There is an implicit assumption in electronic commerce that induces the buyers to believe that their deals will be handled appropriately. However, after a seller has already committed to a buyer, he may be tempted by several requests though he will not be able to supply them all. We analyze markets in which a finite set of automated buyers interacts repeatedly with a finite set of automated sel...

Trust plays an important role between companies and customers in the online shopping environment because of the anonymous transaction environment and the advantage of virtual property. The most rapidly developing trend in Chinese e-business may come from Guanxi, a Chinese term for social trust. In this study, we define Guanxi as the dynamic trust process in the social decisions or activities of...

In this era of exponential advancements in information and communication technology, the world has witnessed a high pace contribution of technology in every filed of life. The use of mobile services for doing commerce activities is increasing day by day. Mobile companies are concerned to know the factors to increase the usage even further. This research measures the factors which foster the con...

Received Dec 9, 2016 Revised Mar 27, 2017 Accepted Apr 11, 2017 This study aims to analyze empirically three factors antecedents of trust they are system quality, information quality, and service quality. Customer trust is used in determining customer intention to purchase of e-commerce in social media (facebook). A number of respondents were 451. The results of this study concluded that three ...

Studies on the adoption of business-to-consumer e-commerce have not simultaneously considered trust and risk as important determinants of adoption behavior. Further, trust in information technology has not been addressed to a great extent in the context of e-commerce. This research explicitly encompasses the electronic channel and the firm as objects to be trusted in e-commerce. Our conceptual ...

This study explores factors significantly impact the acceptance of Wireless Internet via Mobile Technology (WIMT) in China. The results indicate that the acceptance of WIMT is related with factors of: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influences, wireless trust environment, and facilitating conditions. It provides diagnostic insight into how different factors influence user in...

Mobile phone usage and its adoption have been growing at exponential rates. It is this exponential growth rate that has led many to predict Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) as the next major evolution of Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce). While M-Commerce comes rich with unique features, it is currently lacking in usage when compared to traditional e-commerce. There are many challenges that must be ...

Social commerce (s-commerce) is a rapidly developing form of e-commerce powered by social media influencers (SMIs). It can create valuable opportunities for retailers. In light this growing trend, study explores the influence consumers’ engagement experiences (social support and presence) on community identification attachment to SMIs, along with their impact stickiness in s-commerce context. W...

The problem to detect the similarity or the difference between objects are faced regularly in several domains of applications such as e-commerce, social network, expert system, data mining, decision support system, etc. This paper introduces a general model for measuring the similarity between objects based on their attributes. In this model, the similarity on each attribute is defined with dif...

Simply selling products online can no longer guarantee profits for e-businesses especially for new comers to the e-commerce industry, as the competition among companies is more intense. In order to keep existing customers and make new ones, e-businesses have to provide products and services that feel personal to their clients. This research proposes a framework for improving a user’s e-commerce...