this study determines the impact of e-commerce (ec) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( tfp) of iran country as a developing country in comparison with us standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. the model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. on the...

Ž . The purpose of this paper is to study how Intelligent Agents IAs can be used to facilitate electronic trading. An IA is a software program designed for performing a specific task based on its own knowledge and the message it received. Given the increased complexity of Internet services, many IAs are useful to make electronic markets more effective. In the paper, activities and structures of...

This paper reports on a research study concerning the integration of electronic commerce (EC) into the pre-sales business processes of small firms. By means of a field survey, 17 small firms were examined at the end of their first year of participation in an EC network that matches procurement bids of large governmental and private sector buyers with small firm suppliers. Similar to past resear...

Electronic Commerce (EC) is becoming an increasingly important activity in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a model of the factors influencing the levels of EC adoption and EC success in SMEs. Case studies of five SMEs in the IT industry were used to explore two constructs in the EC literature: (1) EC adoption and (2) EC success. Both were found to be relevant and ...

Understanding the significance of various online processes in establishing and sustaining electronic commerce (EC) is a key concern for retailers and business in general. This paper replicates and extends the Basu and Muylle [Decision Support Systems 34 (2003)] study examining the extent to which companies in various industries are supporting online processes through their retail Web sites. Usi...

Based on ethnographic studies of two business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (EC) marketplaces and a review of interorganizational relationship literature, this paper proposes a model explaining why organizations form alliances to create and why organizations join B2B EC marketplaces. This paper proposes viewing B2B EC marketplaces as a public good. The paper uses public good theory as a...

This study discusses the potential of electronic commerce (EC) and its impact among the newly emerging economies and the changing landscape of businesses. In assessing the global impact of EC, the study examines the different areas of EC in which Information Technology (IT) can play a vital role with a focus on access and use of infrastructure, global competitiveness and trade, the changing lan...

This article investigates the connection between Electronic Commerce (EC) and Information Discovery (ID). ID is the synthesis of distributed Information Retrieval and Information Filtering, lled in with intelligent agents and information brokers. Currently, no link exists between EC and ID. We argue that this link consists of a cost model for ID. We therefore propose several (types of) cost mod...

This study aims at contributing to a better understanding of business-to-business Electronic Commerce (EC) advantages and determinants of these advantages. A research model was empirically tested on a sample of 143 Canadian companies. Key findings indicate that the most important advantages of EC are increased productivity, increased quality of products and services, competitive advantage, and ...