Automated dictionary discovery for the online marketplace

Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace in which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers or as a reseller by purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers. We model this as a decision between whether ...

The growth of the Internet has spawned an increasing number of online information sources (OISs). The effect of OISs on consumer information search processes has been particularly striking in sectors such as auto retailing, where the typical consumer ...

The e-marketplace has emerged as an important electronic shopping environment that, according to a recent Forrester Research report, may evolve into a dominant force in Internet marketing. We investigate an e-marketplace with online stores offering ...