Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) has become a popular topic for business and academic research since the early 1990's. Different researchers focus on different areas: applications, services, marketing, strategy, the Internet, extranets and technologies in ECommerce, to name but a few. Yet despite this focus on E-Commerce, there is still confusion about just what it is. The aim of this paper is ...

The rapid emergence of e-commerce is radically transforming the business landscape. Startup firms are capturing new opportunities in the electronic market place through innovative business models. Established firms are racing to transform and adapt their old business models to the new environment. A business model depicts the way in which a company enables transactions that create value for all...

The present state of world economy urges managers to look for new methods which can help to start the economic growth. To achieve this goal, managers use standard as well as new procedures and tools. Development of information society and so-called new economy has created a whole new business environment that is more extensive and rapidly changing. Become a standard the use of modern informatio...

With the growing popularity of mobile commerce (m-commerce), it becomes vital for both researchers and practitioners to understand m-commerce usage behavior. In this study, we investigate browsing behavior patterns based on the analysis of clickstream data that is recorded in server-side log files. We compare consumers' browsing behavior in the m-commerce channel against the traditional ecommer...

Much current e-commerce subscribes to very simple interaction models. Many of the potentialities of e-commerce are identical to those that have been under study for some time in the field of automated workflow management systems. In this ( ) paper, we describe a new workflow interoperability model, the monitored–nested model MNM , and show that it can support optimized, extended e-commerce tran...

The expansion of the Internet and its use in business and commerce has created a number of new business opportunities and a need for their supporting models. One of these opportunities may be classified as information commerce (i-commerce), a special case of e-commerce focused on the purchase and sale of information as a commodity. I-commerce may also be viewed as a special case of trading of i...

The study reported in this paper was undertaken in an attempt to identify and understand the impacts of electronic commerce in the car retail industry in Western Australia. Much of the existing literature in electronic commerce puts forward theoretical models and speculative argumentation in an attempt to describe and understand the electronic commerce phenomenon. In contradistinction to this t...