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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou…
Tania Regina Brasileiro A. Teixeira, Márcio Lopes Pimenta
The article identifies the essential dimensions in relation to outsourced logistic management, through a study of the outsourcing process of a large Brazilian wholesaler distributor’s logistic activities. The author has developed a management tool able to gui…
Yue Hu, Manzhen Tang
Home appliance industry is one of the most competitive industries in China, but the price war also prolonged. The reasons for E-commerce price war of home appliance industry are various; this article attempts to use the game theory and information economics a…
Kate M. Stam, Glen T. Cameron, Antonie Stam
Advertisers are keen on finding ways to leverage social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook, one of the premier SNS today, to improve their image, the perception of their products and sales revenue. Facebook facilitates social interaction online, and therefo…
Roberto Fava Scare, Julia Cavalheri Tittoto, Janaína Gagliardi Bara, Jonny Mateus Rodrigues
Over the past 15 years in Brazil, crop protection companies have invested in training and capacity programs in order to develop more efficient and professional dealers, as well as developing influence strategies to improve the relationship with them. The pres…
Michael Shannon, Bakhtiar Moazzami
Bai and Perron’s method for detecting multiple, unknown structural breaks was used to estimate natural rates of unemployment for 19 OECD countries from 1955-2011. Natural rates were lowest in the early period, then, rose in the mid-1970s and early-1980s in mo…
Panos Fitsilis, Thomas Chalatsis
The paper studies the adoption of Project Management (PM) practices in Greek public organizations through the study of small-medium Greek Local Governmental Organizations (LGOs). Specifically, it studies how PM practices are applied to small-medium sized LGOs…
Chuanmin Mi, Xiaofei Shan, Jing Ma
Recently, personalized recommender systems have become indispensable in a wide variety of commercial applications due to the vast amount of overloaded information. Network-based recommendation algorithms for user-object link predictions have achieved signific…
Qiong Yao, Meisi Xu, Wenfang Jiang, Yong Zhang
Technological innovation of agricultural science and technology (AST) of enterprises plays an important role in the development of high-tech agriculture. Enhancing technological innovation capability is the key for Agricultural Science and Technology (AST) en…
Lawrence Southwick
The object of this paper is to determine whether there are economies or diseconomies of scale in highway maintenance and whether higher concentration levels/greater market power across the governments involved in highway maintenance results in higher or lower…
Luis Arturo Rivas Tovar, Adela Chávez, Juan Enrique Azuara Munguía, Ana Gabriela Benítez Jurado
This is an article review of state-of-the-art about Mexicans’ migration to the USA, in last 5 years. We analyzed 4 myths: 1). Migration generates negative effects for the receiving country because when migrants arrive. 2). Mexicans’ migration to the USA gener…
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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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