The Web is exciting because of its potential to be ubiquitous soon. So electronic commerce will be tightly coupled to this medium and people will buy goods over the Internet instead of going to stores. The precondition for electronic commerce is that existing information systems are enhanced to support the Web. Another exciting opportunity will be the distribution of software components over th...

The future of electronic commerce will be shaped by open, heterogeneous and complex structures, consisting of networked marketplaces. Software agents will interact and negotiate on behalf of their human (or organizational) principals. Principals will be able to implement fraudulent strategies in their agents, which cannot be countered by technical security alone. In the absence of a single corr...

As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important ...

In recent years, it has been widely stated that electronic commerce will signify the dawn of a friction-free market (Gates, 1995). Página 1 de 20 Electronic Commerce and the Implications for Market Structure 11/10/01 http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol5/issue3/adelaar.htm Structural changes in markets, such as disintermediation, would occur due to the impact of electronic trade and electronic inform...

The object of this article is to present the most cited maturity models and the organizational evolutions, instigated mainly by Internet and electronic commerce. We will observe with these theories, how companies become progressively more flexible, more externalized, less centralized within a network, due to e-commerce. Keywords— Internet, e-commerce , maturity stages, integration, new organiza...

the character of cosmopolitanism in e-commerce disputes is much more complicated than in normal international transactions. internet environment has created challenges and changes about the governing law of contracts in this space. this cyber space has technical and legal differences in compared with physical environment. in this paper, we intend to answer this question that in dispute arising ...

The Internet is a global and borderless environment, and it will be a challenge having to identify and trust the other party whom one is transacting with. Developing and communicating trustworthiness to one’s business partners is crucial at a time when business opportunities in e-commerce are flourishing. The objective of this study is to examine the role that trust plays and the extent to whic...

Electronic commerce or e-commerce can be briefly defined as a financial transaction or commercial information between two parties based on data transmitted over communication networks (Soriano & Ponce, 2002). It relies upon users’ interventions to initiate a transaction and select the main steps of the process. Users’ actions stem from a succession of virtual decisions. Indeed, when shopping wi...