Increasingly, web surveys are being used to supplement telephone survey data and some predict internet methods will one day replace telephone interviews as the primary method for surveying general populations. Despite these trends, few studies have systematically compared response differences between the two methods. This article describes a study in which both telephone and web surveys were us...

When a firm finances new project by issuing debt, it has an incentive to invest in excessively high-risk projects because shareholders enjoy all the benefits case is successful but have limited liability when fails. Anticipating such behavior, creditors may require higher interest rate or even refuse provide capital. This debt–equity conflict alleviated fact that most investment decisions are m...

Reputation stems from overall assessments of an e-business’ standing, according to various stakeholders, and it affects key customer outcomes. Despite burgeoning literature on the correlates of the customer-based reputation of e-commerce companies (ECCR), scarce research examines how reputation affects monetary outcomes. To extend existing literature on ECCR outcomes, this study focuses on cust...

P2P systems, which are composed of unknown agents, have many problems in data sharing and creating. The main problem is concerned with the absence of the proper incentive mechanism for cooperating and feeding the systems. If the participants of P2P systems are not supported by proper incentives for data sharing and creating, the systems will starve from resources through extinction of sharers a...

Reputation systems aim to reduce the risk of loss due to untrustworthy participants. This loss is aggravated by dishonest advisors trying to pollute the e-market environment for their selfinterest. A major task of a reputation system is to promote and encourage advisors who repeatedly respond with fair advice and to apply an opinion filtering or honesty checking mechanism to detect and resist d...