Comparative Study of Electronic Market Efficiency : Bricks and Mortar Vs . Bricks and Clicks
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Beyond the rhetoric, how has widespread adoption of B2B and B2C ecommerce actually impacted large bricks and mortar businesses? In this paper we review some of the economic approaches to the analysis of efficiency as well as preliminary work establishing hypotheses to be tested on a sample set, the answers we expect to see, and the implications for the Semantic Web, should all the rhetoric turn out to be just that.
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