Playing piggy(bank) in the middle: Philanthropic foundations’ roles as intermediaries

Working the Middle: Roles and Challenges of Intermediaries

Health giving patterns of philanthropic foundations.

Intermediaries in E-Commerce: Value Creation Roles

Very early in the evolution of e-commerce, predictions were made that a significant degree of disintermediation would occur, i.e., that middlemen would be eliminated from the value chain through the use of the Internet. The reasoning was as follows. The economic benefit of middlemen, or intermediaries, is that they reduce transaction costs for functions that are outside the firm (Coase, 1937). ...

A system of scientific medicine. Philanthropic foundations in the Flexner era

investigation of the Harveian antecedents of Glisson's concept of irritability, and a number of seminal essays on different aspects of J. B. Van Helmont's work: his concept of disease, his concept of "Gas", and a long study and translation of his concept of "biological time". Pagel was a historian of the old school who believed, together with Helene Metzger, that "L'Historien doit se faire cont...

Small and Medium Enterprises using Software as a Service: Exploring the different roles of intermediaries

Software as a Service (SaaS) can provide significant benefits to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) due to advantages like ease of access, 7*24 availability, and utility pricing. However, underlying the SaaS delivery model is often the assumption that SMEs will directly interact with the SaaS vendor and use a self-service approach. In practice, we see the rise of SaaS intermediaries who can su...