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Complementary Online Services in Competitive Markets: How Firms Should Adjust Their Strategies Due to Network Effects

Pang, Min-Seok - 2011

A growing number of firms are strategically utilizing IT and the Internet to provide online services to consumers who buy their products. Online services differ from traditional services, such as maintenance services, because they often promote interactivity among the firm’s customers and...

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Business use of branding strategies for e-commerce benefits

Onojaefe, Darlington Peter - 2008

This thesis identifies and examines evidence of e-commerce in three large businesses (Woolworths, Momentum and Santam) focusing on their Internet branding strategies, the impact of management actions and how those actions contribute to e-commerce success. Case study was used to assemble evidence...

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Performance Implications of Multi-Channel Strategic Decisions by Incumbent Retailers: The Role of Order of Entry and Degree of Inter-Channel Coordination

Pentina, Iryna - 2008

The rapidly intensifying adoption of the Internet channel for marketing and sales by incumbent bricks-and-mortar retailers underscores the importance of assessing the impact of the online channel strategies on firm performance in the dynamic competitive environment. At the time when store-based...

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Privacy, Fair Information Practices and the Fortune 500: The Virtual Reality of Compliance

Schwaig, Kathy Stewart; Kane, Gerald C.; Storey, Veda C. - 2005

Corporate information privacy policies are receiving increased attention in the information privacy debate. Prior studies used Web surveys to analyze the content of online information privacy policies and to assess whether or not the policies comply with a standard known as the Fair Information...

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Mass Customization with Vertically Differentiated Products

Loginova, Oksana; Wang, X. Henry - University of Missouri; University of Missouri - 2008

most preferred variety and aquality valuation. Customization provides ideal varieties but has noeffect on product qualities … either both firms customize, only the higher quality firmcustomizes, or no firm customizes. Even if customization is costless … welfare changeswith the fixed cost of customization. Interestingly, the relationship isnot always monotonic. Contrasting with …

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Implementing Vanilla ERP Systems: Factors to Consider in Strategy, Business Alignment, and Customization

Yick, Janice - 2011

This paper was completed as part of the final research component in the University of Oregon Applied Information Management Master's Degree Program [see htpp://aim.uoregon.edu].

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Gaining Trust Through Online Privacy Protection: Self-Regulation, Mandatory Standards, or Caveat Emptor

Tang, Zhulei; Hu, Yu Jeffrey; Smith, Michael D. - 2007

Trust is particularly important in online markets to facilitate the transfer of sensitive consumer information to online retailers. In electronic markets, various proposals have been made to facilitate these information transfers. We develop analytic models of hidden information to analyze the...

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An Assessment of Subsidy Removal Effects on and Future Sustainability for Livestock Sector of in the Northern Jordanian Badia

Jetter, Christopher - 2008

This study investigates the rationale behind the 2007 removal of the fodder subsidy in Jordan and the effects this had on livestock owners in the Northern Badia. Furthermore, it examines possible solutions for improving the efficiency of the sector as well as its sustainability. The...

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Cross-country generalizability of quality-of-lifescores in atopic dermatitis

Rencz, Fanni - 2019

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The constraints SMME's experience whilst attempting to recover skills levies from the W&RSETA

Hess, Allison - 2009

This thesis explores the barriers/constraints that the SMME may experience whilst attempting to recover their skills levies from the wholesale and retail SETA (W&RSETA).Skills development legislation was introduced in South Africa to address the previous disparities in education and training....

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