This paper attempts to highlight a framework for the adoption of electronic commerce (EC) technologies in New Zealand with specific interest in the small to medium-size enterprise (SME) sector of the economy. The main thrust of the research was to develop the framework for EC adoption by the New Zealand SMEs and hence study the accelerators and impediments to the adoption and diffusion of EC te...

Electronic Commerce (EC) has changed and is still changing the way business is conducted around the world. The commercialization of the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) has driven EC to become one of the most promising channels for inter-organizational business processes. Despite the economic downturn and the burst of the “dot-com” bubble, EC is expected to continue its significant growth. EC ...

Faced with the rapid development of electronic commerce in Mexico and in many parts of the world, it becomes increasingly necessary to rely on theoretical-empirical studies that include both qualitative and quantitative analysis, to help us understand the many faces of electronic trading activity. As SME’s are playing a very important role in the world economy, this research is aimed to analyze...

This study surveys the perceptions and experiences of Australian smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the adoption of Internet-based Electronic Commerce (EC). This paper proposes a framework of EC adoption for SMEs. With a sample of 115 small businesses in Australia, preliminary results show that respondents’ perception of Internet-based EC are pre-dominantly positive. However, a further...

Web sites are being widely deployed commercially. As the widespread use and dependency on Web technology increases, so does the need to assess factors associated with Web site success. The objective is to explore these factors in the context of electronic commerce (EC). The research framework was derived from information systems and marketing literature. Webmasters from Fortune 1000 companies w...

In this contribution we propose to apply the theory of informational added values (IAV) on electronic commerce (EC) and mobile commerce (MC). We state that for the success of electronic and mobile offers it is not sufficient to merely make a conventional offer available with new media. Instead, the use of electronic and mobile communication technology is only remunerative if it results in obtai...

from the very beginning of the attempts made to organize electronic commerce in international field, the most important subject has been classification of electronic commerce under any legal systems of the organization, i.e. gatt, gats, trips or a combination of the provisions of the gatt and gats. the hybrid and trips systems did not have the required capacity for the subject matter both theor...

Electronic Commerce (EC) is a rapidly growing research and development area of very high practical relevance. A major challenge in successfully designing EC applications is to identify existing building-block technologies and integrate them into a common application framework. We argue that workflow management technology should be a key building block for EC applications. Workflow technology ai...

This research attempted to investigate the significance of an electronic commerce (EC) use model in small enterprises (SMEs) in New Zealand. The research model hypothesised ten factors as influencing the extent of EC usage significantly in SMEs. The research findings indicated that: relative advantage, cost, compatibility, size, information intensity of product, competition, pressure from suppl...