A firm chooses a price and the product information it discloses to a consumer whose tastes are privately known. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on the match function for full disclosure to be the unique equilibrium outcome whatever the costs and prior beliefs about product and...

The complexity of the information systems field often lends itself to classification schemes, or taxonomies, which provide ways to understand the similarities and differences among objects under study. Developing a taxonomy, however, is a complex process that is often done in an ad hoc way. This...

Lack of trust has been identified as the major barrier to the growth of electronic commerce. Building trust is essential for the success of web vendors, especially less-known ones. If trust is a sine qua non condition of e-commerce development, then understanding its determinants should be a...

This paper develops a scale to measure consumer trust towards a web merchant. For this purpose, two studies were carried out. A total of 430 valid observations were used for the scale development. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the psychometric properties...

Nous vivons un choc numérique, qui n'est plus une déformation lente, mais une rupture brutale, planétaire, rapide et globale. Aucun secteur, aucune activité ne sont épargnés. Mobilité, outils collaboratifs, objets connectés, big data… le monde numérique est là et irrigue toutes les...

It is now being assumed — without strong feelings or controversy — that thousands of intelligent objects will be connected to the Internet in the near future. These prospects might gladden hearts or scare weaker souls. They are, day after day, ever more likely ...

L’avènement du numérique, qui change notre rapport à l’information et à la connaissance, bouleverse nos modes de collaboration et nos modèles économiques.

Digital technologies play a major role in the profound changes that characterize political and economic regulations both within nation states and in international relations. They often provide the conditions for these evolutionary processes by means of new modes of information circulation, of...

Assessing the work of scholars is of great importance in the life of academic institutions, disciplines and scholars. Research suggests that that the notion of ‘scholarly influence’ should be substituted for current approaches towards judging scholarship (Truex et al. 2009). This paper seeks...

In the ‘knowledge economy’, knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) are a key driver for innovation and competitiveness. The internationalization of these businesses raises challenges given their specificities such as knowledge intensity, the importance of customer interaction and...