Mobile commerce (m-commerce) has emerged as the promising approach for driving the next wave of e-commerce. A major issue facing m-commerce is the lack of flexible, adaptable, extensible, and robust architectures for mobile and pervasive application systems for m-commerce. To address this issue, our research has explored how to employ mobile agents in developing m-commerce applications. We have...

Increasing numbers of people are spending time focused on “the third screen” of a mobile device. Through ubiquitous connectivity, personalization, and affordability, such mobile devices have become much more than just entertainment handsets.In par‐ ticular, e‐commerce has harnessed the power of wireless computing to expand to mobile commerce (m‐commerce), thus providing consumers with commercia...

Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will face fierce competition from new entrants to local markets as a result of their accession to the Word Trade Organisation (WTO), and electronic commerce (e-commerce) technologies can reinforce SME’s competitive edge. This study investigates the state of e-commerce adoption and analyses the factors that determine the extent to which SMEs in S...

Automatizing information commerce requires languages to represent the typical information commerce processes. Existing languages and standards cover either only very speci c types of business models or are too general to capture in a concise way the speci c properties of information commerce processes. We introduce a language that is speci cally designed for information commerce. It can be dire...

This paper discusses factors that affect the creation of trust and commitment in collaborative commerce (c-commerce). It also discusses decisions that organizations must make when applying c-commerce applications. The goal of the paper is to propose a model to describe the building process of trust and commitment in the context of c-commerce.

The paper points out the significance of information control at first and then arises some Characters of information in e-commerce. Further more, the author analyzes the concept and ways of information integration and information flow control. 1 The Inevitability of Information Control All commercial activities take information as intermediary; the e-commerce superiority lies in the full use of...

this paper attempts to develop a method for readiness assessment of potential electronic commerce (e-commerce) success of iran’s insurance industry. this method can expand in other industries. key factors impacting e-commerce are identified from wells, d. and thomann, j. (2006) researches. this model is a two-dimension 3*4 matrix. each dimension consists of variables that influence on insurance...

E-commerce refers to the utilization of electronic data transmission for enhancing business processes and implementing business strategies. Explicit components of e-commerce include providing after-sales services, promoting services/products to services, processing payment, engaging in transaction processes, identifying customer’s needs, processing payment and creating services/products. In rec...

In this study, we developed a set of constructs to measure e-commerce capability in Internetenhanced organizations. The e-commerce capability metrics consist of four dimensions: information, transaction, customization, and supplier connection. These measures were empirically validated for reliability, content, and construct validity. Then we examined the nomological validity of these e-commerce...

The primary difference between mobile commerce (m-Commerce) and electronic commerce is its use in various contexts. Electronic commerce is mostly used in the predetermined environment of the Internet. Delivering relevant things to the right people at the right time in the right way becomes a key issue for m-Commerce: user information and context information are critical to the success of m-Comm...