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Purpose The study aims to elaborate the author's basic viewpoints on how economics should view the Internet from four aspects. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews the existing literature on this topic, and summarizes key findings and conclusions of these researches. Findings The...
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E-commerce is growing rapidly on a global scale. Among many products purchased via the Internet, clothing is the first in terms of purchase frequency. However, there are growth barriers for this product category, which include, first of all, the client's fear of matching clothing to their own...
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A succinct exploration of business sustainability via an e-commerce platform was examined in the study. Its myth and reality permeate its adoption, use, and acceptability within the context of our economic, social, and environmental assumptions were also validated. To achieve its aim,...
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Digital platforms facilitate the flow of information and the execution of transactions. This study investigates the impact of signals from platform-provided online information regarding search and experience attributes of products on the prices of their offline transactions. We situate our...
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The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...
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This paper analyzes the strategic opportunities enabled by one of Booking.com's managerial innovations introduced in 2015-16: a new online discount feature. Focusing on the hospitality and online booking platforms, we explore the role of the heterogeneity in characteristics that make...
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Over the last years, several reports highlighted the market power of very large online platforms that are gatekeeping intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with anti-competitive practices in these platforms....
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This paper examines the role research and development (R&D) plays in technology progress for a sample of OECD and Asian economies from 1980 to 1995. An empirical model is estimated which relates total factor productivity to domestic and foreign R&D activity, trade, and information technology and...
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