sive development in electronic commerce. The reasons for that are, of course, the Internet and the World Wide Web, which are making electronic commerce much more accessible. They offer easily usable and low cost forms of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce on the basis of the Internet is set to become a very important way of doing business. Forrester (1997) forecasts that businessto-busine...

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...

With the development of science and technology, the Internet is growing increasingly popular with the Chinese people. Accompany with the increment of online consumers groups, an increasing number of traditional enterprises have introduced the electronic commerce mode. This paper is intended to make a preliminary analysis of the B2C electronic commerce pattern. At first, it will introduce the co...

Received: 8 April 2003 Revised: 17 October 2003 2nd Revision: 15 March 2004 Accepted: 24 March 2004 Online publication date: 18 May 2004 Abstract The study discussed in this paper uses case studies of six small voluntary organizations to determine the primary factors that influence electronic commerce (EC) adoption. The findings indicate that perceived benefits, including efficiency, informatio...

In the last decade, electronic commerce has significantly contributed to national economic growth. This is evident in that “according to Forrester Research, the United States (US) online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012”. (Source: http://www.sescommerce.com/ecommerce-growth.asp; accessed 9 May 2009) And yet, although the electronic commerce ma...

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 ...

Recently, as the Internet has become more widely used, Electronic Commerce (EC) has emerged and has developed a high-level business environment. The customer-centric EC model is important for the success of EC and this study presents a new customer-centric EC model in make-to-order (MTO) semiconductor manufacturing environment. In this study we proposed the EC model providing the process transp...

Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . The exponential growth that has recently characterized the diffusion of electronic commerce (EC) applications could lead companies of any size to plan new investments, in order to compete in an increasingly dynamic market. The first business experiences show that EC should be considered a competitive instrument not simply affecting econo...

With the development of electronic commerce, the credit problem has become a bottleneck for the development of E-commerce, through analysis of E-commerce credit evaluation factors, using the factor analysis and dynamic adjustment mode, construction of electronic commerce credit evaluation model. Through the experimental simulation, the model can effectively reduce the influence of electronic co...