Abstract I examine the sharing economy using a contractual approach pioneered by Cheung (1969, The Theory of Share Tenancy: With Special Application to Asian Agriculture and the First Phase of Taiwan Land Reform . Chicago: Chicago University Press). Progress in information technology that...

Abstract The prevalence of the Internet Plus model and mobile applications have brought people into the era of sharing economy, thus accelerating the generation of the “gig-worker.” Foreign experiences have tended to classify gig-workers as employees or as an additional employment category....

A family of ascending package auction models is introduced in which bidders may determine their own packages on which to bid. In the proxy auction (revelation game) versions, the outcome is a point in the core of the exchange economy for the reported preferences. When payoffs are linear in money...

There will always be inequalities in economic development within a country. The composition of the population, the presence of large economic players, the presence of good schools and universities make the ascendance of a population towards economic improvement easier in one region compared with...

Zusammenfassung “What’s Mine is Yours”, das populäre Buch von Rachel Botsmann und Roo Rogers ist zum Slogan der sogenannten „Share Economy” geworden, unter der kollaborativer Konsum seit einigen Jahren einen Boom erfährt und auch in der wissenschaftlichen Diskussion einen gewissen...

Zusammenfassung Neben dem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck durch einen Zuwachs an Häusern stellen besonders die neuen Medien und ein gewandeltes Buchungsverhalten das Management hochklassiger Hotels vor enorme Herausforderungen. Dabei wird das Wissen um relevante Entscheidungsfaktoren für eine...

Fresh food e-commerce has become a burgeoning branch in online markets and changed the circulation of fresh food. Concerning the background of e-commerce, this study tries to relate suppliers' awareness of promoting fresh food business with the logistic obstacles and consumer impacts. The...

Popularity of electronic business has changed the way people are transacting businesses around the globe. People are engaged in online businesses (like buying, selling, promoting or collaborating) without any physical or face to face contact with the trading partners. Correspondingly, the...

Rapid development of e-commerce and mobile communication opens a new era of big data. In this article, the authors put big data and e-commerce security together. They construct electronic commerce security system from these aspects: the creation of database, the security of information storage,...