Intermediation approaches integration via medium, as does interdisciplinarity via field/content, while both involve concerns of methodology. "Media" are distinguished by the perceptual acts required for their constitution (cf McLuhan, 1964) by the relationship to the body which they institute. Intermediation integrates, without eliminating, multiple perceptual acts and bodily relationships. Thu...

The theoretical literature concerning supply chain intermediation is surveyed to develop a framework of five intermediary states. Data collected on 58 electronic healthcare portals are used to test hypotheses concerning intermediation states, growth strategies and firm profitability, in a sample representing both traditional and electronic intermediaries. The study finds a positive relationship...

This paper attempts to explain how cost of intermediation can be reduced. One solution we postulate is subsidizing the cost of intermediation. The model uses ex-ante identical, spatially separated agents in an overlapping-generations framework. Agents receive relocation shock when they become old. We conclude that government cannot subsidize the cost of intermediation completely but it can redu...