In this paper, we explore how electronic commerce, the World-Wide Web in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and informationdriven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; with many market-intermediaries (agents and brokers who connect buyers and s...

Many researchers and practitioners consider user participation in the development of an information system is essential to the success of the system. System designers have promoted development techniques that demand user participation, such as prototyping, rapid application development and joint application design. Interestingly, the research literature on the topic has not been conclusive abou...

INTRODUCTION The Internet economy is becoming an integral part of many countries' economies, creating new jobs, giving rise to new companies like the dot coms and transforming traditional jobs and traditional companies. The Internet is increasingly becoming a part of the basic business model for many companies as organizations around the world are adopting new e-business models, integrated solu...

Bank supervision and monetary policy are strategic concepts in the economy of countries. Development of electronic communications, especially in online and international spheres, has largely threatened financial services in view of security and illegal access to banking networks. Anonymity and identity theft has endangered electronic commerce by crimes like phishing, fraud and different types...

Response time is a key differentiation point among electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications. For many e-commerce applications, web pages are created dynamically based on the current state of a business stored in database systems. To improve the response time, many e-commerce websites deploy caching solutions for acceleration of content delivery. There are multiple tiers in the content deli...

The study reported in this paper was undertaken in an attempt to identify and understand the impacts of electronic commerce in the car retail industry in Western Australia. Much of the existing literature in electronic commerce puts forward theoretical models and speculative argumentation in an attempt to describe and understand the electronic commerce phenomenon. In contradistinction to this t...

E-commerce is a cyber, electronic and informational business activities. Electronic commerce has been developing rapidly in recent years in China. Cloud computing provides a new idea for the development of electronic commerce. In practice, cloud computing also has a very good combination of e-commerce. To predict the profit of electronic commerce can find the existing problems, grasp the develo...

Much of the rhetoric about Web-based electronic commerce focuses on its use in reaching global markets. Yet not all businesses can or should target global audiences. The literature on electronic commerce to date does not provide adequate guidance about the ways that local merchants can exploit synergies between their local physical presence and electronic commerce on the Web. In this paper, pot...

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...