There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically … analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products-books and CDs. Using a … data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

Information intermediaries deliver information about a supplier's product. They are paid by those same suppliers they … certify. This introduces conflicts of interests as the intermediaries want to retain customers by delivering truthful … would otherwise entitle them to. The paper compares two options for information intermediaries: either propose a menu of …

There have been many claims that the Internet represents a new nearly "frictionless market." Our research empirically … analyzes the characteristics of the Internet as a channel for two categories of homogeneous products---books and CDs. Using a … data set of over 8,500 price observations collected over a period of 15 months, we compare pricing behavior at 41 Internet …

Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially … costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive trading and comes close to …

This article examines the role of Internet based labour market intermediaries in coordinating job seeker …. A comparative analysis of job offers posted on the Internet with those posted in newspapers shows that search engine …

An interesting phenomenon has been the emergence of “infomediaries” in the form of Internet referral services in many … conditions necessary for the infomediary to exist and explain how they would evolve with the growth of the Internet. The role of …

development among intermediaries in an extended supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – A two‐stage research design combining … critical incidents of web site development which were further examined via a quantitative survey of intermediaries to test for … progress the adoption of web site technology by intermediaries, suggesting the development of networks of relationships …

trade variety for volume, firms face greater competition from the new pooled-products, and intermediaries capture much of …