This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

The necessity of considering the three main faces of informational security mentioned in the title of the paper derives from the accumulation of the importance of the data circulating in the mobile environment for organizations, with the existence of numerous dangers and threats that target...

The research purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to test and verify the influences of fashion attentiveness on mobile communication in the context of China, and second, to analyze how fashion attentiveness moderate other demographical variables' influence on mobile Internet use, and...

We quantify how user mobile Internet usage relates to unique characteristics of the mobile Internet. In particular, we focus on examining how the mobile-phone-based content generation behavior of users relates to content usage behavior. The key objective is to analyze whether there is a positive...

With more and more retailers claimed their strategic layout of Omni-channel retailing, and the model of offline to mobile regarded as a shortcut to carry it out. In this paper, we construct a consumer choice model in which both the risk of direct marketing channel and the searching cost of the...

This study highlights the extent to which rights of mobile phone and internet consumers are respected by the most important operators in Romania, namely Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, in the context of accelerated technological changes on a highly competitive market. The research is focused on...

This model discusses mobile network operators' (MNOs) incentives to invest in their network facilities such as new 4G networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due to the roaming agreements it will be shown that...

The research purpose of this paper is threefold: first, to test and verify the influences of fashion attentiveness on mobile communication in the context of China, and second, to analyze how fashion attentiveness moderate other demographical variables' influence on mobile Internet use, and...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the adoption of mobile Internet in a developing country. This paper presents an application of the Extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model. The model was adapted with a construct Quality of Technology (QT) represented by...

This study highlights the extent to which rights of mobile phone and internet consumers are respected by the most important operators in Romania, namely Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote, in the context of accelerated technological changes on a highly competitive market. The research is focused on...