Over the past decade, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has taken number of steps towards developing its Information Technology sector. Both Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and the Business-to-Business (B2B) ecommerce initiatives were introduced throughout the country. However, no much attention was given to the quality of these developed systems. Our previous work proposed a Quality Evaluation Model (QEM...

2 This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents econometric estimates of the effects of company characteristics and company strategies on the performance of...

The mouse-adapted rabies virus strain CVS-24 has stable variants, CVS-B2c and CVS-N2c, which differ greatly in their pathogenicity for normal adult mice and in their ability to infect nonneuronal cells. The glycoprotein (G protein), which has previously been implicated in rabies virus pathogenicity, shows substantial structural differences between these variants. Although prior studies have ide...

This study proposes a Delphi web-based ontology survey system, which is designed based on the method for obtaining independent forecasts from an expert panel over two or more rounds, with summaries of the anonymous forecasts provided after each round. The platform makes ontology creation more convenient. Recently, there have appeared many studies on webbased survey research, but only a few stud...

This paper shows the evolution of the supply of Mobile Internet applications in Italy utilizing two empirical studies performed at different times (the first one on March 2001 and the second on March 2002). The issues investigated in each empirical study were the following: the number of B2c Wap sites in Italy; the types of application provided by the significant public B2c sites; the usability...

User interfaces are key properties of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) systems, and Web-based reservation systems are an important class of B2C systems. In this paper we show that these systems use a surprisingly broad spectrum of different approaches to handling temporal data in their Web interfaces. Based on these observations and on a literature analysis we develop a Morphological Box to present t...

The development of a real-time intelligent order processing system is one of today’s challenging issues in B2C e-Commerce. This kind of systems can process customers’ orders intelligently and real-timely based on their requirements, such as goods quantity and expected delivery time. However, this kind of systems applicable in B2C e-Commerce is scarce. Hence, we aim to develop such a system by a...

Conceptualising B2C businesses as an innovative class of technology-infused services yields insights into the factors that may lead to success or failure of such businesses. This paper draws from and adapts concepts from services marketing literature and recent thinking on Internet service metrics to present a framework for understanding and analysing B2C businesses.

Despite that business to customers web sites (B2C) are growing very fast and is becoming an important marketing and purchasing channels still customers are not very keen to shop online and are not satisfied with the current design and operation of the shopping websites. Therefore success of e-commerce B2C web sites is still one of the biggest challenges management can face. While B2C success ha...