This article identifies how pure electronic commerce transforms the creatorpublisher relationship in the book and software industries. Pure electronic commerce refers to a transaction that uses information systems to avoid physical exchange and occurs entirely in the digital form. Using coordination and transaction cost theory as a theoretical framework, this article posits that coordination co...

the aim of this paper is to identify the quality factors of business to business (b2b) electronic commerce applications. having in mind the above-mentioned goal, a model will be developed in three phases. at the first stage, well-known software quality models are studied for choosing a model as the basis and using the quality factors of web applications and through referring to the quality char...

INTRODUCTION This article is designed to give the reader a balanced perspective on some of the issues surrounding the current discussions related to state and local taxation of Internet access fees and sales transactions. It attempts to express the issues being discussed and presents several viewpoints. The proponents of Internet taxation are searching for technological and administrative syste...

Because small and medium sized businesses form the basis of the national economy, creating conditions under which they can maintain stable growth in a more competitive environment is a principal challenge for continuous economic growth. Due to a lack of managerial resources in practice, however, they experience difficulties in raising funds and accessing the financial market. On the other hand,...

First-generation E-commerce applications, such as corporate web sites or electronic catalogs have often been developed from a technological or marketing perspective. Technological features do not fit the customer’s requirements or marketing does not conceive E-commerce as part of their customer relationship program. Disappointing transaction figures or business cases for E-commerce are the most...

Among the ASEAN members, compared to other Indonesia is relatively more liberal in opening up international trade financial services, especially banking sector. Through its submission of CIO WTO 2005, some degree offered certain liberalization sector, together with services governed under GATS. On hand, members show their carefulness liberalizing sectors. As consequence, on one hand foreign ban...

Electronic commerce demands different security requirements for its many different applications. In the near future one smartcard may be used for many electronic commerce applications, such as payment systems, access to banking services and financial transactions over the Internet. A role and task based security model (R&T model) can ensure a secure access to many different services through an ...

While the Internet serves as a virtual marketplace that is dramatically changing the way business is conducted, security and privacy issues are of deeper concern than ever before. The evolutionary nature of electronic commerce systems, highlights the need for conceptual support for requirements discovery, elaboration and validation. Moreover, there is great need for mechanisms to provide practi...

As the technology shifts from traditional to electronic, electronic to mobile the way of commerce is also changed. But apart from all of these technologies and advancement we look another emerging field of wireless communication during this research, called U-Commerce. U-commerce transforms the traditional commerce either geographic or electronic or mobile to a world of unique networks having u...