The technological developments of recent decades have allowed companies to collect staggering amounts of consumer data by offering “free” access to digital products like search engines and social-media platforms. Scholars in a variety of fields recognize that this practice rep-resents a new...

This is an attempt for a comprehensive analysis of the international economic law rules relevant for digital trade. At the core of this enquiry are the multilateral rules in the framework of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It examines how they presently regulate digital trade, as well as...

The Internet stimulates trade. Using a gravity equation of trade among 56 countries, we find no evidence of an effect of the Internet on total trade flows in 1995 and only weak evidence of an effect in 1996. However, we find an increasing and significant impact from 1997 to 1999. Specifically,...

The 2015 FCC decision on Net Neutrality and the debate over ICANN reform raise the question about the future structure of the Internet. The paper concludes that the centrifugalism due to fundamental economics and national priorities will transform the current system into a loose and partly...

Net neutrality is now the law of the land. The FCC argued in the 2015 Open Internet Order that the rules were necessary to preserve the free and open Internet. But do the FCC’s justifications for its rules comport with economic and marketplace realities? This paper proposes to examine the...

Over the course of a quarter of a millennium industrial capitalism has emerged from four deep recessions brought on by the bursting of commodity bubbles to achieve sustained economic growth by instituting progressive policies. These policies promote market success by reinforce entrepreneurial...

Electronic Commerce is shaping many of our daily life tasks and with the introduction to new aspect of social interaction on the net a new phenomenon is emerging in the arena of e-commerce known as social commerce. Within this new trend in social commerce Instagram a simple yet powerful app is...

A BRICS Internet, the Euro Cloud, the Iranian Internet. Governments across the world eager to increase control over the World Wide Web are tearing it apart. Iran seeks to develop an Internet free of Western influences or domestic dissent. The Australian government places restrictions on health...

The study investigates factors that effect E-commerce adoption rate by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Thailand. Based on Rogers’ Innovation Diffusion theoretical framework, five perceived characteristics of innovation are considered as factors affect E-commerce adoption rate....

The business today has been affected by the advent of ICT. They revolutionized all sectors of business as well as tourism. The paper aims to present the business models, applied in the Bulgarian hospitality industry. In the literature review is presented the influence on ICT on hospitality...