Internet commerce is fundamentally re-shaping the course of businesses. There is tremendous potential for enterprises to harness the power of Internet commerce to improve their productivity and sharpen their competitive edge in both local and international markets. It is therefore of importance that insight be gained into the factors affecting the adoption of the technology. This paper reviews ...

This study is a work in progress that sets out to measure the readiness for e-commerce of an aggressively developing economy in East Africa – Ethiopia – a nation that has a significant historical and geo-political status at the horn in order for it to be able to compete in the global information economy. The paper initially embarks on explaining the distinction among the fundamental concepts of...

E-commerce is a dynamic, quickly changing phenomenon. This implies that e-commerce firms are constantly evolving from one model to another very rapidly. There would be many ways to explain the dynamics of e-commerce models, including economics, configuration, and maturity. This paper presents an economic model to explain the adoption, growth, and withdrawal process of a new business model.

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...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) or e-commerce over mobile devices, has become a major topic of interest for the information systems research community and a key priority for many business organizations. However, m-commerce includes a large range of various services, especially with regard to numerous value-added services. Since Thailand small and medium enterprises have been transformed themselves...

Electronic commerce is reaching a maturity level but still has barriers to overcome. The paper proposes a new model for e-commerce transactions with the aim to resolve problems related to the infrastructure and resources required from customers and enterprises to enter the e-commerce arena as well as trust. The proposed model provides the framework for standardizing issues concerning interactio...

This article provides a broad overview of the likely global/ regional contextual factors and unique national characteristics that influence e-commerce diffusion in Singapore. Our analysis suggests that Singapore is likely to be a very fast adopter of e-commerce applications that have relatively proven business models in other advanced countries. In particular, advanced manufacturing clusters in...

selection of an appropriate set of information system (is) projects is a critical business activity which is very helpful to all organizations. in this paper, after describing real is project selection problem of iran ministry of commerce (moc), we introduce two data envelopment analysis (dea) models. then, we show applicability of introduced models for identifying most efficient is project fro...

Background Advances in wireless technology increase the number of mobile device users and give pace to the rapid development of e-commerce conducted with these devices. The new type of e-commerce transactions, conducted through mobile devices using wireless telecommunications networks and other wired e-commerce technologies, is called mobile commerce (increasingly known as mobile e-commerce or ...

In the literature on mobile commerce service adoption, aggregate diffusion issues or technology issues are usually focused. However, a comparison of the slow adoption of WAP services in Europe with the successful adoption of comparable I-mode services in Japan and technologically simple SMS-based services in Scandinavia, suggests that aggregate and technologybased models are insufficient to exp...