Nowadays, consumer trust is identified as one of the most important factors in electronic commerce (e-commerce) growth. This has led much research to investigate the role of trust in e-commerce and determine the factors which influence trust in this area. This paper explores factors which are engaged in building initial consumer trust in online shopping when a consumer wants to buy from a websi...

Mobile electronic commerce (m-commerce) is an emerging manifestation of internet electronic commerce that bridges the domains of Internet, mobile computing and wireless telecommunications in order to provide an array of sophisticated services (m-services) to mobile users. To date, much of the research in the area has concentrated on the problem of service discovery. However, once a service has ...

4. International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange: The major project in this area is the “International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange” initiative which focuses on the position and role that EDI and related electronic commerce technologies play in streamlining the international trade transaction process. It will also identify t...

Electronic commerce or business is more than just another way to sustain or enhance existing business practices. Rather, e-commerce is a paradigm shift. It is a `̀ disruptive’’ innovation that is radically changing the traditional way of doing business. The industry is moving so fast because it operates under totally different principles and work rules in the digital economy. A general rule in e...

Although electronic commerce (e-commerce) can be a source of competitive advantage, will e-commerce businesses in countries like China flourish when governments still take a “wait-and-see attitude” as to prompting, protecting, and regulating e-commerce? The paper employs transaction cost economics in analyzing the role of government in regulating electronic contracting. Due to the transaction c...

1 What will the future electronic commerce infrastructure look like? Will the intermediaries have a dominant role, or firms will link directly to their partners, or these two types of infrastructure will co-exist? This paper develops a formal gametheoretic model, adopting a two-sided networks framework, and characterizes the ecommerce infrastructure equilibrium under a variety of conditions. It...

The paper proposes a new perspective on value creation in the information age. At first there will be a brief analysis of the current developments in the field of Electronic Markets and Electronic Commerce. Then the fundamental shifts in value creation will be illustrated using the financial industry sector. At the end a new framework for Business Media will be introduced.

Recently, banks and enterprises are gradually involved in B2B electronic money C Plan abbreviated as electronic money. However, few articles have related e-commerce to the financial area. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between financial characteristics and implementing electronic money by e-commerce, and whether implementing electronic money will affect the fi...

This paper addresses the functional structure of agricultural electronic marketplaces, together with associated pricing mechanisms. The analysis of transaction costs suggests that electronic commerce with intermediaries provides more efficient trading environments than electronic marketplace without intermediaries. This indicates that existing intermediary institutions will remain important for...

The laws governing commerce were established when buyer and seller met face to face. In Electronic commerce, goods and services are exchanged across a communications network, raising difficult new problems with respect to taxation, privacy, fraud protection, and restricted sales (such as pornography to minors, or weapons to criminals). Limitations of today’s electronic commerce infrastructure f...