Evolving e-commerce technologies increasingly enable organisations to participate in different types of network forms or in electronic markets with previously unidentified trading partners. Virtual organisations (VO) take different forms, have varying lifecycles and involve different scope and depth of relationships. This paper examines the literature in terms of the terminology of virtual orga...

Participating in electronic markets and conducting business online inadvertedly involves the decision to trust other participants. In this paper we consider trust as a concept that self-interested agents populating an electronic marketplace can use to take decisions on who they are going to transact with. We are interested in looking at the effects that trust and its attributes as well as trust...

Previous research suggested that the performance of interorganisational processes can be influenced by eight factors: stakeholders, competition, information technology, market network design, perceived risk, process design, information, and trust. This paper specifically focuses on the consequences of market network redesign for interorganisational processes. A distinction is made between trans...

Though auctions show a prevailing dominance in electronic markets, our understanding of how auctions affect human behaviour is still rather limited. In this paper we analyse the impact of emotional processes on the decision making of human agents in electronic auctions. The analysis is based on a physio-economic study, in which human agents take part in a Dutch auction experiment, while their p...

This chapter explores the private and social desirability of information transparency of a business-to-business (B2B) electronic market that provides an online platform for information transmission. The abundance of transaction data available on the Internet tends to make information more transparent in B2B electronic markets. In such a transparent environment, it becomes easier for firms to ob...

This paper takes the view that providers of electronic markets are to be considered as economic actors in a strategic game played with potential buyers and sellers. The crucial assumption clearly concerns the choice of instruments that a market provider is considered to have at hand. Contrary to large parts of mainstream economic theory, which assume a simple perfect auction market setting guar...

because of endemic parasitological infectious diseases in iran and contaminated vegetables, as one of the most important ways of contamination, carried out a parasitical study on 263 vegetable samples from 44 farms in the suburbs of tehran city, and also 166 vegetables samples from 20 green grocery markets in the same city. from 263 samples of farms 147 cases (65%) of contamination were recorde...

This study investigates a crucial aspect of the reputation mechanism design in electronic markets – the ability of buyers and sellers to revoke or mutually withdraw negative feedback and ratings. Based on an analysis of recent changes in eBay’s feedback mechanism design, we find that the two-way reputation system enables certain sellers to behave opportunistically by revoking negative feedbacks...

egotiations are believed to be an advantageous coordination mechanism for electronic markets that transcend the selling of commodities as well as for the coordination of complex interactions among organisations. However, most e-Commerce negotiation systems to date can only support price negotiations (dynamic pricing). This may be one of the reasons why current electronic markets struggle for ac...

In this paper, we present a model for designing buying agents in electronic marketplaces that adapt by adjusting decisions about which sellers to select for business, based on reputation ratings provided by other buying agents in the marketplace (known as indirect reputation information). The focus of our research is a method for effectively representing and employing this indirect reputation i...