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JCMC
March 2000          Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors
Computer-Mediated Markets: New Participants and Structures
   Volume 5, Number 3    Edited by Charles Steinfield, Michigan State University
        See also Part 1 of this special issue: Electronic Commerce and the Web

[Digital Divide]
    Can observed differences between whites and African-Americans in computer access and use be explained by differences in income and education? How access impacts use, and when race matters in the calculus of equal access.

[In this issue:]

[Computer-Mediated Markets]     The authors provide an empirical test of the effects of Internet use on buyer lock-in, and find that in some cases the buying firm's dependence on its primary supplier is reduced.

[Art and Antiques Trade]
   The emergence of new intermediary roles and actors is not always based on pure economic argument. Of equal importance are the constraints imposed by the social and cultural embedding of intermediary roles.
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    The Web sites of 102 publicly held firms with predominantly Internet-based businesses were examined for their use of trust-building strategies. Sites more embedded in a network of hyperlink ties were more likely to use TTPS and privacy statements
[Structure of Intermediation]
   Three intermediation services that have received little attention in the literature so far (inventory, reputation, informational efficiency) are examined for their implications for e-commerce.
   [Dynamic Capabilities of Internet Intermediaries]
   Simplistic hypotheses regarding disintermediation in electronic commerce are giving way to more realistic and more complex models. The models need to take into account the dynamic capability characteristics of the industry and its stakeholders.
    
   [USA Today Hot Site] [Magellan Three-Star Site]NetGuide Platinum Site    [Cybermediation in Auto Distribution]
   While most car companies seized the opportunity to establish virtual showrooms on the Web, cybermediaries are successfully exploiting weaknesses of the car companies and their established distribution infrastructures.
   [Interoperability and Electronic Commerce]
   The authors provide a new policy framework for the development of standards for interoperability in electronic commerce, and provide a structure for reviewing interoperability between various players in the markets for electronic commerce.

[Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors]