2012 was named as “the first year of Fresh Electronic Commerce” in China. Then the Electronic Commerce of fresh and fresh home delivery obtained rapid development. Although the development speed of fresh home delivery is fast, it still could not meet the demand of Fresh Electronic Commerce. The aim of this paper is to analyze the current situation of development of “the last mile” of Chinese fr...

This paper examines the market structure and mechanism of electronic commerce from a microeconomic perspective. There are many similarities between electronic commerce setting and classical competitive market structure. The paper argues that one can attain an equilibrium in an electronic commerce setting in which supply and demand are converged at a level that maximizes firm’s revenue and consu...

In electronic commerce, the challenges of payment transactions were initially underestimated. Business via the internet and mobile telephony has so far been dominated by the methods of payment systems in traditional business. However, in light of advances in e-commerce, traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. To understand the concept of electronic commerce,...

In this paper we report on a project carried out at the University of Linz, initially involving electronic marketing of a software product developed by a team of students. The aim of the project, in part, was to develop in the students an understanding of practical issues of electronic commerce and entrepreneurship. We report on this aspect and comment also on security issues raised concerning ...

today, e-commerce has considerable portion in commercial businesses, and it has been developing. one of the most important steps in e-commerce is e-payment that has been done through different tools such as e-banking, and e-cheques. in this type of electronic transactions, there are always different worries both for payers and payees due to untruthfulness. for example, amount modifying, date mo...

Business-to-Business(B2B) ecommerce has been in existence ever since GM introduced Electronic Data Interchange in the 1980’s as a technology to do business with its suppliers (Premkumar, 2003). The utilization of the Internet for business paved the way for web-based B2B. The arena in which B2B commerce takes place is called an Electronic Marketplace (EM). B2B is a more significant component of ...

E-commerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods and services through the electronic medium. B2B, B2C, C2C and similar opportunity help consumer preferences and consumer markets developing electronic infrastructure for challenges of the future. E-commerce has revolutionized business, changing the shape of competition with internet (The NET) ,the computer communication ...