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This paper addresses the functional structure of agricultural electronic marketplaces, together with associated pricing mechanisms. The analysis of transaction costs suggests that electronic commerce with intermediaries provides more efficient trading environments than electronic marketplace without intermediaries. This indicates that existing intermediary institutions will remain important for...

Park, Jung Min. Ph.D., Purdue University, August, 2003. Efficient Primitives for Ensuring Security in E-Commerce Transactions. Major Professors: Edwin K. P. Chong and Howard Jay Siegel. Fueled by the exponential growth in the number of people with access to the Internet, electronic-commerce (e-commerce) transactions via the Internet have become a major part of our economy. For a wider range of ...

Component-based e-commerce technology is a recent trend towards resolving the e-commerce challenge at both system and application levels. Instead of delivering a system as a prepackaged monolith system containing any conceivable feature, component-based systems consist of a lightweight kernel to which new features can be added in the form of components. In order to identify the central problems...

Innovations in information technology (IT) have affected all types of business transactions. In order to have an efficient physical supply chain, it is essential to establish equally efficient informational and financial supply chains. In this paper, we study the role of IT in establishing a comprehensive supply chain network. INTRODUCTION Organizations are forced to think in supply chain terms...

National governments have a legitimate rôle to play in the development of national strategies to support electronic commerce. It is not always clear, however, what any electronic commerce legislation should incorporate or how regulation of electronic commerce should be implemented. This paper explores the strategic issues that underlie national electronic commerce strategies by following the pa...

Electronic commerce is becoming one of the drivers of competition and is starting playing a role in industry structural change and in affecting the competitive advantage of companies. In this article it is showed how electronic commerce might affect the scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing sector. More specifically the paper looks at the emergence of the electronic journal as a su...

While the adoption rate of electronic commerce by organizations has grown significantly over the years and that they have achieved substantial savings and benefits, it has also presented numerous new challenges for them to conduct business activities in the electronic environment. This trend has prompted a need for existing business models to be reviewed, including the adoption of appropriate e...

Electronic commerce as one of the most important of Innovation aspects in the process of doing business is used by many organizations and companies in the world. Cooperatives as the main part of the country's economy have fundamental role in improving and promoting of economic. Therefore, innovation methods and tools, new processes and perform business tasks such as e-commerce will play an i...

Electronic commerce as one of the most important of Innovation aspects in the process of doing business is used by many organizations and companies in the world. Cooperatives as the main part of the country's economy have fundamental role in improving and promoting of economic. Therefore, innovation methods and tools, new processes and perform business tasks such as e-commerce will play an i...