This paper presents the findings from the first stage of a preliminary study which assessed the potential for an electronic commerce portal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province. Sri Lanka is an island state of contrasts in terms of its electronic commerce and overall ICT capability. In the Capital of Colombo, ICT and electronic commerce capability are relatively sophisticated while in regional Sri L...

Based on the Electronic Commerce Enquête 97/98, one of the largest empirical investigations on business-tobusiness electronic commerce issues in the German-speaking world (n>900), companies’ perception of risk factors in electronic commerce is revealed using multivariate statistical procedures. As a contribution to the field this paper presents the integral relationships and the importance of t...

This study examines the factors that affect Electronic Commerce (EC) adoption in the Arab countries. The five countries that are represented in this study include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. The purpose of this study is analyzing the crucial factors affecting EC adoption among the Arab consumers. The study examines the effect of risk perception, trust and consum...

In this paper we address the weaknesses of current EC applications related to their lack of support for the customer to recognize other people, either other customers or vendors on a specific site, and to communicate with them when desired. We argue that, as electronic commerce grows more popular, there will be an increasing need for more sophisticated application software capable of both handl...

Download time has been recognized as one of the most important technological impediments to electronic commerce (EC). Unfortunately, the exact consequences of this impediment are currently ill-de¤ned. The goal of this study is to extend the work of Rose (2000) and Rose and Straub (1999) to examine how the capabilities of technological delivery impacts the success or failure of EC initiatives. U...

This paper extends the limits to value model of Davern and Kauffman [22] to explore market and process-level factors that impact value flows to firms for their information technology (IT) investments. We characterize IT value in terms of potential value and realized value, and show how each is subject to different effects limits to value that diminish the benefits of the investment. Our typolog...