Retail banking is rapidly driven by the use of innovative technologies. This is especially true for direct brokers that rely on the fast execution of stock market transactions via electronic distribution channels. Based on the framework of the resource based view we evaluate the contribution of front-end applications, middleware systems and back-end technologies to competitive advantage of dire...

The Indian footwear industry has developed substantial links in the global production network. But, this industry is still dominated by firms that cater largely to the domestic market through the artisanal production system. Specific footwear centres and sections of firms in traditional footwear clusters have established strong relations with the export market. Still, there are only few firms (...

The standard model of pass-through in imperfectly competitive markets focuses on double marginalization of rents and highlights the importance of the curvature of demand curve. We develop a model of equilibrium prices in a supply chain with financing intermediaries to incorporate credit rationing faced by wholesale traders. The financing intermediaries help relax the quantitative credit limits ...

The aims are Knowing the marketing channel of curly red chili, function carried out by chili trading institution, Calculating trade system costs, margins, farmer's share and in institutions involved activities, efficiency system, research was Seterio Village, Banyuasin III District, Regency. method used is a survey for farmers (chili traders). data were analyzed using formula profits, share, in...

How costly is poor governance of market intermediaries? Using a unique trade level data set from the stock market in Pakistan, we ...nd that brokers when trading on their own behalf, manipulate prices and earn rates of return that are 50-90 percentage points higher than the outside investors. Neither market timing nor liquidity provision by brokers can explain the pro...tability di¤erential. In...

Content-Based Publish-Subscribe (CBPS) is an asynchronous messaging paradigm that supports a highly dynamic and many-to-many communication pattern based on the content of the messages themselves. In general, a CBPS system has three distinct parties Content Publishers , Content Brokers, and Subscribers working in a highly decoupled fashion. The ability to seamlessly scale on demand has made CBPS...

We propose that social entrepreneurs may act as altruistic brokers helping their beneficiaries patch the structural holes separate disenfranchised and marginalized individuals groups from opportunities, resources, capabilities available to more privileged actors. test our model on a database of received funding Schwab Foundation Ashoka. Our case analysis frequency performed in NVivo shows entre...

The OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS), which is a standard specification for data-centric publish/subscribe communications, has shown promise for use in internet of things (IoT) applications because of its loosely coupled and scalable nature, and support for multiple QoS properties, such as reliable and real-time message delivery in dynamic environments. However, the current OMG DDS specifica...

Why do brokers charge per share commissions to institutional traders? What determines the commission charge? The choice of per share commissions as a payment method is puzzling, as commissions are not the most natural way to charge for order execution because costs are not proportional to the trade size and commissions are supposed to deter trading. We contend that commissions, rather than repr...