Received: 29 December 2011 Revised: 4 October 2012 2nd Revision: 27 July 2013 3rd Revision: 29 November 2013 Accepted: 2 April 2014 Abstract Mobile technologies have increasingly become an integral part of individuals’ work and personal lives. Although research exists in this domain, most of it focuses on the customer’s adoption factors rather than assessing the value or the impact of mobile bu...

the concept of business model has attracted increasing attention in recent years. specifically, growing number of internet providers on mobile phones are challenged by the selection of appropriate business model. considering the importance of a good business model in the firm’s success, this research investigates the business models selection process of internet providers on mobile phones in ir...

2 The Asia/Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. A/PARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. A/PARC ma...

The Internet appears to playing a role in the restructuring of some traditional business sectors in which some organisations profit and some decline. Travel agencies are being subjected to increased competition from virtual on-line travel agencies. These agencies do not possess the traditional retail outlets but exist predominantly on the Web. In addition, airline companies and travel wholesale...

This paper explores how finance can better support the diffusion of Grassroots Innovations (GIs), community-led solutions for net-zero transitions. We examine case UK community energy (CE), across three ‘diffusion pathways’: niche replication (growth in number projects), individual scaling an organisation's scale) and collective (a confederation GIs). investigate each pathway through analysis a...

A method for the spatial normalization and reorientation of diffusion tensor (DT) fields is presented. Spatial normalization of tensor fields requires an appropriate reorientation of the tensor on each voxel, in addition to its relocation into the standardized space. This appropriate tensor reorientation is determined from the spatial normalization transformation and from an estimate of the und...

For simulations of fluid dynamics in astrophysics, physical viscosity and diffusion are typically neglected. However, in this high Reynolds number regime, real fluids become highly turbulent and turbulent processes mediate substantial transport of momentum and heat that is diffusive in nature. In the absence of models for these processes, code-dependent numerical effects dominate how diffusion ...

This paper considers the economics of digitalisation, defined as the digital coding of information and the growing productivity gains in processing and transmission it enables. It examines the effects of this process on existing models of the firm, industry structure and innovation. The diffusion and adoption of digital innovations are then illustrated by the example of the automobile industry....

This paper focuses on the slowness of diffusion of electronic commerce (EC), particularly in the business-to-consumer side. The theme is approached by analysing emerging Web-services in the travel services industry. We report on a field study of Web-sites of 294 travel agencies, tour operators and transportation services companies. By surveying and evaluating the current services we hope to she...

We discuss price variations distributions in foreign exchange markets, characterizing them both in calendar and business time frameworks. The price dynamics is found to be the result of two distinct processes, a multi-variance diffusion and an error process. The presence of the latter, which dominates at short time scales, leads to indeterminacy principle in finance. Furthermore, dynamics does ...