Integration and customization are increasingly becoming the dominant trends in the future of electronic commerce (e-commerce). Advances in networking, communications, and distributed computing technologies make it possible to better leverage internal and external competencies. E-business extends the consumer-centric e-commerce realm by including the business-to-business aspect of commerce. This...

With China's economic development and the improvement of people's living standards, the university students' tourism market has gradually become an important segment and showed great vigor. Through the investigation of China’s university students, this article illustrates the status quo on the operation of E-commerce in university students' tourism market, analyzes the problems existing in the ...

This paper presents the issues related to the different kinds of Broker Agents for electronic commerce. The specificity of electronic commerce of multimedia products and services is considered, proposing a classification of this kind of systems based on different characteristics and levels of complexity. The classification is also based on previous models (functional and architectural) for elec...

This study investigates the composition of consumer’s security and privacy perceptions of mobile commerce (m-commerce) and the factors shaping these security and privacy perceptions. Based on literature review, we examined the effect of eight determinants: information type, information collection, secondary use of information, error, unauthorized access, location awareness, information transfer...

Internet firms succeed is the “business model.” Much of the success of such e-commerce pioneers as Dell, Amazon, and eBay has been attributed to their novel Internet business models. And one of the first questions in assessing any new e-commerce venture during the Internet boom was likely to be, “What’s the business model?” Conversely, when high-profile businesses like Boo.com have failed, this...

Business model is abstract rational cognition about how corporation created, delivered and obtained value and is the enterprise’s core competitive advantages from the perspective of value creation. This article found that research perspective of representation models of e-commerce business model mostly concentrated on value creation perspective and there are two categories: EBMO and e3-value Mo...

This paper aims to explore the optimal marketing channel of e-commerce enterprises with various consumer base size and product added-value in social commerce. By characterizing utility, we construct decision-making models under traditional platform (TECP) two kinds commerce channels involving “e-commerce + social” (ECPS) “social media business’ (SMB). Then, obtain strategy for each by using Kar...

The Internet offers a unique opportunity for e-commerce to take central stage in the rapidly growing online economy. With the advent of the Web, the first generation of business-to-consumer (B2C) applications was developed and deployed. Classical examples include virtual shops, on-demand delivery of contents, and e-travel agency. Another facet of e-commerce is represented by businessto-business...

A process model, in the context of e-commerce, is an organized set of activities for the creation, (re)production, trade and delivery of goods. Electronic commerce studies have created important process models for the trade of physical goods via Internet. These models are not easily suitable for the trade of information goods. Lowly codified information goods are hard to represent unambiguously...