Biographical note: Georg Barthel forscht als Postdoc an der Universität Aalborg zu kollektivem Handeln von migrantischen Beschäftigten. Zuvor war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ) der Universität Duisburg-Essen. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind u.a....

Amazon ist der größte Onlinemarktplatzbetreiber in Deutschland. Zudem bietet es für Onlinehändler Logistikdienstleistungen an und gehört zu den größten Paketdienstleistern. Die Position als Onlinemarktplatzbetreiber bietet Amazon die Möglichkeit, seine Paket- und Logistikdienstleistungen...

Die Digitalisierung der Arbeit birgt ein hohes Konfliktpotenzial zwischen Beschäftigten und Unternehmen. Bei dem Lager- und Logistikzentrum Amazon zeigt sich ein spezifisches Ensemble von Managementstrategien und Produktionsregime, das Georg Barthel als Amazonismus identifiziert. Diese neue...

"Amazon and Walmart, with more than a trillion dollars in annual revenues combined, are the two largest companies in the world. They have not only redefined the retail industry—Walmart in the 1980s/1990s and Amazon since 2000—but have also been the benchmark for best practices in business...

Mail-ordering, particularly on the internet, has continually grown in importance over the last few years. This trend is expected to continue with no apparent end in sight. Liberal return policies have significantly contributed to this development by strengthening trust in both the individual...

Amazon ist eines der wertvollsten Unternehmen der Welt. Was sind die Geheimnisse seines Erfolgs? Wie lassen sich diese Erkenntnisse auf andere Unternehmen im E-Commerce-Sektor übertragen? Die renommierten Einzelhandelsexpertinnen Natalie Berg und Miya Knights geben überzeugende Antworten. ?Das...

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

2016 hat der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) die Preisbindung für rezeptpflichtige Arzneimittel (Rx) aus ausländischen Versandapotheken aufgehoben. Viele sehen hierdurch die Präsenzapotheke bedroht und damit die flächendeckende Versorgung gefährdet. Doch das im Koalitionsvertrag vereinbarte...

I study how online competition, with its algorithmic pricing technologies and the transparency of the Internet, can change the pricing behavior of large retailers and affect aggregate inflation dynamics. In particular, I show that online competition has raised both the frequency of price changes...

Rezension: Nach J. Rossman geben zwei weitere frühere Mitarbeiter von Amazon Einblick in Unternehmenskultur, Geschäftsstrategie und Führungsprinzipien des Internetgiganten. Bryar arbeitete jahrelang als technischer Berater für den Unternehmensgründer Jeff Bezos und trug bezeichnenderweise...

1. Introduction -- 2. The impulse buying -- 3. The cognitive dissonance -- 4. The affect state -- 5. Measuring the constructs of impulse buying, cognitive dissonance and affect state -- 6. On-line consumer behavior and technology acceptance models -- 7. Drivers for on-line impulse purchases of...

The study was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and commissioned, overseen and published by the Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs. This Study analyses the socio-legal status of the Mail-Order Bride industry in...

The study was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and commissioned, overseen and published by the Policy Department for Citizen's Rights and Constitutional Affairs. This Study analyses the socio-legal status of the Mail-Order Bride industry in...

Cross-border trade in parcels has played a critical role in helping people and firms deal with issues stemming from physical distancing and confinement measures implemented during COVID-19. This note discusses that role and the policies that can help ensure parcel trade can continue to be...

Mail-ordering, particularly on the internet, has continually grown in importance over the last few years. This trend is expected to continue with no apparent end in sight. Liberal return policies have significantly contributed to this development by strengthening trust in both the individual...

Organizational legitimacy is a key resource that is necessary for every venture to acquire other crucial resources, which will subsequently stimulate growth. We illustrate this legitimacy-growth relationship by analyzing the case of Europe's first online pharmacy DocMorris. Given that this ICT...

Using aggregate product search data from Amazon.com, we jointly estimate consumer information search and online demand for durable goods. To estimate demand and search primitives, we introduce an optimal sequential search process into a model of choice and treat the observed market-level product...

Mail-order and internet sellers must decide how customers pay shipping charges. Typically, these sellers choose between two pricing policies: either “uniform pricing,” where the firm delivers to any customer at a fixed delivery charge (that may be volume dependent), or “mill pricing,”...

This paper presents new results on the size, frequency, and synchronization of price changes for twelve selected retail goods over the past 35 years. Three basic facts about the data are uncovered: first, nominal prices are typically fixed for more than one year although the time between changes...

Canadians often associate indentured labour with a remote past, and a racially stratified labour market with the legacy of slavery and colonization in other countries. The existence of a Canadian immigration scheme known as the Foreign Domestic Movement (FDM) program challenges this naive...

Diese Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur Analyse und Gestaltung von Distributionsmodellen zur Paketzustellung im Endkundenbereich. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Bereich Business to Consumer (B-to-C), der gleichzeitig viele Parallelen zu der Paketzustellung im Consumer to Consumer Bereich aufweist....