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Mobile data offloading has become a promising approach to alleviate cellular traffic load. To motivate the third-party participants to offload data traffic, there arises a variety of market-based incentive frameworks for analyzing economic benefits. However, existing frameworks are mostly oriented to AP-based offloading through WiFi or femtocells, the economic incentive for opportunistic networks...
Technology innovation promotes the economic growth of an enterprise. Innovation is not only an adaptive learning and cultural evolvement process but a market error trial process, during which there are a large number of random factors available with obvious unconformity and accumulation. Therefore, there are path dependences during the technology innovation. Based on the path dependence theory, this...
Getting involved in standards competition is becoming a new feature of market competition, which has drawn great attention in academic circles. The existing research on the influencing mechanism of standards competition on the consumer market is very limited. This article discusses the impacting path of standards competition on consumers' new product purchase decisions and the moderating effect of...
Groundwater management is a new challenge for most developing countries. A case study of Shanghai groundwater management history is put forward to provide experiences for other countries. The paper classified Shanghai groundwater exploitation history (since 1961) into 5 phases, considering the over exploitation in different aquifers and consequently land subsidence in different times. Measures, carried...
Based on the precipitation monitoring data of Xiangtan from 2004 to 2008 and from 1993 to 1998, the article mainly analyzed the characteristics, regularity and development tendency of acid rain in Xiangtan. And then, some advices are taken according to the status and characteristics of acid rain of Xiangtan.
Effects of technological innovation on performance are significantly important to firm's competitive advantages. This paper aims to find the key points when studying effects of technological innovation on performance, and to build a conceptual model. The results show that R&D and marketing capabilities are critical. In the conceptual model, not only effects of R&D and marketing capabilities,...
This research aims to explore the laws governing the drives and motives of the luxury consumption motivation based on the luxury and conspicuous theories. Firstly, this research analysis and discuss four-dimensionality of conspicuous consumption of luxury goods of Chinese customers. Then, the authors evaluate the four factors of influence include luxury brands, patron status, fashions and experiences,...
The increasing water demand directly results in the dwindling water supply in many cities of China. Water price plays an important role in the manage of urban water supply. The policy of laddered water price can reach the objective of water commodity pricing and establish the effective mechanisms with the core of water-saving, but it will face a practical problem due to for the lack of theoretical...
The paper separates the investors in stock market into informed traders and uninformed traders according to the characteristic of the investor heterogeneity, which denies the classical capital market theories' assumption that investors are homogenous. Firstly, the assumption is made that two kinds of investors have respective forms of behavioral decision models which the irrational expectation and...
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