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Konzeptentwicklung für eine Systemanalyse im gärtnerischen Einzelhandel auf Unternehmensebene
Gabriel, Andreas; Bitsch, Vera - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2013
Der Posterbeitrag stellt das Projektkonzept und die Methode einer Systemanalyse von Kleinstunternehmen des …
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Closed-Loop Supply Chains in the Electrical and Electronics Industry of Japan
Shimada, Tomoaki - Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University - 2010
We investigate the impact of the home appliance recycling law on closed-loop supply chain activities in the home appliance industry of Japan. We also examine the activities of PC (personal computer) recycling and mobile phone recycling in Japan to conduct comparative research on their reverse...
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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
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The Personal Computer and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 2, pp. 187-203
In contrast to the large and rapidly growing literature on information technology (IT) investments and firm productivity, we know very little about the role of personal computers in business creation. Using matched data from the 1997-2001 Computer and Internet Usage Supplements to subsequent...
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ICT, Financial Inclusion, and Growth Evidence from African Countries
Kpodar, Kangni; Andrianaivo, Mihasonirina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we investigate whether financial inclusion is one of the channels through which mobile phone...
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Una aproximación al sesgo de medición del precio de las computadoras personales en México
Lizardi, Carlos Guerrero de - In: Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA XV (2006) 1, pp. 97-124
Changes in quality in information technology products provoke that compilation of their price indexes represent a major challenge. In this respect, this paper has three goals. In first place, to build price indexes for personal computers during 1990-2004. In second place, to compare our price...
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Estimating computer depreciation using online auction data
Antonopoulos, Christos; Sakellaris, Plutarchos - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 20 (2011) 2, pp. 183-204
Personal computer prices decline rapidly with age. The price of a four-year-old used computer is almost one tenth of the price of a new one. This paper provides new evidence on why prices of personal computers decline so rapidly as they age, using online auction data from eBay. An innovative...
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PRICES, PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION AND QUALITY MEASUREMENT: A COMPARISON BETWEEN HEDONIC AND MATCHED MODEL METHODS
Tomat, Gian Maria - Banca d'Italia - 2005
The paper provides an analysis of the problems of construction of quality-adjusted price indexes within the framework of the theory of product differentiation. In the general case of price-making behaviour on the part of firms, hedonic regressions are defined on the basis of reduced forms of the...
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SOFTWARE CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND ITS COMPLEXITY
BOITOR, Axenia Bianca; HERŢANU, Andreea; BRĂTUCU, Gabriel - In: Management & Marketing 8 (2013) Special-Issue, pp. 63-70
questions regarding the use of hardware and software products, the purchase and the factors that influence the users’ decision …
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The Effect of Superstar Software on Hardware Sales in System Markets
Binken, J.L.G.; Stremersch, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2008
(often referred to as "hardware") largely depend on the availability of complementary products (often referred to as …€œsuperstar†software titles of very high quality (e.g., Super Mario 64) may have had disproportionately large effects on hardware unit … hardware sales, need to account for superstar returns, and their decaying effect over time, over and above a mere software …
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