While the concept of economic development has been widely used to understand the health and wealth of countries, it is accepted that the access to the internet for electronic commerce transactions enable generation in income and improvements in lives. However, with the rise of disparities in income within countries, electronic commerce opportunities can be limited to the few with internet acces...

This paper surveys management and policy issues concerning the development of electronic commerce in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The region has the world’s fastest growth rate of Internet connectivity, and firms in several countries are positioning themselves to quickly take advantage of electronic commerce. Presently, electronic commerce capability is concentrated among export-oriented fir...

Electronic commerce and its related activities over the internet can be the engines that improve domestic economic well-being through liberalization of domestic services, more rapid integration into globalization of production, and leap-frogging of available technology. Electronic commerce integrates the domestic and global markets from its very inception. Negotiating on trade issues related to...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) 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 information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect bu...

With the rapid development of computer technology, especially the rapid development of network technology and the acceleration of global economic integration, electronic commerce has been used more and more widely. This also puts forward a new standard for the enterprise application computer to business activities. On one hand, we should take into account the advanced nature of the electronic c...

Traditional B2C Electronic Commerce architecture instigated using n-Tier Client/Server architecture has continually been sluggish, intricate, and costly. With the advent of Cloud computing environment, the amenities vital for the Electronic Commerce architecture are accomplished by proficient organization, which comprises servers, storage supervision, network skills, and virtualization technolo...

Although electronic commerce has been emerged as a global phenomenon, several countries lag behind in terms of Internet and electronic commerce use. Indeed, the vast majority of the world population does not have access to the Internet and lacks the technological skills and the knowledge to do so. The particularities of nontechnologically advanced countries make policy making for electronic com...

Opportunities coming from electronic commerce provide interesting support options for the agrifood sector. However, due to the product specific information asymmetry in the agrifood sector, the anonymity of the medium creates a lack of trust increasing transaction costs to engage in e-commerce. This paper develops a trust model for electronic commerce in the agrifood industry allowing for the a...