Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"eBay"”.
-
Self-Perceived Leadership Characteristic Among Successful Small eBay Sellers
… leadership characteristics of successful small eBay business owners. Scholarly research has identified several styles of leadership that take place in the physical environment. However, little research had been completed on the leadership skills needed to succeed as a small eBay business owner. …
-
Persönlichkeit und die Bereitschaft, bei Online-Auktionen zu bieten : Überprüfung eines Pfadmodells für das Internet-Auktionshaus eBay
… nutzen die Plattform des Online-Auktionshauses eBay als virtuellen Trödelmarkt, wobei die hohe Produktbandbreite einen schier unendlichen Austausch von Gütern ermöglicht. Das große ökonomische und gesellschaftliche Potential von Internet-Auktionen macht diese zu einem ergiebigen Forschungsgebiet …
-
Essays on reputation
… I focus on the effects of reputation on eBay online market. In chapter 1, I study how actors in a marketplace can introduce mechanisms to overcome adverse selection, and I focus on one mechanism employed by eBay: sellers’ reputation. Using a unique data set that follows sellers on eBay …
-
Essays on Empirical Analysis of Continuous-Time Models of Industrial Organization
… describes and estimates the model of bidding on eBay. Internet auctions (such as eBay) differ from the traditional auction format in that participants 1) typically face a choice over several simultaneous auctions and 2) often have limited information about rival bidders. Since existing economic …
-
Three Essays on Industrial Organization
… chapter I study seller behavior using data from eBay auctions of used tractors. I relax the standard assumption that sellers know the distribution functions of items' valuations and find that uninformed and patient sellers use secret reserve prices to run unsuccessful eBay auctions to learn …
-
Insurgent strategies for creating inimitability within mature digital ecosystems
… Facebook, salesforce.com, Amazon, Firefox, eBay and others. eBay for one realized early-on that forging relationships with developers can support and advance its business model. Not long afterwards, http://developer.ebay.com was created giving developers access to a myriad of information on …
-
Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
At Internet auction sites like eBay, similar goods are often sold in a sequence of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both …
-
Complexity and obfuscation in evolving platform pricing
… of pricing strategies of platforms such as eBay (sellers and buyers) and Uber (riders and drivers) and the challenges they overcame to stay ahead in the market. We study that eBay initially used a complex pricing strategy but simplified it to compete in the market with Amazon and other …
-
Bitcoin : a new way to understand payment systems
… with companies such as Microsoft, Paypal, EBay, Dell, and Expedia now accepting Bitcoin payments. Venture capitalists are avid for investment opportunities in Bitcoin related opportunities, such as online wallets and remittance payment systems among others. Bitcoin has a prominent present …
-
Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions
… using data from sales of baseball tickets on eBay. I find that sellers' outside options, dynamic incentives, and risk preferences affect mechanism choice. Using the estimation results from my model I analyze the welfare effects of a hybrid mechanism (buy-it-now auctions) eBay offers. I find …
-
Electricity and Other Dreams
… inventor creates new ears from parts ordered off Ebay. A boy meets and loses the love of his life, a young singer leaves her city, a father sells his son's truck, and a man sleeps with his sister. Most of these stories are sad.</p>
-
Firewall information and security visualization : improving the usage and adoption of modern network firewalls by novice users
… - e.g., Internet banking, online shopping, eBay, email - emphasizes the need for computer security which is understandable to novice users. Whilst the technology underlying a firewall is effective, most users have no idea how to configure the software to suit their needs. This research …
-
UNVEILING THE SHADOWS: A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL INFLUENCE STRATEGIES FOR ESTABLISHING SOCIAL ORDER IN DARKNET MARKETS
… that of traditional e-commerce platforms such as eBay. How is this possible? Howcan social order emerge in such a context? Existing studies have primarily approached the issue from neo-institutionalist and social network perspectives, examining the emergence of social order through informal …
-
Ghost in the shell : econometric forecast of Singapore's office market and where is architect in financial time
… "cloud participation" has given rise to ebay, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia, what does work, live and play mean in this current environment where indulgence and consumption for its very own sake is very much part of the cultural lifestyle. Where is Architect in this financial time? In …
-
Characterizing performance of residential internet connections using an analysis of measuring broadband America's web browsing test data
… studied in this thesis are: Amazon, CNN, EBay, Facebook, Google, msn, Wikipedia, Yahoo and YouTube.
-
Role of evolving Web Technologies in the discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities in technology-based organisations
… existing online businesses such as Amazon and eBay on the other. However, there is limited research that investigates the role of web technologies for entrepreneurial opportunities discovery (EOD). The findings of a systematic literature review reveal that prior EOD research has mostly …
-
Finding gold in glitter : a framework for assessing the prospects of early stage ventures
… success - an outlier like Google, Amazon, eBay or an YouTube, on which the entire portfolio return depends. The current approaches to evaluating these early stage venture plans are not very reliable. What we need is a new paradigm. To pursue any endeavor and achieve desired success …
-
Structured Information Flow (SIF) Framework for Automating End-to-End Information Flow for Large Organizations
… daily we see examples of organizations like eBay and Amazon that perform their business in a fully automated manner without the use of paper or pen. However, bigger and older organizations that have more complex functions, like government organizations, have not been very successful in …
-
Pentimento: Revealing the integral polaroid in a digital age. Singular, physical, sculptural
… use in film, fiction, its descriptions on eBay, within fine art, as well as my own practical investigations, I will reinstate the singularity of the medium, physical presence, its location in time and space, and address its material durability. This will lead to an articulation of the …
Page 1 of 2