Showrooming is an increasingly popular practic that threatens retailers' performance. This paper adopts the push-pull-mooring framework to understand shopper decision purchase online from a different retailer (competitive showrooming) rather than same visited gather information (loyal showrooming). Going beyond customer motivation get best value, we focus on retailer-situational variables (stor...

Origin of Mentoring1 The Greek poet Homer describes Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as having a loyal friend and advisor by the name of Mentor. While Odysseus was away fighting in the Trojan War, Mentor became a trusted teacher, coach, counselor, and protector of Odysseus’ son Telemachus. Thus, the word “mentor” used today derives from Homer and reflects a process where the mentor guides and protects...

1 In peer-to-peer systems, attrition attacks include both traditional, network-level denial of service attacks as well as application-level attacks in which malign peers conspire to waste loyal peers’ resources. We describe several defenses for the LOCKSS peer-to-peer digital preservation system that help ensure that applicationlevel attrition attacks even from powerful adversaries are less eff...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Scientific knowledge commercialization University-industry collaborations University-industry links Technology transfer University-industry relationships Exchange between science and industry is a prerequisite for innovation and has attracted considerable interest to the role of relationships and interactions in the process of bringing ideas to the market and com...