In light of the fact that information communication technologies (ICTs) in general and the Internet/ WWW technology in particular are likely to soon accelerate penetration into the maritime market, bringing together innovative services, this article aims to identify a set of appealing Web-based services for ship travelers. To that end, the article uses a research methodology that includes three...

We analyze quality-contingent prices as a mechanism for mitigating the effects of quality uncertainty in e-commerce and IT goods services. A contingency pricing contract specifies a sequence of possible quality levels and corresponding prices. When the public performance probabilities differ from the firm’s private (and true) probabilities, contingency pricing can expand market size and the lik...

the primary focus of the present study is to review organization analysis models from the standpoint of marketing and to propose an appropriate model for information centers and entities. a detailed literature review is made concerning marketing concepts, principles and services with respect to information organizations. the second stage deals with review and study of information entities, thei...

This review presents a comparison of the potential of offering agricultural market information services that incorporate information and communications technology (ICT) in Ghana and Malawi. A comprehensive analysis was done involving data on economic indicators related to telecommunications services provided by the statistics division of the United Nations, and the current initiatives on agricu...

due to uncertain nature of wind and photovoltaic power units, the participation of this units in electricity markets is subjected to significant deviation penalties. this issue leads to despondency or even admission of these units in the competitive environment. with regard to this fact that the low deviations are available when predictions are performed in a short-term horizon and also distrib...

introduction: the reference section is one of the most important parts in every library. moreover, reference services represent all the attempts performed in a library. since libraries primarily aim to satisfy users' information needs, knowing that the effects of information technologies (it) on their services seems essential. therefore, this study manly tried to assess the effects of it on ref...

Background and Objectives: Induced demand in healthcare is referred to as provision of unnecessary services or the patient by health services providers, while the patient is not aware of their unnecessity. Apart from being unethical, this practice can potentially disturb the supply and demand balance in the health market, pose financial load on the patient, thread the patient’s health by imposi...

This paper studies a decentralized supply chain in which a manufacturer sells a common generic product through two traditional and online retailers under free riding market. We assume that the traditional retailer provides the value added services but the online retailer does not. Factors such as retail prices, local advertising of the retailers, global advertising of the manufacturer and servi...