ABSTRACT The Internet has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. Sellers now attract customers with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms that can reveal or conceal market information. We define market transparency as the availability and accessibility of information about products and prices. Firms can influence market transparenc...

What are the possibilities of promoting transparency in the Federal Brazilian Government Portals? The objective of this research is to discover what possibilities exist to promote transparency in the Federal Brazilian Government Portals: ComprasNet (E-procurement Portal) and Transparency Portal. The methodology used was: 1) a literature review about egovernment, transparency and the relationshi...

The Internet has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. Sellers now attract customers with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms that can reveal or conceal market information. We define market transparency as a design dimension for Internetbased selling that involves firm choices about the level of availability and accessibility of...

Trust, along with transparency, is an important indicator of a satisfactory relationship between a government and the public. Considering transparency as the key to trust in government, the purpose of this paper is to postulate a link between transparency and trust taking into account satisfaction as a psychological factor. This paper tries to find the answer of these questions: “Is there...

Article: Supply chain management is a common strategy employed by businesses to improve organizational processes by optimizing the transfer of goods, information, and services between buyers and suppliers in the value chain [6]. Organizational value chains routinely extend business processes and information flows beyond corporate boundaries [7, 12]. A central tenet of this article lies in creat...

Add an opening stage of signal acquisition to a canonical portfolio choice model and let investors have rational expectations about the ensuing Walrasian equilibrium. The expected marginal utility of a signal (its action value) falls in the number of signals and turns strictly negative at a finite number because signals diminish the asset’s excess return. There is a natural transparency limit a...

The focus of this thesis is on transparency of physiotherapy care. As described in Chapter 1, the need for transparency and accountability in physiotherapy, as in other professions, has been growing in recent decades. This need has been fuelled by changes in the health care system. Under the current system, health care providers themselves are responsible for insight into their quality manageme...

Firms today use information about customers to improve service and design personalized offerings. To do this successfully, however, firms must collect consumer information. This study enhances awareness about a central paradox for firms investing in personalization; namely, that consumers who value information transparency are also less likely to participate in personalization. We examine the r...

We report a study of naming and lexical decision with 132 adult Greek speakers responding to 150 words and matched pseudowords with decorrelated frequency, length, neighborhood, syllable and bigram frequency, and transparency. This approach allowed us to individuate and accurately estimate the effects of each variable, and to assess their linearity and additivity. Significant effects of frequen...