The importance of Internet for the travel and tourism industry has increased rapidly over the last few years … Internet usage for travel information and shopping by using representative annual panel data from 2003 to 2007 on the 17 … Spanish Autonomous Communities. Our results indicate that the use of Internet for information reasons depends basically on the …

Computer technologies, in general, and Internet technologies, in particular, have had a tremendous impact on all … to download copyrighted works from the Internet impact assessments of copying behaviour. Copyright Springer Science …

While there have been numerous studies of on-line shopping behaviour, the impact of internet adoption upon island …

The Internet is a tool with the potential to enable consumers to effectively participate in collective bargaining in … Internet era. First, some theoretical perspectives on how on-line consumer networks have the potential to be a new source of … countervailing power are introduced. Next, the potential for consumer countervailing power in the Internet era is discussed. A case …

IPTS recently acquired a consumer internet clickstream database containing the full set of annual (2011) clickstream … records for about 25.000 internet users in the five largest EU economies (UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain). It contains … time spend on each webpage and socio-economic characteristics of the internet users. This study describes a model of …

Dada la importancia que está adquiriendo Internet como método complementario a la venta en los establecimientos … compra en Internet y su incidencia en la decisión de compra y en las intenciones futuras de comportamiento hacia el sistema …. Los resultados obtenidos permiten concluir que la comodidad es el principal motivo de uso del medio Internet como canal de …

Analysen zufolge etwa 800 000, bis Ende 2001 rund vier Mill. Menschen in China über Mobiltelefone in das Internet einwählen. …Die Volksrepublik China ist, nach den USA, der zweitgrößte Markt für Mobiltelefone. Bereits heute nutzen 59,3 Mill …

Like many countries keen to maintain a rapid pace of development, China has undertaken an ambitious programme of … direct investment except in well defined roles such as in equipment provision. The difficult policy problem China has faced … however has been in creating a set of institutions that encourage development but allow for the maintenance of control. China …

The proposition that the technology of the Internet and Web offers a basis for culturally-neutral, computer … the Internet and Web were neither fully neutral nor fully specific to the websites' 'home' cultures. Cultural …