Regarding the wave of globalization many concepts and definitions associated with social-economic life of today human have changed. Changes caused by the advent of the internet or generally ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in the lives of individual people in different communities...

Consumer review websites leverage the wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central decision faced by consumer review websites. Given a set of reviews, what is the...

Sulla scia della rapida crescita di Groupon.com e degli altri siti di social couponing, un crescente numero di studi ha esaminato i benefici di tale forma promozionale per l’acquirente. Tuttavia si osserva una scarsità di contributi sull’efficacia di tale strumento nella prospettiva dei...

This article aims to analyse various socio-cultural factors such as urban-rural digital divide, regional languages, customs, geographical locations and transport and logistics that affect the development of the electronic commerce in India vis-à-vis the global scenario. During the last decade,...

Thisbookdiscusses the flaws of destination-based taxation and makes the theoretical case for origin-based taxation.

The development of information and telecommunications technology has been a breakthrough in the economy and social life. Both modern and traditional sectors of the economy rely on ICT to manufacture new or much improved products and to modify and improve various types of services, e.g....

Online systems, where users purchase or collect items of some kind, can be effectively represented by temporal bipartite networks where both nodes and links are added with time. We use this representation to predict which items might become popular in the near future. Various prediction methods...

The INCOTERMS rules of the ICC – Paris on the use of domestic and international trade terms facilitate the conduct of global trade. Reference to an INCOTERMS 2010 rule in a sale contract clearly defines the parties' respective obligations and reduces the risk of legal complications and legal...

This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction platforms, and social networks. Given the high level...