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Would you like to be a prosumer? Information revelation, personalization and price discrimination in electronic markets
Morasch, Karl; Bandulet, Martin - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2003
Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost …. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of …Elektronischer Handel und flexible Produktionstechnologien ermöglichen eine kostengünstige Personalisierung ehemals …
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E-consumer and the drive behind customer satisfaction: the Chinese online
Omar, Maktoba - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 3/4, pp. 271-287
The purpose of this paper is to present and validate a model of factors influencing the customers' satisfaction on internet shopping in China. To attain these, a questionnaire was sent to 300 potential Chinese customers. The findings indicate that there are 15 items that influence consumer...
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Homogenous goods markets: an empirical study of price dispersion on the internet
Warin, Thierry; Leiter, Daniel - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 5, pp. 514-529
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of price dispersion in homogenous goods markets. Modern economic theory suggests that markets will inevitably have information asymmetries resulting in equilibriums with price dispersion even when goods are perfectly homogenous. Earlier...
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Building consumers’ confidence in adopting e-commerce: A Malaysian case
Ahmed, Mohiuddin; Hussein, Ramlah; Minakhatun, Rashidah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Consumers’ confidence on the online transactions is vital for the continuous growth and development of electronic … online transactions as well as the perceived trust and reliability of online vendors in order to influence consumers’ overall … confidence in e-commerce transactions. On the basis of responses from 163 participants, it is concluded that the major concerns …
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Initial online trust formation: the role of company location and web assurance
Fisher, Richard; Chu, S. Zoe - In: Managerial Auditing Journal 24 (2009) July, pp. 542-563
effectiveness of various trust-building mechanisms applicable to international vendors is warranted, as is research advancing the … understanding of why assurance seals appear to be ineffective as trust-building mechanisms. The implications of using students as … implementing targeted trust-building mechanisms to compensate for being at a competitive disadvantage to their domestic …
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Analysis of social network applications for organic agrifood products
Scuderi, Alessandro; Sturiale, Luisa - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 10 (2014) 2, pp. 176-189
This study was intended to frame current changes of farms and consumers in the new virtual contexts. This research analysed consumers' different purchasing attitudes in a traditional or virtual context. Here, we presented the first results of an in-progress research that may explain the new...
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Sequential and Temporal Dynamics of Online Opinion
Godes, David; Silva, José C. - In: Marketing Science 31 (2012) 3, pp. 448-473
We investigate the evolution of online ratings over time and sequence. We first establish that there exist two distinct dynamic processes, one as a function of the amount of time a book has been available for review and another as a function of the sequence of reviews themselves. We find that,...
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Do consumers who conduct online research also post online reviews? A model of the relationship between online research and review posting behavior
Punj, Girish - In: Marketing Letters 24 (2013) 1, pp. 97-108
The purpose of the research is to investigate whether consumers who conduct online product research also more likely to post online product reviews. An information theory-based classification algorithm is used to estimate the likelihood of a consumer posting an online review conditional on...
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Vertikale Kooperation im Oligopol Die Gestaltung der Genossenschaftsorganisation als strategischer Zug
Higl, Michael - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2003
In cooperatives, allocation of competences results in an organizational form which differs from other enterprises. The members partly remain independent in doing their business and delegate only a part of their competence to the jointly owned firm. Therefore a cooperative is neither a single...
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Would You Like to Be a Prosumer? Information Revelation, Personalization and Price Discrimination in Electronic Markets
Bandulet, Martin; Morasch, Karl - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2003
Electronic commerce and flexible manufacturing allow personalization of initially standardized products at low cost …. Will customers provide the information necessary for personalization? Assuming that a consumer can control the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022077