In this paper, we explore how electronic commerce, the World-Wide Web in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and informationdriven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; with many market-intermediaries (agents and brokers who connect buyers and s...

An application of case-based reasoning is proposed to build an influence diagram for identifying successful new ventures. The decision to invest in new ventures is characterized by incomplete information and uncertainty, where some measures of firm performance are quantitative, while some others are substituted by qualitative indicators. Influence diagrams are used as a model for representing i...

Matthias Häsel, Tobias Kollmann, Nicola Breugst IT Competence in Internet Founder Teams An Analysis of Preferences and Product Innovativity In the Net Economy, numerous startups relying on Internet-based business models have been founded in the recent years. In these ventures IT experts are confronted with different requirements to those of traditional software development. It can thus be assum...

The Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-5) focused on the task of data extraction for tw o distinctly different applications, one within the domain of joint ventures (JV) and the other within the domain o f microelectronics (ME) . For each application, the task could be performed in either English and/or Japanese, giving four combinations : English Joint Ventures, Japanese Joint Venture...

In this paper we explore how blockchain and smart contracts can build trust act as catalysts for sustainable social businesses by supporting the coexistence of economic logics ventures. To achieve draw upon Yunus’ seven principles business to present six emergent questions challenging improve sustainability ventures support fulfilment principles. Our contribution is a model, codifying contract ...

Applying the theory of socially situated cognition, we study how entrepreneurs cognitively process business model construct during early stages launching technology-based new ventures. Through an abductive reasoning procedure, aggregate four underlying cognitive functions and describe these facilitate opportunity development. We examine if entrepreneur’s educational background (STEM vs non-STEM...

Impressive computer-based collections efforts have created storeholds of museum images that are being sought for boundless educational, reference and entertainment opportunities in the new technologies, both because museums contain vast content for these informational products and because there is a general assumption that rights clearance will be easier when approaching one source. But, the de...

This paper examines the development process of sustainable ventures by focusing on three substantive markers, namely the ideas, actions, and exchange relationships articulated and instigated by the entrepreneurs in question. Based on data from 45 sustainability-oriented new ventures, it examines the causal configurations behind the manifestations of these markers using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Com...