The publishing industry like many other industries has not escaped the impact of information technology in both the production and distribution of the information it creates. From earliest DTP techniques to the selling of books over the internet and the publishing of electronic journals the publishing industry has readily accepted technological innovation. Many publishers are now ready to embra...

Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business activities, requirements for e-commerce applications have to be created from scratch rather than elicited. Second, design decisions about e-business models and the associated information systems architecture cannot be s...

As the second generation of electronic commerce, the framework of the agent based commerce is proposed. Since the communication messages and solution methods of agents are significantly influenced by the contract type, we have defined the grammar of contracts first. By using this generalized contract grammar, we can express new creative contract types as well as traditional ones like bids and a...

This article examines the relationship between electronic commerce and the U.S. state sales and use tax system. A framework of a high-quality tax system is used in this study, and it is applied to taxing electronic commerce sales. The first part of this article analyzes nine principles of an effective tax system and divides these principles into the categories of adequacy of revenue, fairness o...

The value drivers of electronic commerce are not well understood. Based on pioneering work in the field of information technology value, we propose and empirically test a general theory of electronic commerce value. Specifically, we propose that the important factor to consider is the creation of intangible, electronic commerce technology complementing assets. We use the event study methodology...

In this paper, we describe an effective framework for adapting electronic commerce or e-commerce services in developing countries like Bangladesh. The internet has opened up a new horizon for commerce, namely electronic commerce (e-commerce). It entails the use of the internet in the marketing, identification, payment and delivery of goods and services. At present internet facilities are availa...

The rapid growth of the electronic commerce (EC) sector saw the traditional business models of many large organizations being challenged by internet technology-based dot.com start-ups. One reason that can be identified for this is the inability of the information technology (IT) units of these large organizations to respond in a timely manner to the technological innovation and entrepreneurial ...

As electronic business transactions over the Internet become more popular, users and markets pose new requirements on both electronic commerce services and the applications implementing them. These requirements include support for multiuser business protocols, cooperation among users, and real-time (multimedia) interaction. The development of this kind of electronic commerce applications is a c...

In a Web-based electronic commerce system, users browse product information offered by an online store and submit requests to purchase selected items. From the user’s perspective, response time is a factor that could impact the acceptability of electronic commerce. This article is concerned with system architectures for online stores. Emphasis is placed on techniques to improve a system’s capac...

Definitions of electronic commerce are many and varied. They indicate a lack of consensus about what electronic commerce is. ‘A ‘definition’ implies a direct and unproblematic correspondence between the phenomena and the way a researcher identifies it. However, electronic commerce presents a reality that is too complex for a mere definition to extract its true ‘essence’. Weber’s ‘ideal type’ pr...