With the implementation of the modernization of Xinjiang comprehensively promote a new round of western development strategy, improve of the network infrastructure , more and more companies start to involved in e-commerce, e-commerce has become an important means of enterprise business activities. But due to the limitations of the objective and subjective reasons, Xinjiang enterprise e-business...

Since mass customization becomes more and more important as a marketing strategy, companies have to produce highly specialized and individualized products. To satisfy these customer demands manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers build networks and connect their application systems. For this e-commerce techniques are a considerable asset to speed up the inter-company coordination process. In th...

This paper integrates and extends research on e-commerce in the developing world. We use three categories of feedback systems–economic, sociopolitical and cognitive—to offer a simple model of e-commerce barriers in the developing world. We also examine characteristics of e-business models that can be successfully employed in developing countries. Then, we provide the case of an e-business model...

Software agents have become very popular in the last few years. They have been used successfully to perform quite a diverse range of applications. In this paper we present a model for agents as mediators in e-commerce, which highlights how far technology can be used to automate e-business transactions.

The growing importance of electronic commerce has resulted in the birth of a plethora of different and incompatible payment systems. For business application writers this implies the need to understand the details of different mechanisms, to adapt the code as soon new payment schemes arrive and also to provide a way of finding a common mechanism for every transaction. In our work, we unify the ...

This paper explores the use of e-commerce in the distribution channel of the wine industry with an emphasis on the North American market. After achieving early attention from e-commerce pioneers, a number of initiatives to sell wine online have failed dramatically – their business models were not commercially viable – and significant investments have been lost in the process. In this paper, we ...

The Business Software Alliance and their counterparts in the global market are determined to make significant progress in curbing the Software Piracy globally. Their aggressive pursuit in their endeavor has produced results in bringing down the piracy rate. However, despite the highly net-ready Chile being part of the Latin American region still leads in the software piracy rate. In this study,...

We demonstrate a set of tools to design and test business models for new IT. These models can be used to design business processes and specify use cases for IT systems.

Transformational initiatives concerning electronic forms of governance occur increasingly often in our time. However most of them are characterised by lack of deeper understanding of the dynamics and possibilities of organizational and technological change in governmental settings. This paper endeavours an investigation of the undercurrent processes of organizational and technological change in...