Open innovation has recently attracted considerable attention in both academic and practical fields. The effects of information and communication technology (ICT) and in- and extra-role knowledge sharing (KS) on open innovation remain unknown. This study aims to fill this research gap. We...

The use and popularity of online auctions is exploding all over the world. Bidding strategies are important because they are related to an auction's final price and ultimately its revenue. This study investigates the bidding strategies adopted by online bidders and the factors of the bidders,...

Online auctions have undergone rapid development in recent years. New features of online auctions, together with new bidding strategies different from those used in offline auctions, make research in this area compelling. The existing research mainly focuses on the description of bidding...

Nowadays, it is important for auction websites to obtain bidder loyalty. This study investigated the mediating effect of consumer perceptions between technological/brand stimuli and bidder loyalty to an online auction website by applying the traditional and evolutionary...

Online agent bidding is seen as a win–win solution for both bidders and auctioneers in online auctions. However, it has not been as widely adopted as expected. Based on information systems (IS) habit literature, we developed the agent bidding habit and use model (ABHUM) to investigate the...

Introduction: the central question -- The pre-recognition period (1949-1972) -- The Whitlam/Fraser period (1972-1983) -- The Hawke era (1983-1989) -- The Hawke/Keating period (1989-1996) -- The Howard era (1996-2007) -- The Rudd period (2007-2010) -- Findings and conclusions

This study presents an emergent explanation of PTA formation, which suggests that the systematic diffusion of preferential trade agreements can be understood as emergent phenomena generated by local and simple interactions among individual states. Specifically, we start with an assumption that...

This article studies location decisions and network configurations of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Built on the perspective that China's economic transition can be conceptualized as a...

Fingerprinting methods are widely used to quantify sediment provenance at a watershed scale. However, different fingerprinting methods often yield different results for the same watershed. The objectives are to discuss in detail the performance of five fingerprinting approaches, compare the...