The rapid proliferation of the Internet has allowed many firms to use this new technology to run Web-based electronic stores to expand their markets and to enhance the operational performance. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate why electronic commerce benefits some industries more than others, and what factors affect the impact of using e-Stores on performance in different industries. ...

There is a growing recognition that e-market planners and various planning agencies in Information Technology sectors have a significant interest in measuring and forecasting the growth of e-commerce. The difficulties lie in finding a forecasting model that can incorporate both internal and external influences on diffusion, as well as an acceptable measure for e-commerce growth. This study uses...

A benchmark is used to measure and compare the performance of like systems. It is also used to estimate the scalability of a system in terms of the number of users and/or transactions that a system can support and system response times under different loads and hardware/software deployment platforms. Because of the multidimensional aspects of e-commerce and the various emerging and distinct e-c...

Electronic commerce applications are a challenging new class of information systems. Due to the everincreasing technical possibilities, new, yet undiscovered ways of doing business are possible. Therefore, requirements for e-commerce systems can hardly be elicited but instead need to be created because elicitation requires a dormant view of users on requirements. Also, E-commerce systems are, i...

Media companies and retailers make increasing efforts to integrate content-oriented and commerceoriented business models online. This has led to the emergence of a new type of business model called content-driven commerce, which has yet to be examined in any depth. In this study, we adopt a phenomenon-based approach and investigate how both media companies and retailers implement content-driven...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

Rapid evolution of information technology has contributed to the evolution of more sophisticated Ecommerce system with the better transaction time and protection. The currently used E-commerce models lack in quality properties such as logical security because of their poor designing and to face the highly equipped and trained intruders. This editorial proposed a security framework for small and...

Electronic commerce has taken off. Whatever concerns about consumer acceptance there were five years ago have given way to “click and mortar” business models where ecommerce has an established role complementing traditional commerce. The digital publishing market segment, approximately $8 billion today, is expected to reach $70 billion by 2004. A significant portion of the GDPs of the industria...

Many existing research approaches on business models in e-commerce are on a high and aggregated level. Furthermore, there are few empirical insights into the appropriateness of chosen e-commerce business models. The paper at hand focuses on the empirical analysis of the last mile issue in b2c ecommerce. For this purpose a research framework for e-commerce business models is presented that serve...