A b s t r a c t The travel industry, one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the world, appears particularly interesting in terms of the possibilities offered by electronic commerce. It is one of the industries where business is already conducted successfully on the Internet and where the importance of electronic commerce is likely to grow. In order to investigate the opportunities...

ANDREW B. WHINSTON is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair Professor in Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He isaprotessor in the Departments of Economics and Computer Science as well, and Fellow of the IC* Institute, Austin, and the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, for several years a pioneering research facili...

transportation industry is the most dynamic components of any society. in the twenty-first century, with the growth of technology and the widespread use of the internet and the emergence of e-commerce and e-business interaction and active transportation industry deserves to have a wide range of electronic services to the transportation community to take advantage of the investors of the new and...

Electronic negotiations can range from simple offer exchanges to complex communicative acts concerning packages of products and services. In contrast to dominant approaches aiming at automating the negotiation process (e.g. auction models), we introduce the notion of negotiation support for human negotiators conducting complex electronic negotiations. The negotiation support system Negoisst for...

Electronic commerce refers to all commercial transactions based on the electronic processing and transmission of data, including text, sound and images. This involves transactions over the internet, plus electronic funds transfers and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Onone level, electronic commercebegan in themid-1800s,when thefirst contract was entered into using the telegraph or telephone....

The study reported in this paper was undertaken in an attempt to identify and understand the impacts of electronic commerce in the car retail industry in Western Australia. Much of the existing literature in electronic commerce puts forward theoretical models and speculative argumentation in an attempt to describe and understand the electronic commerce phenomenon. In contradistinction to this t...

There has been a rapid growth in electronic commerce worldwide. However, the UK government and other governments had noted that electronic commerce uptake among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has been slow. In this paper we examine the skills and knowledge required for successful electronic commerce projects in the UK SME sector based upon detailed case studies in three SME organisations f...

Electronic Commerce is now seen as the future direction of commerce. Organisations are now developing and implementing a wide range of electronic commerce systems However, before organisations will be able to harness the potential of electronic commerce systems suitably trained people will be required. This paper examines virtual electronic teaching environment: the Deakin Electronic Trading Co...