Download or read book Cooperation Without Enforcement written by Yannis Bakos and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online reputation mechanisms are emerging as a promising alternative to more established mechanisms for promoting trust and cooperative behavior, such as legally enforceable contracts. As information technology dramatically reduces the cost of accumulating, processing and disseminating consumer feedback, it is plausible to ask whether such mechanisms can provide an economically more efficient solution to a wide range of moral hazard settings where societies currently rely on the threat of litigation in order to induce cooperation. In this paper we compare online reputation to legal enforcement as institutional mechanisms in terms of their ability to induce cooperative behavior. Furthermore, we explore the impact of information technology on their relative economic efficiency. We find that although both mechanisms result in losses relative to the maximum possible social surplus, under certain conditions online reputation outperforms litigation in terms of maximizing the total surplus, and thus the resulting social welfare. Keywords: Online Reputation Mechanisms, Quality Assurance, Litigation, Internet, Game Theory, E-commerce, Information Technology.

Download or read book The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing written by Munindar P. Singh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing analyzes a broad array of technologies and concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by recognized experts address the key challenges facing Internet users, designers, integrators, and policymakers. In addition to discussing major applications, it also

Download or read book Trust and Reputation for Service Oriented Environments written by Elizabeth Chang and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trustworthiness technologies and systems for service-oriented environments are re-shaping the world of e-business. By building trust relationships and establishing trustworthiness and reputation ratings, service providers and organizations will improve customer service, business value and consumer confidence, and provide quality assessment and assurance for the customer in the networked economy. Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments is a complete tutorial on how to provide business intelligence for sellers, service providers, and manufacturers. In an accessible style, the authors show how the capture of consumer requirements and end-user opinions gives modern businesses the competitive advantage. Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments: Clarifies trust and security concepts, and defines trust, trust relationships, trustworthiness, reputation, reputation relationships, and trust and reputation models. Details trust and reputation ontologies and databases. Explores the dynamic nature of trust and reputation and how to manage them efficiently. Provides methodologies for trustworthiness measurement, reputation assessment and trustworthiness prediction. Evaluates current trust and reputation systems as employed by companies such as Yahoo, eBay, BizRate, Epinion and Amazon, etc. Gives ample illustrations and real world examples to help validate trust and reputation concepts and methodologies. Offers an accompanying website with lecture notes and PowerPoint slides. This text will give senior undergraduate and masters level students of IT, IS, computer science, computer engineering and business disciplines a full understanding of the concepts and issues involved in trust and reputation. Business providers, consumer watch-dogs and government organizations will find it an invaluable reference to establishing and maintaining trust in open, distributed, anonymous service-oriented network environments.

Download or read book Internet and Network Economics written by Stefano Leonardi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at WINE 2009:the 5th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics held December 14–18, 2009, in Rome,attheDepartmentofComputerandSystemSciences,SapienzaUniversity of Rome. Over the past decade there has been growing interaction between researchers in theoretical computer science, networking and security, economics, mathem- ics, sociology, and management sciences devoted to the analysis of problems arising in the Internet and the worldwide web. The Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE) is an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas and results arising in these varied ?elds. There were 142 submissions to the workshop including regular and short - pers.Allsubmissionswererigorouslypeer reviewedandevaluatedonthebasisof the quality of their contribution, originality,soundness, and signi?cance. Almost all submissions were reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. The committee decided to accept 34 regular papers and 29 short papers. The Best Student Paper award sponsored by Google Inc. was given to Saeed Alaei and AzarakhshMalekianfor the paper “An Analysisof Troubled Assets Reverse Auction.” The program also included three invited talks by S. Muthukrishnan (Google Inc.and RutgersUniversity),H. PeytonYoung (OxfordandJohns Hopkins U- versity)andEvaTardos(CornellUnversity).Threetutorialswerealsoo?eredon the days before the workshop, from Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Research) on C- putational Advertising, Nikhil Devanur and Kamal Jain (Microsoft Research) on Computational Issues in Market Equilibria, and Tim Roughgarden(Stanford University) on Bayesian and Worst-Case Revenue Maximization.

Download or read book Computer Mediated Relationships and Trust Managerial and Organizational Effects written by Brennan, Linda L. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines trust in a third dimension. Considers how building trust is different for managers developing "virtual" relationships. Examines the way remote workers are managed; electronic commerce is used to sell products and services to unseen consumers; and how IT is relied on to interface with organizations, virtual or otherwise.

Download or read book Transforming Enterprise written by William H. Dutton and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people are using information technology to reshape the way the world communicates, works, and learns--across organizational boundaries and through all sectors of society.

Download or read book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2005 OTM 2005 Workshops written by Zahir Tari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sharing Economy for Tackling Cybercrime written by Ethem Ilbiz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains Europol’s online sharing platforms efforts in three major cybercrime areas: ransomware, money laundering with cryptocurrencies, and online child sexual exploitation that Europol has already pushed private and public actors to cooperate. Since the global financial crisis, online sharing economy platforms have made a significant impact on use of under-utilized resources. People who have a car (Uber) or a spare room (Airbnb) began to share their under-used assets with others for extra income. The success achieved by these online platforms that enable efficient use of limited resources raised a new discussion on whether a similar governance model can be implemented by public administrations where public resources are insufficient. Cybercrime is one of these fields where most law enforcement agencies have not got enough resources to tackle these crimes. They need the human and technical resources of the private sector for a safer society. This book, for the first time, seeks the answers to this question. It examines the feasibility of online sharing economy platforms to enhance public-private partnerships to tackle cybercrime. The European Union Policing Agency, Europol, is the first police organization to adopt a similar model to interact with policing agencies and private industry. Drawing on extensive research, the book offers crucial insights for policymakers, researchers, and the public interested in new trends in sharing economy, innovative governance models, public-private partnerships, and cybercrime investigations.

Download or read book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006 OTM 2006 Workshops written by Zahir Tari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set LNCS 4277/4278 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 14 international workshops held as part of OTM 2006 in Montpellier, France in October/November 2006. The 191 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 493 submissions to the workshops. The first volume begins with 26 additional revised short or poster papers of the OTM 2006 main conferences.

Download or read book Crowdfunding with Enhanced Reputation Monitoring Mechanism Fame written by Omid Torabi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowdfunding is increasingly becoming a method of mobilizing project finance ventures, particularly in a sharing economy. Moreover, the element of risk sharing which is found in equity crowdfunding makes up the essence of Islamic finance. However, as with any type of risk-sharing contract, Islamic crowdfunding faces the problem of lack of trust and information asymmetry. The author employs a game theory approach to Islamic crowdfunding as a means to tackle the issue of information asymmetry through a "reputation mechanism" which is touted as one of the latest means of solving information asymmetry in web-based social networks. The primary objective of the reputation mechanism is to enable more efficient transactions in communities where cooperation is compromised by post-contractual opportunism or information asymmetry. The game theory approach in this study involves two different games: "without Fame" and "with Fame", and it is proposed that a "with Fame" crowdfunding game produces better results. The reputational mechanism in this research was also designed specifically to eliminate any potential moral hazards and minimize information asymmetry. In this study, "Fame" refers to the credibility of every individual within the crowdfunding system. Fame is a form of systematic, measurable and computable (implicit and explicit) reputation, which allows other members of the crowdfunding social network to better learn about the individual and their credibility.

Download or read book Handbook of Computational Social Choice written by Felix Brandt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of computational aspects of collective decisions for graduate students, researchers, and professionals in computer science and economics.

Download or read book E Commerce and Mobile Commerce Technologies written by Kristian Bass and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides you with an in-depth introduction to the field of e-commerce. We focus on concepts that will help you understand and take advantage of the evolving world of opportunity offered by e-commerce, which is dramatically altering the way business is conducted and driving major shifts in the global economy. Chapter 1 and 2 discuss about the basic concepts of e-commerce and e-business strategy. Chapter 3 describes different types of e-commerce technology. This chapter also tells us about the emerging e-commerce technology innovations. Chapter 4 depicts various types of e-business models and markets. Chapter 5 discuss about the mobile electronic commerce. Chapter 6 tells about the mobile commerce, mobile enterprise solutions and ubiquitous computing. Chapter 7 tells about the security parameters used in e-commerce and fraud issues and why protection in e-commerce is required. Chapter 8 depicts payment system used in electronic commerce like smart cards, micropayments, e-checking, mobile payments etc. Chapter 9 ensures about the E-Commerce Regulatory, Ethical, and Social Environments. Electronic commerce and m-commerce is a business model in which transactions take place over electronic networks, mostly the Internet. It includes the process of electronically buying and selling goods, services, and information. Certain EC and m-commerce applications, such as buying and selling stocks and airline tickets online, are reaching maturity, some even exceeding non-Internet trade volumes. However, EC and m-commerce is not just about buying and selling; it also is about electronically communicating, collaborating, and discovering information. It is about e-learning, customer service, e-government, social networks, and much more. EC and m-commerce is having an impact on a significant portion of the world, affecting businesses, professions, trade, and of course, people.

Download or read book Metaphysical Problems Political Solutions written by Asaf Z. Sokolowski and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to read the political thought of classic thinkers of the liberal tradition in the context of their metaphysical and theological writings. Sokolowski demonstrates that the political measures offered by political theorists to remedy the state of unrest and instability are intrinsically connected to their metaphysical conception of order, the self, and the interaction between the two.

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Download or read book The Rise of the Sharing Economy written by Pia A. Albinsson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate source for anyone who wants a comprehensive view of how the sharing economy began and how it may fundamentally change capitalism across the globe. The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities of Collaborative Consumption examines the business phenomenon of the sharing economy, giving readers a thorough analysis of this up-and-coming sector. The book presents a detailed historical perspective of sharing and cooperatives, followed by a discussion of societal factors—predominantly technology—that have facilitated the fast growth of collaborative consumption businesses. Additional chapters offer progressive perspectives on how companies can further commercialize sharing. Written for undergraduate and graduate students studying the collaborative market and for those with entrepreneurial aspirations, this book provides important insight about technology facilities sharing, peer-to-peer lending, grassroots social entrepreneurial efforts, the economics of the sharing economy, legal and public policy issues, and more.

Download or read book Transdisciplinary Marketing Concepts and Emergent Methods for Virtual Environments written by El-Gohary, Hatem and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides a broad and comprehensive international coverage of subjects, issues, and current trends relating to all areas of online marketing"--Provided by publisher.

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