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Buyers are typically unaware of the full set of offers when making a purchase. This paper examines how international trade interacts with this problem of incomplete information. Sellers must communicate their offers through costly price posting, but cannot reach all buyers. Consequently, no market clearing price exists, and sellers randomize over an equilibrium price distribution. Letting selle...

Increasing role of services in developed economies around the world combined with ubiquitous presence of computer networks and information technologies result in rapid growth of e-services. Markets for e-services often require flexible pricing to be efficient and therefore frequently use auctions to satisfy this requirement. However, auctions in e-service markets are recurring since typically e...

Over the last years most business processes changed on various dimensions (e.g. flexibility, interconnectivity, coordination style, autonomy) due to market conditions, organizational models, and usage scenarios of information systems. This trends lead to connected and integrated information systems increasingly based on Web services. Web services promise the realization of a "serviceoriented ar...

Advances in healthcare information technology have enabled new models for electronic delivery of healthcare services. In this article, we present the case of electronic delivery of radiological services and describe the market-based and technological factors that have led to the development of Internet-based service models for flexible delivery of radiological services. Specifically, we describ...

In the near future, providers of mobile services will face increasing competition. Therefore, the ability to design, develop and deploy reliable contextaware services fast and easily will become essential. We introduce an agent-based Serviceware Framework assisting service providers in developing innovative services, thus reducing the time-to-market of the respective applications. Within the Be...

The proposed research integrates theories of demand-driven innovation and market value creation to explain (i) the role of demand in driving innovation in information security and (ii) the role of innovation in projecting firm performance thus determining firm market value. Time series and event study analyses are applied to show that malicious attacks, primarily those that exploit software vul...