The use of e-commerce has a lot potential to make the lives older people better. It could give them power, ability manage and control their finances, lower care costs, less reliant on others, so they live own. Using questionnaire survey, this study looks at whether individual characteristics Greek affect adoption e-commerce. Eight variables that be linked adoption: gender, age, marital status, ...

General purpose (open) and application-specific (closed) PKIs are two main categories of PKI that support a variety of cryptographic operations for providing secure environment. SSL/TLS and SET are two distinct security protocols utilising these PKI categories for securing e-commerce transactions. While the former protocol categorised as a general purpose PKI has been playing an important role ...

The scope of this research is to develop and test a model for evaluating B2C e-commerce Web sites. Consequently, this study seeks to investigate the relationship between the Web site interface of B2C e-commerce and virtual customer behavior, concentrating on purchasing attitude and intention. The objective of this article is, therefore, to research which features of a virtual store effectively ...

The proliferation of online auctions has attracted significant research interest in understanding real-life bidding behavior. However, most of the empirical work has focused on business-to-consumer (B2C) auctions. A natural question is whether the findings obtained from B2C auctions are applicable to business-to-business (B2B) auctions which often involve much higher stakes. In this paper, we e...

Electronic commerce has transformed the work processes and the way organizations disseminate information to their consumers and business partners. Evidence of new forms of information tools via the WWW increasingly indicate that B2C e-commerce models require real time data that enable consumers to make more informative decisions. Patients are demanding more of and from care providers, payers an...

The recent growth of business-to-consumer (B2C) Internet auctions challenges researchers to develop empirically-sound explanations of critical factors that allow merchants to earn price premiums in these auctions. The absence of a comprehensive model of Internet auctions leads us to conduct an exploratory study to elucidate and rank critical factors that lead to price premiums in Internet aucti...

Mass access to the Internet coupled with trends in globalisation of products and services have given birth to new e-commerce markets in recent years. There have been several optimistic projections of rapid growth for e-commerce, but the business-to-consumer (B2C) sector has failed to achieve its expected growth potential (CommerceNet, 2000). One of the main reasons for these disappointing resul...

This article provides a parsimonious research model that assists in the study of infomediary roles in B2C ECommerce, their level of integration and sophistication, and their impact on infomediary performance and customers’ satisfaction. After an extensive literature review, discovery, facilitation, and support roles were identified as the main roles that infomediaries perform in the B2C e-comme...

There has been a rapid growth in electronic commerce worldwide. However, the UK government and other governments had noted that electronic commerce uptake among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has been slow. In this paper we examine the skills and knowledge required for successful electronic commerce projects in the UK SME sector based upon detailed case studies in three SME organisations f...