This is a discussion of the manuscript "Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News" by L. George and C. Hogendorn, presented at the 11th Workshop on Media Economics, which was held at the Recanati Business School, Tel-Aviv University, October 9-10, 2013.

Multi-staged R&D projects are copy-book cases of compound real options. Traditional compound option models assume a constant volatility over the lifetime of the project. Building on the n-fold compound option model of Cassimon et al. (2004), we extend this model to allow for phase-specific...

Nowadays the most topical is a problem of economic efficiency assessment of enterprises’ resource management within technological chains, financial structures and logistic systems and so on. Especially it covers Ukraine’s economy, that fell under the impact of world financial crisis and...

Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives are challenging tasks, implying significant costs in their implementation. Therefore, organizations have adopted prudent policies requiring a financial justification. A business-driven methodology is recommended in any BI project initiative, project scoping...

Contemporary Web stores offer a wide range of products to e-customers. However, online sales are strongly dominated by a limited number of bestsellers whereas other, less popular or niche products are stored in inventory for a long time. Thus, they contribute to the problem of frozen capital and...

In this article methodology of e-shops comparison was proposed. 10 groups of internet shops features were distinguished and briefly described. 6 internet shops were analysed as an example of application the proposed method. Suggested method of e-shops comparison can be useful not only for IT...

This article presents the last mile problem occurring in e-commerce. In the first part of the article we discusses the area of delivery to the customer. Next, we present the causes of the last mile problem, and we characterize the costs of dealing with this issue. In the next part the...

This article concerns the subject of demand forecasting and stocks status planning in online shops. One described the ways of materials management and setting the groups of most important products. The second part of the article contains the analysis of surveys results. They were conducted in...

In this article main issues concerning distribution in internet shops were analysed. The kinds of distribution were described and the problem with personal receipt of bought goods was examined. Also the problem of division concerning delivery costs between consumer and internet shop were...

This paper uses data collected from eBay's website to identify why buyers fail to leave (negative) feedback in online markets. Empirical results con¯rm that the fear of retaliation may be an important motivation for buyers not to leave (negative) feedback, while the time and effort cost of...