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technology in order to identify their needs for the new mobile data technologies (MDT), the mobile Internet. The research design …
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This paper addresses the question of how much the Internet lowers prices for new cars and why. Using a large dataset of … consumer pays by approximately 2.2%. This suggests that consumers who use an Internet referral service are not those who would … have obtained a low price even in the absence of the Internet. Instead, our finding is consistent with consumers choosing …
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An extensive literature has focused on price competition and the Internet; however, little attention has been given to … the Internet's impact on service competition. Services include activities such as the provision of product information …-commerce retailers, but one group of shoppers is assumed to be Internet (E-commerce) prone, while the other group has a preference for …
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This paper sums up the appearance of the internet and especially the multi-channel offer on consumer behaviour in …
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Mediating transactions through the Internet removes important cues that salespeople can use to assess a consumer …'s willingness to pay. We analyze whether dealers' difficulty in identifying consumer characteristics on the Internet and consumers … statistical race discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use …
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This paper offers a systematic exploration of online feedback mechanism design issues in trading environments with opportunistic sellers, imperfect monitoring of a seller's effort level, and two possible transaction outcomes (corresponding to "high" and "low" quality respectively), one of which...
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Online feedback mechanisms harness the bi-directional communication capabilities of the Internet in order to engineer … and challenges that these mechanisms represent. It discusses some important dimensions in which Internet-based feedback …
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Online reputation mechanisms are emerging as a promising alternative to more established mechanisms for promoting trust and cooperative behavior, such as legally enforceable contracts. As information technology dramatically reduces the cost of accumulating, processing and disseminating consumer...
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Online feedback mechanisms harness the bi-directional communication capabilities of the Internet in order to engineer … and challenges that these mechanisms represent. It discusses some important dimensions in which Internet-based feedback …
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This paper explores the factors guiding Internet adoption by agribusiness firms. The relationship between Internet … strategies and manager perceptions on the barriers to and catalysts for Internet adoption are analyzed in a supply …-chain management framework. Using factor analysis and an ordered Probit model, results indicate that Internet strategies are more …
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