The rapid growth of the electronic commerce (EC) sector saw the traditional business models of many large organizations being challenged by internet technology-based dot.com start-ups. One reason that can be identified for this is the inability of the information technology (IT) units of these large organizations to respond in a timely manner to the technological innovation and entrepreneurial ...

The fast-paced development of e-commerce caused many people in business to overlook key aspects of the relevant design principles for ecommerce systems. E-commerce applications that are currently being implemented and used are not necessarily the best and the most efficient that people can design and build. The result is an opportunity for e-commerce design science researchers to make significa...

the internet has transformed the manner of conducting commercial transactions and has created regulatory gaps. these regulatory gaps may impact the effective development of electronic commerce. attempts are being made to regulate electronic contracts both at the national and international level. the present research analyses these attempts, in particular the electronic transaction legislation o...

The business achievement among consumers via e-commerce is getting more and more importance at the present time. In this paper, we propose to make use of fuzzy logic with the aim to improve the search and cataloguing of goods and services in Consumer-to-Consumer electronic commerce (E-commerce) portals (e.g. ebay). These portals are the media through most of the electronic transactions among co...

Electronic commerce technologies are changing the way that work tasks are conducted and thus has significant implications for the way organisations manage their human resource functions. Although the impact of IT on work and employment has been the subject of research, little attention has been paid to electronic commerce and its effect on work organisation and HR management. This paper examine...

This paper presents the issues related to the implementation of electronic commerce of services. To illustrate the main features of electronic commerce of services, we have selected legal and administrative services. We describe in the paper the actors who take part in these services, the system architecture and the workflow that defines the interactions and interchange of information among act...

The purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of rural cooperatives managers in Khouzestan province toward electronic commerce, Iran. The research method was correlative descriptive. The population of this study included rural cooperatives managers in Khuzestan province. The total number of members was 101 people. Due to the limited population, census method was used. Questionnaire relia...

Electronic commerce refers to business activities involving consumers, manufacturers , service providers, and intermediaries using computer networks such as Internet [38, 39]. The goals of electronic commerce are to reduce product and service costs and improve customer response time and quality. Hence implementing initiatives in electronic commerce has emerged as significant business strategy i...

What dimensions can be identified in the trust formation processes in Business-to-Consumer (B-to-C) electronic commerce (e-commerce)? How do these differ in importance between academia and practitioners? The purpose of this research is to build a model of multidimensional trust formation for online exchanges in B-to-C electronic commerce. Further, to study the relative importance of the dimensi...