infonet-economy

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief explanation regarding the authors’ current research in the field of the possible uses of smart contracts in cybercrime, focusing in particular on how the technology could provide a substitute for trust both in client-criminal transactions and in transactions taking place within criminal organizations. The authors share the conviction…

Dans le secteur des montres de luxe, cette recherche répond à la question : « pourquoi certaines marques font-elles des séries limitées et des pièces uniques une stratégie de marketing originale ?». Elle se base sur une revue de la littérature relative aux produits de luxe et sur deux études qualitatives exploratoires menées auprès de professionnels de l’horlogerie. Son apport…

Choosing the right professional that has to meet indeterminate requirements is a critical aspect in humanitarian development and implementation projects. This paper proposes a hybrid evaluation methodology for some non-governmental organizations enabling them to select the most competent expert who can properly and adequately develop and implement humanitarian projects. This…

Cet ouvrage réunit les communications présentées en 2016 à Neuchâtel lors de la 11e Journée de recherche en marketing horloger. Il présente également les exposés et tables rondes qui ont eu lieu à la 20e Journée internationale du marketing horloger à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Il fait suite aux autres ouvrages de la même collection qui ont pour but de faire rayonner le savoir-faire des…

Ethics by Design concerns the methods, algorithms and tools needed to endow autonomous agents with the capability to reason about the ethical aspects of their decisions, and the methods, tools and formalisms to guarantee that an agent’s behavior remains within given moral bounds. In this context some questions arise: How and to what extent can agents un-derstand the social reality in…

The objective of this research is to understand user commitment in the context of social networks. We propose a conceptualization of commitment as a cognitive and affective immersion activity that evolves over time. Our research aims are, firstly, to define commitment through social networks and understand its role in creating relationship between users and organizations; secondly,…