Auf Grund der Situation auf den Arbeitsmärkten und der Auswirkungen der Finanzkrise ist es essenziell für Unternehmen im Finanzsektor und speziell für Banken mögliche Instrumente zu finden, um bestehende Mitarbeiter zu binden und potentielle neue Mitarbeiter zu gewinnen. Hier setzt das...

One of the major challenges today is the global shortage of managerial staff. Globalization and opening up of new markets lead to a steadily rising demand, but the supply of Western talent is decreasing. Now enterprises tend to seek skilled personnel in rapidly developing economies such as...

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, wichtige Einflussfaktoren zur Steigerung derAbschlussrate (engl.: Conversion Rate) aufzuzeigen und diese durch einselbst entwickeltes Bewertungssystem einzuschätzen. Dazu umschließtdie Arbeit grundlegende technische Aspekte der Webshopsoftwarext:Commerce (Ver.:...

We analyze how di erent dimensions of a seller's reputation a ectpricing power in electronic markets. We do so by using text miningtechniques to identify and structure dimensions of importance fromfeedback posted on reputation systems, by aggregating and scoring thesedimensions based on the...

As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large datasets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of productsbecome available. These present exciting new opportunities for empiricaleconomic and business research, but also raise new statistical issuesand challenges. In...

Information systems can serve as intermediaries between the buyers andthe sellers in a market, creating an "electronic marketplace"that lowers the buyers' cost to acquire information about seller pricesand product offerings. As a result, electronic marketplaces reduce theinefficiencies caused by...

We present a framework for measuring software quality using pricing anddemand data, and empirical estimates that quantify the extent of qualitydegradation associated with software ver- sioning. Using a 7-month,108-product panel of software sales from Amazon.com, we document theextent to which...

The phenomenon of sponsored search advertising – where advertiserspay a fee to Internet search engines to be displayed alongside organic(non-sponsored) web search results – is gaining ground as thelargest source of revenues for search engines. Using a unique paneldataset of several hundred...