and purpose of the system. The e-commerce system chosen is the Overstock.com. Overstock.com is an online retailer offering a broad variety of high-quality‚ branded name goods at discount prices‚ including bedding‚ home decor‚ appliances‚ watches‚ jewellery‚ electronics‚ sporting goods‚ clothing and shoes. At the beginning‚ Overstock.com sold surplus and returned merchandise on an online E-commerce marketplace and liquidating the inventories of the failed dot-com companies at below-wholesale prices
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Bachelor thesis 10 credits Autumn semester 2005 E-Commerce Strategy - Being Physical or Virtual? Author: Hans Olsberg Robert Perrakoski Supervisor: Reiner Beck (Assistant Professor) ii Acknowledgements This study is the result of our bachelor thesis within business administration at Stockholm University. It has been a very interesting field of study and we think that we have found a somewhat interesting and unique approach within e-commerce. We want to give our thanks to our fellow
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“PRIVACY AND SPAMMING ETHICAL ISSUE IN E-MARKETING” ABSTRACT It is contended that we are all living in a transitional economy and given the implications of globalization and information technologies for business and commerce‚ no economic system displays stability. The Internet poses fundamental challenges to the issues central to society‚ namely free speech‚ privacy and national sovereignty. With the advent of e-marketing‚ it brings with it a host of ethical issues surrounding customer privacy
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PAPER TITLE: EMERGENCE OF E-RETAIL INTRODUCTION: The importance of the Internet as a marketplace has substantially grown over the past decade‚ even though expectations have been dramatically tempered since early 2000. A distinctive feature of doing business electronically is that transactions no longer require the physical coordination of buyers and sellers: market participants find each other at their screens. There are many aspects of market interaction which are affected by this online
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e-Government: The Singapore Arun Mahizhnan & Narayanan Andiappan Arun Mahizhnan is Deputy Director‚ Institute of Policy Studies‚ Singapore and Narayanan Andiappan is Assistant Manger‚ Infocomm Development Authority‚ Singapore Government. This paper draws heavily from resource materials provided by IDA. The views expressed are in the authors’ personal capacity. ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The term "e-Government" is used in this paper
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Why is Elemica described as an example of an industry consortia net marketplace? How does it differ from other types of net marketplaces like ChemConnect? Industry consortia are at an advantage when compared to independent exchanges because‚ unlike the venture-capital-backed exchanges‚ they have deep-pocket financial backing from the very start and guaranteed liquidity based on a steady flow of large firm orders. Elemica is described as a consortia net marketplace because industry consortia are
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New Seamless Mobility Services Public Bicycles 4 Poliicy otes Policy notes ly NICHES is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme for R&D‚ Priority 6.2 Sustainable Surface Transport What is it about? Characteristics Public Bicycles: • are innovative schemes of rental or free bicycles in urban areas; • can be used for daily mobility as one-way-use is possible and they can be seen as part of the public transport system;
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Beyond the Convention‚ another View of Moral Judgment and Sweatshop A negative convention has accompanied with sweatshops since day one the first sweatshop exists. People believed that sweatshops were unethical and confirmed their convention by the definition of sweatshop presented by ethics teachers and researchers Denis Arnold and Laura Hartman: …“sweatshop” as a any workplace in which workers are typically subject to two or more of the following conditions: systematic forced overtime; systematic
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Entrepreneurial efforts are like biological experiments in nature: Many variations are tried‚ but only a small percentage of those go on to thrive. Determinants of Entrepreneurial Success: 1. Creativity One can take existing ideas and make small improvements upon them. By accumulating your ideas‚ you will be able to distil the great ones from the rest and be ready to run with the best. 2. Risk Tolerance Rewards rarely come without risk. Your ability to take advantage of an opportunity will
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In “The Struggle to be an All American Girl” by Elizabeth Wong‚ Elizabeth Wong wanted to assimilate and embrace American culture. However‚ her mother forced her to learn about the Chinese language. She had to go to Chinese school which‚ for her‚ was such a dreaded place that she would kick and scream that she didn’t want to go. She hated almost everything about the school. The auditorium had a stench of old Chinese medicine that was putrescent compared to the sweet smell of her American teacher’s
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