; Sodini, Mauro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

example due to the need to increase the working time), the stock of information and ties stored in the Internet can help …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325632