Market transparency refers to the level of current trade information revealed to participants by market makers. This paper analyzes the effect of market transparency on the outcomes of posted-offer style Business-to-Business e-commerce markets. First, increasing market transparency improves the...

The Internet is transforming the way nonprofits have been disseminating information about themselves, interacting with potential donors, and fundraising. In this article, the authors focus on a special type of online service providers for nonprofits (OSPNs) that bring donors and nonprofits...

In this thesis, we investigate the effects of Information Technology (IT) and the Internet on business environments from three perspectives: the catalyst function of IT and the Internet in developing new business models, the enabler role of these technologies for emerging digital marketplaces,...

Most of the tools that are used for Information Security (ISEC) risk assessment are qualitative and are not grounded in theory. This paper presents and applies a well-known financial risk theory, Value at Risk (VaR), to the ISEC risk assessment. VaR in its most succinct form is defined as a...

Loyalty is a big part of today's business because retaining a customer is cheaper than attracting a new one. This relationship also holds true in e-commerce. There are many programs on the Internet to enhance loyalty in the electronic environment, most of which can be summarized as frequent...