Dès 2007, Mary Meeker (Morgan Stanley), la plus célèbre prévisionniste du Web1, annonce que la prochaine plus forte progression est celle des services mobiles, à partir de terminaux très simples à utiliser : l'iPhone 3G, la Wii, le Kindle… Son intuition est la bonne. Depuis cette date,...

Technological development has contributed to transformation of the shopping experience. Consumers are willing to do their shopping using various technologies. This paper discusses the use of Internet as a tool for browsing offers and making online purchases. It has used a measuring model...

In the present electronic era, all companies tend to adopt in some extend internet- based features aiming to be compatible and viable and support food sustainability. In this paper, SMEs in the Food and Beverage sector were surveyed aiming to study the employ in their websites of contemporary...

This work presents a “3 steps–2 aggregation levels” methodological approach for modelling the evolution of the hybrid demand order flow pattern over long time horizons. The hybrid demand is the result of the mutual interaction between the e-commerce and the traditional demand. Thus, its...

The advancement of Internet technology has enabled new formats for selling products in the B2C online auctions. At present, on the major online auction sites, there exist three popular selling formats, namely, the posted price, pure auction and buy-price auction formats. It is an important...

Advertising is the basic source of income for many web businesses. Preparing website layout for the advertisements is a problem faced by many web designers. The ads and other content are placed in several columns. Usually column widths are chosen ad hoc to fit the widest advertising unit. To...

In durable goods markets, many brand name manufacturers, including IBM, HP, Epson, and Lenovo, have adopted dual-channel supply chains to market their products. There is scant literature, however, addressing the product durability and its impact on players’ optimal strategies in a dual-channel...

A Latent Class model is utilized to examine vegetable and livestock producers’ preferences for a number of different features offered by food exchange websites. The results indicate that growers are willing to pay on average $55.69 per month if an online marketplace is offered. Additionally,...

On the agricultural market, like any other market, there are transaction costs such as “discovering what the relevant prices are, the costs of negotiating and concluding a separate contract for each exchange transaction1”, and others. According to our research the average level of...

The first large scale (almost 500 products, 64,300 individual price listings) empirical study of price dispersion based on the data from the Czech Republic’s e‑shops is presented in the paper. First, simple descriptive indicators like average, max, min, median and standard deviation were...