Die Volksrepublik China ist, nach den USA, der zweitgrößte Markt für Mobiltelefone. Bereits heute nutzen 59,3 Mill. Chinesen die Möglichkeit der mobilen Kommunikation, und jeden Monat wird die Nutzerzahl um etwa zwei Millionen steigen, so dass am Jahresende rund 70 Mill. Mobiltelefonnutzer...

Der Ländervergleich zeigte, dass die Einführung und Stimulierung von Wettbewerb zu merkbaren Wohlfahrtsgewinnen in einzelnen Marktsegmenten - Fernverkehr und internationaler Verkehr - geführt hat. Erkennbar wurde auch, dass der Einsatz sektorspezifischer Regulierung tendenziell zu höheren...

Si les avantages des programmes de fidélité ont été abondamment développés dans la littérature, il est frappant de constater que les recherches existantes n’envisagent pas – ou très peu – le fait que ces derniers puissent avoir des effets négatifs sur le comportement du...

Loyalty programs have been the object of a growing interest in the area of marketing. However, it is quite surprising that there is no generally accepted theoretical or empirical research that study how these programs could elicit negative effects on consumer behavior. Using a two-step method,...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is the latest innovation in the area of media-mediated commerce research. It is about the explosion of applications and services that will become accessible from internet-enabled mobile devices. One of the most popular applications for m-commerce is in financial...

Wireless penetration and the Indian economy have grown significantly over the past few years, but how robust and sustainable is the adoption of wireless services and products? Several papers have discussed India as a wireless service and product market, and sometimes tried to assess quantitative...

This survey paper analyses some of the fundamental economic and management science issues concerning the communications and information economy ,with special emphasis on mobile communications. Are first highlighted major trends such as the balkanisation of the communications networks , and the...

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...

Recent trends in e-finance have shown that mobile technology is growing and with this comes new opportunities for deploying new services for customers. Development of systems on mobile devices can require a lot more resources in the form of development time. There is a lack of documentation as...

Airline Reservation in developing countries is carried out either manually or electronically. Either methods, reservation and payment operations are done in piece-meal fashion; this is cost prohibitive, time consuming and tedious leading to inefficiency. We present an integrated mobile airline...