The music industry has repeatedly expressed concerns over potentially devastating impacts of online music sharing. Initial attempts to control online file sharing have been primarily through consumer education and legal action against the operators of networks that facilitated file sharing....

Widespread e-commerce activity on the Internet has led to new opportunities to collect vast amounts of micro-level market and non-market data. In this paper we share our experiences in collecting, validating, storing and analyzing large Internet based data sets in the area of online auctions,...

Product assortment and availability are important determinants of sales success for firms of industrial commodity products. Well-known pricing and promotion strategies for differentiated products do not translate well to such products where price is closely tied to the cost of the products....