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Qualification requirements of SMEs in Internet-based electronic commerce : findings from Finland
2010
Danno da prodotto difettoso e responsabilità delle piattaforme di E-Commerce: uno sguardo oltreoceano
2022
L’articolo prende in esame due recenti decisioni della Court of Appeal della California circa la responsabilità delle piattaforme di e-commerce per prodotti difettosi alienati da venditori circa la responsabilità delle piattaforme di e-commerce per prodotti difettosi alienati da venditori terzi. Dopo aver ricostruito il case law californiano in materia di danno da prodotto ed il ruolo della tradizionale filiera distributiva nel migliorare la sicurezza dei prodotti, l’Autore passa all’esame delle pronunce della Court of Appeal rese nei casi Bolger v. Amazon.com del 2020 e Loomis v. Amazon.com del 2021. Secondo la Corte di secondo grado, le piattaforme di e-commerce sono destinatarie del regi…
What Prevents Consumers from Making Responsible Online Purchases?
2023
The objective of this qualitative study is to examine and describe what prevents consumers from making responsible online purchases. The data were collected during February and March 2023 with an online survey. The data comprises the respondents' (N=245) free-form written responses, in which they articulated and explained the factors that prevent their responsible online purchases. The findings indicate that external and internal factors can prevent consumers' responsible online purchases. While external factors – online stores – are mainly blamed for promoting irresponsible buying behavior, internal factors –consumers' individual characteristics – are also recognized to have an important r…
La stratégie de la distribution : des interrogations managériales aux contributions académiques.
2004
Le secteur du commerce de détail connaît une remise en cause d'un certain nombre de modèles stratégiques dominants qui ont accompagné les transformations de ce secteur depuis une cinquantaine d'années. Les professionnels du secteur sont ainsi confrontés à la recherche de nouveaux cadres normatifs susceptibles d'orienter leur prise de décision. Cet article analyse les contributions possibles des recherches académiques à trois champs stratégiques majeurs du distributeur : le cadre stratégique du détaillant, l'optimisation du canal de distribution et le positionnement de l'offre du point de vente.
Exploring positive online customer experience formation : a study of food waste shoppers
2022
This qualitative study investigates the formation of positive online customer experiences in the context of online grocery shopping. This study analyzes customers’ written descriptions of the causes of their positive experiences when visiting an online store. Data were collected with an online survey of 581 respondents. The case company is a Finnish online retailer, Fiksuruoka Ltd. Fiksuruoka’s business idea is to sell food waste; its product range consists of surplus groceries that are in danger of being disposed of. The findings show that four main themes contribute positively to the online customer experience. Positive customer experiences were explained by factors related to 1) the shop…
Regulating (and Self-regulating) the Sharing Economy in Europe: An Overview
2018
The article describes the main legal challenges for regulating the sharing (or collaborative) economy in Europe and explains how the existing body of EU law applies to these new business models. In the last part, it makes a few brief comments on the need for future regulation.
Digital Influencers, Food and Tourism—A New Model of Open Innovation for Businesses in the Ho.Re.Ca. Sector
2022
The choice of influencer marketing as an endorser for promoting products and services is becoming a more and more effective communication strategy of open innovation. Their use of social media platforms, such as Instagram, allows them to be reached by millions of followers all over the world. As a response to the economic crisis that affected Italy after the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chiara Ferragni, one of the most endorsed influencers worldwide, started a communication campaign with the aim to promote Italian food and tourist destinations (cities of art, seaside, ski and countryside locations, thermal baths, museums, galleries, hotels, etc.). This study analyses Chiara Ferragni…
From free health care to pricing in subsaharian Africa : rise and fall of the project "health for all"
1997
The idea o f the "health for all", that consists in insure to each the free access to health care and the equality on treating, has been found enough rapidly taken in defect by the catastrophic economic situation of countries of Africa to the South o f the Sahara. Faced with the impossibility to promote a free health policy for all, local governments and international organisations, such the WHO and the UNICEF, have proposed to make pay users for cares that they receive and to decentralize management of public health system so as to create the favorable environment to a market of health. This reform of health system in Subsaharan Africa, called the Bamako Initiative, is going to tempt to so…
"Un revirement de jurisprudence contestable : la constitution du tribunal arbitral interdit la saisine du juge des référés aux fins de mesures provis…
2006
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E-supply Chain for International Technology Transfer
2001
This research (a review of current literature and empirical research) suggests that in order to make the e-supply chain for technology transfer of a Western country company (i.e., technology supplier) more efficient and effective than the conventional technology development and delivery approach, it should be considered as a process whose phases include planning, implementation and evaluation. This paper focuses only on the e-supply chain for technology package development for international technology transfer, and does not deal with all the aspects of IT-supported technology transfer process. peerReviewed