Research Topics in Witkey Business Model: In Perspectives of Transaction Cost, Principle-Agent and Information Supply Chain

Author

Zheng, Haichao ; Hou, Wenhua ; Wang, Hui

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Eng., Nankai Univ., Tianjin

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

398

Abstract

Witkey Business Model (WBM) has been known by more and more people, but there is less scientific research in this field. To comprehend this new business model, scholars and entrepreneurs need more scientific research about it. This paper present two main questions related with WBM has been brought forward in this paper: the first one is to find the reasons for which the task-posters solve their problems on Witkey business model, and the second one is to find risks in WBM based on transaction cost theory and principle-agent theory. The relationship between information supply chain (ISC) and WBM is discussed briefly in section four.

Keywords

costing; electronic commerce; risk management; supply chain management; Witkey business model; electronic commerce; entrepreneurship; information supply chain; principle-agent theory; risk management; transaction cost theory; Animation; Costs; Electronic commerce; Engineering management; Frequency; Innovation management; Internet; Outsourcing; Supply chains; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2008. ICIII '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3435-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIII.2008.300

Filename

4737800