I'm a CS major taking a economy course just for the hell of it since it had "econ of e-commerce" as the title. I'm taking this class C/NC so I could care less what happens. For my research paper, I'm suppose to write a 10 page paper on a company that operates in the electronic marketplace. I figured I could use cc.net(give a plug ), but I need some help making sure I can answer all the questions. I know there's great potential to make this a very entertaining paper. I need to cover these 5 issues: 1.Characteristics of the good or service that the company sells I'm guessing this would be the latest breaking rocket news? Don't really know how to elaborate on this more. 2.Factors that determine demand(importance of advertising, nature of substitutes, product information, effects of price, quality, consumer income) Substitutes would be the Houston Chronicle, ESPN, CBS. It's free that's why people come back. If it was subscription, less people would come. 3.Factors that affect supply(technology, cost structure, R&D spending,etc.) Cost structure meaning Clutch pays everything. What the hell is R&D? 4.Market Structure(nature of competition, pricing strategy of rivals, product differentiation strategies, barrier to entry, etc.) Competition...is there any really? Barrier meaning NBA.com as the "clutch city" name issue. 5.Business model(profitability, revenue model, long term sustainability, etc.) Not sure if clutch makes much off the ads, but no revenue is given and long term sustainability will depend on clutch's finances. I'm probably totally off being I have no knowledge of econ, but i'm sure some of you econ majors here can bring me up to speed. I need some help putting together a decent paper...lolz
I'm no economics major, but since cc.net isn't a for-profit organization, wouldn't that mean its not really a so-called 'company', as implied if your assignment? Your paper definately would be an interesting read, but I would imagine it would be a tough to one write considering CC.net is not, as far as I know, a for-profit company. Btw, "R & D" is Research and Development. Azim da Dream
When you say C/NC, do you mean "credit/no credit" or is that like a Pass/Fail class? If you have the option of taking it for no credit, then I don't know why you would want to do the research paper unless you are incredibly bored because I sure as hell wouldn't do a paper if I was auditing a class. BTW - R&D means research and development. EDIT - lol...Azim already beat me to it about R&D.
