There are many avenues for consumers to transact with one another. Consumers are increasingly trying to find ways to interact and transact with other consumers via the Web. This study utilizes young adults to assess a consumer’s choice to use consumer-to-consumer (C2C) electronic commerce by examining a consumer’s computer self-efficacy, Web experience, and C2C electronic commerce trust. In add...

Fast growing e-commerce (electronic commerce) segment at first influenced big companies business that led to B2B (Business to business) e-commerce structure. This paper presents an application of standard ecommerce model in e-auction (electronic auction) process. In addition, based on the several auctions experiences, the recommendations for the real-time auction organization are emphasized. Th...

In recognizing the power of electronic commerce in continuously provided service context, this paper examines personal and situational factors as well as transactional characteristics influencing customers’ use of electronic commerce in stock trading. Empirical data were collected from an intercept field survey of individual customers of two major Korean stock trading brokers. Our results show ...

This paper tries to explain the temporal evolution of electronic commerce in a developed country. For this purpose, we evaluate the contribution of the size of the potential market represented by the community of Internet users to the development of electronic commerce, as well as of other determinant factors. The validation carried out, for the whole Spanish market and over a period of seven y...

Balancing business strategy and operations between electronic commerce and brick and mortar channels (‘clicks and mortar’) is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. A group of traditional ‘brick and mortar’ firms were examined in order to understand how they balance strategy and operations between electronic commerce and traditional (brick and mortar) business channels. Results of the study ...

nowadays, technological development and the appearance of new informational and communicational devices have been lead to new methods for communication and generating and storing of data. the growth of using of these methods in commercial and daily connection has caused a new version of evidence called electronic evidence. although the nature of electronic and paper evidence are different, the ...

This paper examines the influence of electronic commerce technologies in enabling companies to pursue more collaborative relations with their suppliers. It is shown how electronic commerce is supporting more collaborative relations by describing a number of the key areas of collaboration, where electronic commerce is having a considerable impact. Electronic commerce is radically re-shaping trad...

Markets that are well-integrated spatially are important to the stability and success of the economy because they balance supply and demand and create incentives for innovation. Electronic commerce has the potential to improve market integration by providing visibility into supply/demand conditions in different geographic regions and facilitating trade across geographic distance. We study the e...

The use of electronic commerce in international business transactions has yet to be studied extensively. Compared to nationally-based electronic commerce, very few authors have empirically studied the extent of international electronic commerce. The objective of this paper is to develop a better and fuller understanding of the usage of electronic commerce among the numerous parties involved in ...

this paper describes the development of a fuzzy decision support system (fdss) for the assessment of risk in e-commerce (ec) development. a web-based prototype fdss is suggested to assist ec project managers in identifying potential ec risk factors and the corresponding project risks. a risk analysis model for ec development using a fuzzy set approach is proposed and incorporated into the fdss....