... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Electronic commerce Auctions Information exchange United States of America The Internet has created an enormous electronic commerce (e‐commerce) market in which most transactions occur between people who have never met (Ba and Pavlou, 2002 , Liu...

.... At the close of hearings on the information services debate in the last Congress, EFF was asked to investigate the prospects of ISDN as an Open Platform. To date, we have reached the following conclusions: Communication technologies Computer communications software Public policy United States...

... to the large‐ scale adoption of ACTs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Consumers Decision making United States of America Information technology has fundamentally altered the day‐to‐day lives of the world's consumers. Today, it is hard for many people to remember how common...

... United States of America South Korea Scholars and media reports have noted the importance of the Internet as a type of promotional media (Burns and Lutz, 2006 ; Mangunkusumo et al., 2007 ; Data Monitor, 2007). The unique features of the Internet that make it a more effective promotional...

... and www.workingforchange.com (4,496 articles and 1,985 articles, respectively). We also used a wordlist of email, chat and text message slang, including such terms as “lol,” meaning “laugh out loud.” Politics Databases Online operations United States of America The development of the interactive “Web 2.0...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Electronic commerce Buying behaviour Internet shopping Shops United States of America The Internet has emerged as the most important technological innovation in communications in recent times. Since its introduction in 1983, it has grown...