With properties like eBay and Amazon, among many other, an online marketplace harnesses the openness of the web, more efficiently matches supply with demand without too many intermediaries, and leverages network effects to capture economic value during each transaction.
Even with its complex corporate governance and network of intermediaries, Enron was still able to "attract large sums of capital to fund a questionable business model, conceal its true performance through a series of accounting and financing maneuvers, and hype its stock to unsustainable levels".
The real risk is insurance carriers and payers and employers and intermediaries will narrow networks so far that people will not have access to places like City of Hope.
The Company distributes its products and solutions to private investors via a global network of intermediaries, and directly to institutions.
It is impossible, for example, to thoroughly understand the dynamic, the prices, the intermediaries, and the structure of distribution networks of the gas imported by Europe from Russia and other Eurasian nations through Ukraine and other countries, without taking into account the role of organized crime in this lucrative business.
For example, the United States and the United Kingdom have similar product, capital, and labor markets, with networks of skilled intermediaries and strong regulatory systems.
Just by looking at it, you can tell who the advertiser is, and the publisher, but the intermediaries — the ad networks, agencies, and affiliate networks — aren't apparent, leaving you in the dark if you really want to understand how a campaign was executed.
The tool will include information on knowledge creators, intermediaries, donor networks, foundations and other online resources.
Members could contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements, expertise, and financing.
But even those with headline-level acquaintance with Russian current affairs can't fail to identify the film's furious jabs at Vladimir Putin, the Russian Orthodox church and a tangled intermediary network of oppressive authority figures.
