Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce...

Eine genauere Betrachtung der Electronic Commerce-Szenerie ergibt ein reichlich widersprüchliches Bild: Einerseits reißt die Serie von Erfolgsmeldungen eindrucksvoller Beispiele umsatzstarker Unternehmen mit Web-Präsenz nicht ab, andererseits bewahrheiten sich viele euphorische Voraussagen zum Erfolg von Electronic Commerce-Aktivitäten für Unternehmen nicht einmal annähernd. Verlustmeldungen be...

This paper presents electronic cash as a catalyst to electronic commerce. Electronic Cash facilitates business transactions not only between customers and merchants, but also between customer to customer transactions. This paper discusses a survey regarding electronic cash that was done in University of Puerto Rico in 2004. This survey analyses what the students think about electronic cash as a...

Electronic commerce (e-Commerce) involves a complex set of business workflows regarding the buying and selling of products or services by means of electronic systems such as the Internet. e-Commerce applications can be supported, amongst other alternatives, by content management systems (CMS) through specific

As the second generation of electronic commerce, the framework of agent based commerce is proposed. Since the communication messages and solution methods of agents are significantly influenced by the contract type, we have defined the grammar of contracts first. By using this generalized contract grammar, we can express new creative contract types as well as the traditional ones like bids and a...