T he worldwide proliferation of the Internet has led to the emergence of an extensive range of services—one of the most popular being electronic commerce (e-commerce).1 Recent technological advances in the design of portable devices, along with increasing high-speed Internet access and mobile networking technologies, have enabled users to employ such devices anywhere, anytime to perform e-comme...

sive development in electronic commerce. The reasons for that are, of course, the Internet and the World Wide Web, which are making electronic commerce much more accessible. They offer easily usable and low cost forms of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce on the basis of the Internet is set to become a very important way of doing business. Forrester (1997) forecasts that businessto-busine...

The use of Electronic Commerce (EC) technologies enables Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to improve their efficiency and competitive position. Much of the literature proposes an extensive set of benefits for organizations that choose to adopt and implement ECommerce systems. Factors of Business –to-business (B2B) E-Commerce adoption and implementation have been extensively investigated. Despite...

E lectronic commerce continues to see phenomenal growth, but so far most e-commerce development involves wired infrastructures. We believe emerging wireless and mobile networks will provide new avenues for growth, creating new opportunities in mobile commerce. The exponential growth of wireless and mobile networks has brought vast changes in mobile devices, middleware development, standards and...

In the last decade, electronic commerce has significantly contributed to national economic growth. This is evident in that “according to Forrester Research, the United States (US) online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012”. (Source: http://www.sescommerce.com/ecommerce-growth.asp; accessed 9 May 2009) And yet, although the electronic commerce ma...

Rapid increases in information technology also changed the existing markets and transformed them into emarkets (e-commerce) from physical markets. Equally with the e-commerce evolution, enterprises have to recover a safer approach for implementing E-commerce and maintaining its logical security. SOA is one of the best techniques to fulfill these requirements. SOA holds the vantage of being easy...

This paper applies real options analysis to analyze the optimal decision of adopting e-commerce when a firm’s output price is uncertain. The traditional discount cash flow method ignores the value of timing and operational flexibility. Therefore, it might underestimate the value of adopting e-commerce. The paper is the first study to build a theoretical derivation to detect the impact of adopti...

A Conceptual Investigation of the E-commerce Industry Electronic commerce, or activities that directly support commerce by means of electronic (networked) connections , is redefining the very foundations of competitiveness in terms of information content and information delivery mechanisms. Flows of information over international networks have created an electronic marketspace [8] of firms that...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is an increasingly important component of the consumer and business marketplace which, according to ABI Research, is expected to grow to $119 billion in 2015. With the large number of users and the prevalence of smart phones, m-commerce presents an opportunity for businesses to expand their market (and the potential threat to lose market share if they do not partici...

Information commerce (i-commerce) is a special variant of e-commerce in which the goods being offered for sale are digital and thus amenable to processing by computers. Trading of digital goods opens up new business opportunities and also poses interesting software engineering challenges. We present a general model of information commerce that extends the traditional customer-vendor model with ...