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Purpose – The last ten years have seen a gradual withdrawal of retail facilities frommany local areas and the consequent growth of ‘shopping deserts’, resulting in socialand health disbenefits. This paper examines the potential for e-shopping to fill thevacuum and to assist disadvantaged...
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and gender.Research limitations/implications – There are two limitations. First, the sample containedonly UK Internet …
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This thesis identifies and examines evidence of e-commerce in three large businesses (Woolworths, Momentum and Santam) focusing on their Internet branding strategies, the impact of management actions and how those actions contribute to e-commerce success. Case study was used to assemble evidence...
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trust. The first is known as the database service provider problem: A database owner wants a database service provider (DSP … node that enters a P2P application network for the first time needs to trust the claimed observations of other nodes …
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instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms.This paper … examines different incentive mechanisms helping these trust and reputation mechanisms in eliciting users to report own …
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Trust and deception have been of concern to researchers since the earliest research into multi-agent trading systems … (MATS). In an open trading environment, trust can be established by external mechanisms e.g. using secret keys or digital … trading system (MATS) and explore how fraud and deception changes the trust required in a multi-agent trading system …
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Trust and deception have been of concern to researchers since the earliest research into multi-agent trading systems … (MATS). In an open trading environment, trust can be established by external mechanisms e.g. using secret keys or digital …-agent trading system (MATS) and explore how fraud and deception changes the trust required in a multi-agent trading system …
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communities offer enormous opportunities, they also present potential threats due to a lack of trust. Reputation systems provide a … way for building trust through social control by harnessing the community knowledge in the form of feedback. Although … feedback-based reputation systems help community participants decide who to trust and encourage trustworthy behavior, they also …
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This study investigates business-to-business interpersonal trust formation (trust that develops between boundary … first investigate whether trust can form at this stage. Then we examine two factors that may affect trust formation: the … levels of procurement complexity. Results show that trust formation does occur at the price determination stage; however, the …
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