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Electronic markets have successfully adopted third party trust seals as a self-regulatory mechanism to enhance consumer trust. While there exist many papers supporting the effectiveness of trust signals, interaction between trusts seals and contextual factors in e-commerce (e.g., value of shopping carts, number of trust seals displayed, shopper experience and retailer’s sales volume) is an unde...

This paper discusses the key elements of effective and successful strategies for organisations engaging in Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Markets. Existing literature have concentrated on developing schemas for categorising B2B Electronic Markets, and evaluating the innovative business models they employ, with less focus on understanding the business value of B2B Electronic Markets from ...

For the individual or organization wishing to employ a scientific approach in solving decision problems, there is a plethora of relevant concepts, methods, models, and software. Yet, relative to their potential or to peer software such as database technologies, decision technologies are little used in real-world decision making. We argue that at least some of the problems that restrict the use ...

In recent years, electronic markets have gained much attention as institutions to allocate goods and services efficiently between buyers and sellers. By leveraging the Web as a global communication medium, electronic markets provide a platform that allows participants throughout the world to spontaneously exchange products in a flexible manner. However, ensuring interoperability and mutual unde...

The Internet is quickly changing the way business-to-consumer and business-tobusiness commerce is conducted in the world. The Electronic Revolution has also spawned a trend of price wars and, in some instances, chaos because of the zero-sum nature of the electronic channel. The technology has created an opportunity to get beyond the lose-lose nature of single issue price wars by determining sel...

The advent of nearly ubiquitous information infrastructures has led many to predict that one effect of electronic markets will be the bypassing of intermediaries in electronic markets. The ability of electronic networks to reduce transaction costs is the theoretical cause of this supposed trend. We suggest that, on the contrary, not only is it likely that widely available information infrastruc...

The Internet creates opportunities for micro-level unbundling in stockbroking and other information-intensive industries. This research proposes a framework to capture the unbundling effects on value chains and illustrates the opportunities for the case of the Australian securities market. Inter-organisational work and data-flow models are employed to describe the phases of on-line trading and ...