Although electronic commerce (e-commerce) can be a source of competitive advantage, will e-commerce businesses in countries like China flourish when governments still take a “wait-and-see attitude” as to prompting, protecting, and regulating e-commerce? The paper employs transaction cost economics in analyzing the role of government in regulating electronic contracting. Due to the transaction c...

The Internet continues to grow as a medium to support commerce. Economic analysis of Internet commerce is still in a nascent stage while Internet technology and use has rapidly advanced. The result is an Internet marketplace brimming with entrepreneurs and major corporations experimenting with business strategies and technology advances even though the economics of Internet commerce is not well...

Guilan province is located in north of Iran. It plays an important natural, economic and strategic role in Iranian history due to its geographical location between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz Mountain. This particular characteristic of Guilan has made it one of the most important political centers in its history and in the history of its struggles against the central government of Iran. Iran...

The growth of business-to-business e-commerce has highlighted the role of computer and communications technologies as well as inter-organizational trust in developing and maintaining business-to-business relationships. Despite the acknowledged importance of trust, only a limited amount of research exists and that examines the role of trust in these relationships. By investigating inter-organiza...

1 Industrial Marketing and e-Commerce Research Group, Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences Department, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå 2 Department of Academic Affairs, Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 3 Department of Industrial Economics and Management (INDEK), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and Industrial Marketing and ...

Ravi Bapna is the Board of Overseers Professor of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, university of Minnesota. he received his Ph.D. from the university of Connecticut. Dr. Bapna is the founding academic co-director of the university of Minnesota’s Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative (SOBACO). his research interests are in the areas of economics ...

ERP implementations have the potential of significantly complementing the use of business-to-business e-commerce technologies. We consider the sources of this complement by drawing on transaction cost economics, the resource-based view of the firm and the theory of swift even flow. Analysis of 115 firms shows that perceived transactional efficiencies are greater for B2B e-commerce technologies ...

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This paper introduces the theory and method of Transaction Cost Economics to identify the essence of e-commerce model by explicating its core objective and function. From the correspondence of transactions and governance structures, the author also discusses the design principle of an ecommerce model. The analysis shows that so-called e-commerce model in commercial practice could be identified ...