Electronic auctions have rapidly increased in popularity, but the consequences of switching to an electronic auction are unclear. In part this is because multiple changes occur at the same time so one can only observe the combined effect of these changes and not the effect of each separate...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether an existing sourcing strategy can effectively supply products of appropriate quality with acceptable levels of product waste if applied to an international perishable product supply chain. The authors also analyse whether the...

Because of discrete bid increments, bidders at electronic auctions engage in shading instead of revealing their valuations, which would occur under the commonly assumed second-price rule. We demonstrate that misspecifying the pricing rule can lead to biased estimates of the latent valuation...

This book develops a structured methodology that allows to systematically analyze emotions in auctions. It provides a unified framework for emotional bidding in auctions, which comprises the bidders' processes of cognitive reasoning and emotional processing, and a methodology for measuring...

Internet-Auktionen haben sich zu einem der erfolgreichsten Geschäftsmodelle im E-Commerce entwickelt. Die stetig steigende Anzahl von Auktionen beim Martkführer eBay zeugen von einer zunehmenden Beliebtheit solcher Auktionen. Doch welche Determinanten beeinflussen den Erfolg einer...

Internet auctions for consumers are among the most popular and most successful business models in electronic commerce. Research so far, however, has focused on prerequisites and consequences of auctions as a marketing instrument of suppliers. Even though it is a key success factor from a...

A procurement contract is granted by a bureaucrat (the auctioneer)who is interested in a low price and a bribe from the provider.The optimal bids and bribes are derived based on an iid private costassumption. In the experiment, bribes are negatively framed (betweensubjectstreatment) to capture...