Electronic commerce (E-commerce) innovating applications have posed novel, technical, organizational and commercial challenges. This study uses a hypercube model to investigate these innovative changes and focuses on their impacts on E-commerce stakeholders: providers, E-commerce companies, customers, and complementors. The results indicate that mobile commerce (M-commerce) differs substantiall...

The paper explores the concepts of social commerce, the behavior of consumers in social commerce, business models and revenues models of social commerce. We use the Facebook social network commerce as an example to explore the social commerce concept models, classifications of social commerce, revenue model and limitation of social commerce. The social commerce is still in infant stage, there a...

We present data on privacy practices in e-commerce under the European Union’s formal regulatory regime prevailing in the United Kingdom and compare it with the data from a previous study of U.S. practices that evolved in the absence of government laws or enforcement. The codification by the E.U. law, and the enforcement by the U.K. government, improves neither the disclosure nor the practice of...

We have models of commerce in a Web setting: business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C). Now scientists commonly use Web based services to perform in-silico experiments. Thus we are prompted to ask the question "Are eScientists doing e-Business?". Do the infra-structure and models offered by eCommerce support the activities e-Scientists need to perform? In this position paper we ...

OBJECTIVES To explore the occupational backgrounds of English Non-Executive Directors (NED) on Acute National Health Service (NHS) Trusts. DESIGN Data extrapolated from Trust websites of NED' occupational backgrounds by gender and occupations, and inter-rater reliability test undertaken. SETTING Data were available on all but 24 of the 166 Acute Trusts' from all regions. PARTICIPANTS Trus...

E-commerce that has undergone an increasing trend in recent years has been regarded as the modern method for transfer of information and economic exchange.   This phenomenon brings about massive changes in most of relations between various economic institutions. Such changes have also occurred in tax systems. Hence, the present research aims to investigate effect of E-commerce on tax structure ...

  Steel market and particularly rod bar market play important roles in economy of countries. Economic systems are considered as complex systems which are sophisticated to be modeled mathematically. One way to model these systems is simulation and use of system dynamics. This paper models rod bar supply chain in Iran using system dynamics. Data of this research is gathered from first hand materi...

the implementation of inter-organizational systems like business- to- business e-commerce (b2b e-commerce)  is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. companies need to consider their own strengths and weaknesses before making decisions to explore new b2b e-commerce without...

iran’s small and medium enterprises (smes) have been widely introduced in the market these days. in the emerging trend of electronic data interchange, iran’s political, economical and social issues have been diverted to a more aggressive approach to the world of e-commerce, that despite the shadowing issues of the past, iran already internalized the promising craft of e-commerce through various...