Over recent years, the innovative decentralized payment system Bitcoin has received much attention in practice and academia. Despite a growth of transaction volume and an increasing attention in the area of e-commerce, there is little academic research examining the factors influencing adoption. To fill this research gap, this paper documents an exploratory study of the key determinants and inh...

Due to the burgeoning development of electronic commerce (e-commerce),the broader applications of emerging service—Internet baking (e-banking) services have been introduced and provided by financial holding companies or banks at an accelerating rate in recent years since they can provide efficient, reliable, securable, and convenient financial services, such as online payment, deposit/loan, tra...

This paper presents the preliminary findings of a study researching the diffusion and the adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. It reports new research that identifies and explores the key issues that positively and negatively influence retailers in Saudi Arabia regarding the adoption of electronic commerce. Retailers in Saudi Arabia have been reserved in their adoption of electronicall...

Web based e-banking is becoming an important aspect of worldwide commerce. The United Nations predicts 17% of purchases by firms and individuals will be conducted online by 2006. The future of Web-based e-banking in developed areas appears bright but consumers and merchants in developing countries face in number of barriers to successful e-banking, including less reliable telecommunications inf...

Despite significant efforts to initiate electronic government projects, developing countries are still struggling to reap the benefits of using e-government services. An effective implementation of e-government infrastructure is necessary to increase the efficiency and transparency of the government services. There are several studies that observed causes like lack of infrastructure support, la...

Credit card payment system is the most popular way to make a purchase on electronic commerce. The main problem about using it is that the customer gives his personal information and credit card number to merchant or payment service provider when he makes a purchase in Internet. The result of this action is the lost of customer’s anonymity and privacy in both the real world and Internet. We prop...

Infomediaries are intermediaries that aggregate information from multiple electronic commerce retailers and provide services of searching and comparison for Internet customers. It provides added values to the traditional one-to-one business-to-customer electronic commerce. Measures that influence the success of Internet commerce has been studied by Torkzadeh and Dhillon (2002) based on the mean...

This research investigates important issues related to e-government services utilization and adoption in a developing country. The purpose was to investigate the primary antecedents related to intention to use egovernment services within the context of an emerging market. Lebanon is a small developing market that is making significant investments in e-government technology. The expectation is t...

Market, technological and legal developments have contributed to a surge of innovation and change in payment systems in recent years, including the development of new means of making payments and the alteration of existing ones. However, many of the recent offerings have failed to gain traction in the e-Commerce marketplace for a variety of reasons. To understand the reasons for this it is nece...

Online payment is significant for paperless trading, but the problem about money laundering and credit fraud is the biggest bottleneck for its development. Making the abundant customer data and financial transaction data be well ordered is a reliable clue of effectively identifying suspicious financial transactions, which is the core of financial supervision. Based on the analysis of existing p...