Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce is a growing area of e-commerce. However, according to a meta-analysis of critical themes of e-commerce , C2C e-commerce was only represented in the area of online auctions (Wareham, Zheng, & Straub, 2005). C2C e-commerce can encompass much more than just auctions. The question then becomes, " is C2C e-commerce a different research area that deserves its ow...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has become an increasingly important initiative among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as both a great opportunity and as a source of competition. The factors affecting adoption decisions of e-commerce by SMEs have been well documented, but there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce in the Arab world. The aim of this chapt...

M-commerce uses the potential of wireless technologies to expand the reach of e-commerce applications to any time and any place. Mobile applications can be used to support transactions with customers and suppliers and to conduct e-business within and across organizational boundaries and are becoming an integral part of an organization’s strategy. M-commerce has great potential to promote global...

Students of social movements have long struggled with the question how relatively abstract political opportunities, such as elite divisions, affect unorganized activists without much knowledge of politics. We argue that the relationship between institutional opportunities and decisions to mobilize may take the form of trickle-down politics. In this view activists are affected by political oppor...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) or e-commerce over mobile devices, has become a major topic of interest for the information systems research community and a key priority for many business organizations. However, m-commerce includes a large range of various services, especially with regard to numerous value-added services. Since Thailand small and medium enterprises have been transformed themselves...

As industrial processes have changed with the advent of e-commerce, banking industry, in turn, has changed. Implementation of electronic banking in any country requires different infrastructures including its material and human resources that the growth of technology and innovation in banks on the one hand, have increased the speed and quality of operations and services, and on the other hand, ...

At present, China has more than 6000 agricultural website. But with the development of network technology, further perfect the logistics distribution technology and the consumer is the pursuit of personalized demand situation, agricultural e-commerce website will have great development space, through the investigation of related domestic website found that domestic agricultural e-commerce is st...

E-commerce has been one of the success stories of the last decade. Developments in wireless communications and mobile computing have heralded an era of mobile commerce (m-commerce). Though a number of successful applications and services have been deployed, these are almost invariably inherently static in nature. By augmenting m-commerce with intelligent and autonomous components, the significa...