While much attention has been given to reputation mechanisms to deter fraudulent behaviour in online auctions, we know little about the nature of disputes or the types of problems that users face. This is an exploratory analysis of 129 disputes for five different types of products that were sold on eBay. In the analysis we find seven different types of disputes including poor quality, slow ship...

OBJECTIVE To describe the judiciary's approach to parent-physician disputes over the care of sick children. DATA SOURCES Court publications. STUDY SELECTION Fifty parent-physician disagreements over the care of children led to physician requests for court intervention and resulted in judicial opinions published by the court. The opinions describe 66 children from 20 states. DATA SYNTHESIS...

social capital (sc) is important as much as physical capital and theorists discussed its functions in enhancement of countries. successfulness in international fields is far behind reach without due attention to capacity of countries. these capacities are known as competitiveness capacity (cc) in political literature. twelve indexes have been recognized for the cc which covers different dimensi...