Several “e-movement” crusaders have discovered that customers spend significant amounts of time researching products they seek before purchasing. In a bid to assist customers in these efforts, and conserve precious time, these organizations offer users suggestions of products they may be interested in. This serves the dual purpose of not just attracting browsers but converting them into buyers....

The motivation for e-marketplace participation for suppliers as well as buyers is closely linked to the perceived outcome of participation and not only in terms of the benefits of joining an emarketplace, but also in terms of possible consequences of not joining. Hence, the central issue is why organisations decide to buy and/or sell goods or services on e-marketplaces. We develop a theoretical...

The purpose of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT, is to assist Federal contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments regarding the availability of commercial "Electronic and Information Technology" products and services with features that support accessibility. It is assumed and recommended that offerers will provide additional contact information ...

Coalition stability is a major requirement in coalition formation. One important problem to achieve stability in n-person game theories is the assumption that the preference of each buyer is publicly known. The coalition is said to be stable if there are no objection by any subset of buyers according to their publicly known preferences. However, such assumption is often unrealistic in typical r...

Screening contracts (or non-linear “menu of contracts”) are frequently used for aligning the incentives in supply chains with private information. In this context, it is assumed that all supply chain parties are strictly (expected) profit maximizing and, therefore, sensible to even arbitrarily small pay-off differences between contract alternatives. However, previous behavioral work on contract...

this article is arranged based on a research plan which its goals is evaluation of the possibility of applying flexible human resource structure in industrial organizations. in this research, applying conditions of just in time (j.i.t) and flexible manufacturing systems (f.m.s) have brought up as a pioneer flexible movements in industrial units and based on based two phenomenon, the nescessity ...

abstract background: pain resulting from muscle cramps is one of the most common outcomes of hemodialysis. one of the mechanisms associated with muscle cramps is unnatural muscle metabolism. because acupressure improves muscle metabolism through the releasing of energy, this study was performed with the purpose of determining the impact of acupressure on muscle cramps. materials and methods: th...

To inform theory and to investigate the practical application of prediction markets in a setting where the distribution of information across agents is critical, we conducted markets designed to forecast post-IPO valuations before a particularly unique IPO: Google. Because prediction markets allow us to infer the distribution of information before the IPO, the combination of results from our ma...