This paper explores the forces contributing to the transformation of buyer behavior when buyers use the World Wide Web for making purchase decisions. These forces include trends in the marketplace, where products are becoming more complex and plentiful, as well as the emergence of Web-based marketing and functions. The interactive nature of electronic sales, like Web-based marketing, makes this...

Fisheries are understood within a binary frame that is both spatialized into the First and Third Worlds and founded upon a developmentalist discourse of fisheries that produces the conditions for capitalism. The result is an inevitable march toward privatization of resources abstractly understood and their utilization by individuals as capital. The Third World is allowed to diverge from this in...

An inclusive merger mechanism became one option for the Nigerian banking industry in response to a Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy to increase the minimum paid-up share capital requirement of Nigerian banks from N2 billion to N25 billion in July 2004, with December 31, 2005 as deadline. More than half of the 89 banks in Nigeria as at July 2004 were engaged in one form of merger. The study obje...

Predictions of the ocean-atmosphere flux of dimethyl sulfide will be improved by understanding what controls seasonal and regional variations in dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) production. To investigate the influence of high levels of irradiance including ultraviolet radiation (UVR), on DMSP synthesis rates (lDMSP) and inorganic carbon fixation (lPOC) by natural phytoplankton communities, ni...

We investigate the performance of a full-cost heuristic in a service setting. In our model, a service firm determines the amount of capacity, a price, and a price discount each period. Based upon the price, a stochastic number of customers will place service orders. If too many orders arrive in a period, the firm will offer a price discount to those customers willing to back order and accept se...

•Historical evidence could help identify factors influencing the retirement of CFPPs•We identified most important ages•We forecast some countries to face considerable hurdles retiring plants Coal power are single largest contributor global heating. With new constructions slowing globally, there is an urgent need accelerate existing plants. numerous barriers hampering this, speeds differ conside...

In the next few decades, it is possible that all we talk about will be weather. Nowadays, discussion on climate change tends to effects of our landscape and living conditions, whom blame, how best mitigate it. These discussions are becoming stale. We know where comes from, what does, stop it—but stuck in a political social-economic order makes nearly impossible anything serious way without radi...

Transit agencies around the country have made significant investments since the late 1990s to provide improved service to cyclist-transit users (CTUs), that is, transit riders who bring bicycles with them by using bicycle racks installed on buses. Use of these bus bicycle racks appears to vary significantly from transit system to transit system. It is unclear, however, what specific factors con...

There is extensive research examining the benefits of relational and transactional governance in buyer-supplier relations. Research on the implementation of, or evolution in, these governance modes however is lacking. In this paper we present the results of a longitudinal case study of the governance choices of Nissan and its suppliers over an eight year period after Nissan’s merger with Renaul...

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the development of the Internationalization Process Model (IP model) through the use of a resource network perspective, based on industrial network theory. According to the IP model, firms internationalize through an incremental path characterized by small steps that are dependent on the firms and the networks resource combination. In this paper, it is ...