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Clearly, reality is a bit more complex than that as an EMP also achieves a promotional role, and as sellers have the opportunity to simultaneously register with and EMP an an OIP (for instance, a supplier may go to an OIP because this gives him a larger promotion scope, and simultaneously adhere to an EMP in order to increase his sales). The latter phenomenon is usually referred to as “ multihoming” . Considering the complexities resulting from multihoming (which can also exist on the buyers’ side) goes beyond the scope of the present analysis.
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Here are a few examples of tourism oriented OIPs: calagtour.org, egypthotelsdb.com, ruralindex.net, ruraltrip.com.
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Some examples of tourism oriented EMPs are: booking.com, nouvelles-frontieres.com, travelonline.com, govoyages.com.
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As Varian et Lyman (2002) document it, 550 billion new documents and more than 7,5 million Web pages are created every day.
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We restrict the attention to parameter configurations such that \( 2-d-2c-d\left( m-\gamma \right) >0\).
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However, as we discussed above, a supplier might not want to be joined if the competition effect dominates the cooperation effect (that is, it is possible to have \(\pi ^{AN\ }>\pi ^{AA}>\pi ^{NA}\)).
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A technical appendix containing the detailed computations can be obtained from the authors upon request.
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It can be shown that \(f(n)\) first increases with n, then reaches a maximum and then starts to decrease with n; the reason for the decrease is to be found in the competition effect which makes \(\pi ^{in}(n)\) decrease with n for \(n>N/2\).
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In our model, the indirect network effects on the buyers’ side are implicitly taken into account through the demand expansion resulting from increased suppliers’ participation.
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Belleflamme, P., Neysen, N. (2009). Coopetition in Infomediation: General Analysis and Application to e-Tourism. In: Matias, Á., Nijkamp, P., Sarmento, M. (eds) Advances in Tourism Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2124-6_14
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