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The paper describes ways to support outsourcing arrangements using collaborative technologies. It identifies outsourcing falling into the general class of socio-technical systems. It then suggests any supporting systems must emphasize both the social arrangements as well as any functionality needed to carry out the outsourcing goal. At the same time they should provide the dynamic capability to change...
The exchange of inter-enterprise and intra-enterprise logistics services in the transport logistics sector has become more important. Nevertheless, only a few approaches are able to take into consideration the synergy effects between the customer orders in the case of the outsourcing process and the preferences of customers. In this article, an approach is introduced which offers a solution based...
We discuss an agency model for an e-market place. When a marketplace goes from brick-and-mortar to virtual, incentive issues according to asymmetric information of e-mall providers become significant because contracting for an e-mall service can be "outcome-based." We discuss the Internet firm's incentives associated with the cost of operating an e-mall and different types of contracting...
Prediction markets are a promising approach for predicting uncertain future events and developments. These markets will work well if they are efficient and in efficient markets, one does not expect arbitrage opportunities to be persistent. This paper therefore studies whether pure arbitrage opportunities existed in a sports prediction market. Moreover, market liquidity can become an issue in prediction...
While grid market schedulers have recently received a lot of attention and have been accepted not only in economic but also in purely computer science areas as well, technical grid schedulers are being modified to support advance reservation of resources, too. This prompts questions on how to model grid markets and how to handle grid resource reservation in a reasonable economic fashion. This paper...
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