This paper is based on an “interview” I did for publons on how I approach refereeing for academic/scholarly journals. The paper covers a broad range of issues across topics including: managing invitations; writing the review; and open reviews. The views are my own, based on a career spanning...

Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of human attention is relatively fixed. Markets are a social...

Advances in automation for electronic commerce require improved understanding and formalization of the objects, processes, and policies of commerce itself. These include business objects such as bills of lading and contracts; processes such as workflows and trade procedures; and policies...

This study focuses on trust formation and development in global buyer-supplier relationships. Trust affects all business relationships, especially global business-to-business (B2B) transactions due to the distances between buyers and suppliers. We use information signaling theory to examine how...

Die Europäische Union verfolgt mit der Digital Agenda for Europe das Ziel, durch die Schaffung eines einheitlichen digitalen Marktes einen Zugang für alle Europäer zu zeitgemäßer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie zu gewährleisten, um so mehr Innovation, Investment und Inklusion...

Large-scale electronic shopping systems need to accommodate both (a)a large number of products, many of which are close substitutes, and (b) aheterogeneous body of customers who have complex, multidimensional andperhaps rapidly changing-preferences regarding the products for salein the system....