With the development of Web Economics, network exhibition came into being. Network and reality exhibition complement each other and develop together. New opportunities and challenges are promoting exhibition industry of Wuhan, which based on innovation, make full use of modern technology, electronic commerce and service, efforts to expand its geographical space and space. Exhibition industry of...

Conflicting and complex forces are shaping the diffusion patterns of the Internet and e-commerce in South Asia. Drawing upon the literature on institutional theory, we explore the drivers and inhibitors of the Internet in South Asian countries. We examine the influence of the three pillars of institutions (Scott, 1995) on the digital world of South Asia. The paper discusses how regulatory, norm...

The recent advent of e-contracting — examples include industry marketplaces and e-procurement systems of US automakers, e-auctions, and e-commerce — provides a natural stimulus for the study of the interaction of security and economic incentives. As security theorists have noted, (1) communication networks are only imperfectly secure and (2) the degree of insecurity depends on economic incentiv...

Acknowledgements: The authors thank Sinan Aral and workshop participants at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics and the Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research for helpful comments on this research. The authors acknowledge Carnegie Mellon’s iLab, the Marketing Science Institute and Wharton Interactive Media Initiative, and the WPP-Google Marketing Resea...

Regulation and the Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Author(s): Thomas W. Gilligan, William J. Marshall and Barry R. Weingast Source: The Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Apr., 1989), pp. 35-61 Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The Booth School of Business, University of Chicago and The University of Chicago Law School Stable URL: http:...

introduction: cost estimation is a important tool which assist the managers to plan and to control the economic functions of the organization. the present study aims to identify the cost of a cesarean surgery in one of the first class public hospitals in iran. methodology: reviewing all expenses of the hospital documents in the financial unit, the cost of a cesarean surgery was determined throu...

a Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan b School of Public Affairs & School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, 411 N Central Avenue, Ste 480-E, MC 3720, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0687, USA c Australian Energy Regulator, Level 19, 175 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia d Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University,...

Navigation design for web-based information systems (e.g. e-commerce sites, intranet solutions) that ignores user-participation reduces the system’s value and can even lead to system failure. In this paper we introduce a usercentered, explorative approach to re-designing navigation structures of web-based information systems, and describe how it can be implemented in order to provide flexibilit...