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Szara strefa w Internecie: tendencje i kierunki rozwoju
Gray zone on the Internet: trends and trends

Author(s): Bogdan Mróz
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Migration Studies, Financial Markets, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur

Summary/Abstract: Migration to the virtual space provides opportunities for many firms and creative entrepreneurs but also possibilities to carry out activities by those entities, which seek for easy, quick profits. It is connected with occurrence in the virtual space of unregistered business activity (commonly described as the grey market) whose selected symptoms are presented in the article. The author also discussed in it the new areas and symptoms of occurrence of the grey market in Internet in the form of development of unofficial market for IT products, brand piracy and sale of counterfeit products (including computer software) and achievement of unregistered income through sale of products in Internet auctions.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 13-21
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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