Current research on electronic-commerce focused mainly on fair and e cient transfer of money and goods between a client and a vendor. Inter-enterprise electronic commerce, though, bestows a more complex setting on the trade by adding a new dimension to the individual-merchant frame. The parties involved in a purchase are no longer autonomous entities, but are members of an organization whose ru...

We studied the effect of two social settings (collaborative versus competitive) on the visual and auditory expressions of uncertainty by children in two age groups (8 and 11). We conducted an experiment in which children played a quiz game in pairs. They either had to collaborate or compete with each other. We found that the Feeling-of-Knowing of eight-year-old children did not seem to be affec...

In this paper, we explore how electronic commerce, the World-Wide Web in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and informationdriven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; with many market-intermediaries (agents and brokers who connect buyers and s...

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce is gaining a wide consensus both from the academia and from the industry, since it provides the right abstractions, models and tools to face the challenges that electronic commerce raises. According to C.Sierra, e-commerce can be described as organization + mechanism + trust, where mechanism is concerned with the rules that govern the interaction among agents ...

Internet commerce applications are significantly different from the information systems that were being developed just a few years ago. Multi-skilled, collaborative teams are required to oversee the start-up and on-going development of Web applications for Internet commerce. The evolutionary nature of these systems requires a different management approach. Business strategy is the driving force...

advancement in e-commerce technologies and emerge of web 2.0 applications developed e-commerce. nowadays, customers are entering new platform, where they are more active than before through participating in business process with the web 2.0 applications. by the impact of the new stream in e-commerce, social commerce, we propose and test an adoption model at the customer level. impact of social ...

The initial hype created by the emergence of mobile computing technologies has slowly given way to a large amount of skepticism. Even though some m-commerce applications have already made their way to the marketplace, experts now predict that it will still be some time before the potential of mcommerce can finally be realized. This pessimism is largely due to the fact that the technologies invo...

The need for online consumer protection laws has accompanied the growth of e-commerce in global market. These aim to provide a safe and secure environment transactions. impact on market is significant. have increased confidence transactions, resulting sales businesses. Secondly, they created level playing field businesses, regardless size, by setting minimum standards However, implementing thes...