The internet presumably reduces search costs and creates an “efficient” market. Prior research quantifying the dispersion in the electronic market, however, has yielded mixed results. Some recent research has documented very low levels of dispersion in internet attributing it to the use of...

Purpose Cyber terrorism poses a serious technology risk to businesses and the economies they operate in. Cyber terrorism is a digital attack on computers, networks or digital information systems, carried out to coerce people or governments to further the social or political objectives of the...

Purpose – Electronic markets are known to be distinct from, and more efficient than, the conventional retail markets. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect on pricing in relation to proximity to a culturally and socially significant peak shopping day and the moderating effects of...