Because small and medium sized businesses form the basis of the national economy, creating conditions under which they can maintain stable growth in a more competitive environment is a principal challenge for continuous economic growth. Due to a lack of managerial resources in practice, however, they experience difficulties in raising funds and accessing the financial market. On the other hand,...

Firms are increasingly using the Web to conduct inter-organizational business transactions. This type of effort, popularly known as “business-to-business” (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) has caught the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although there is a widespread adoption of B2B applications, there is very little empirical research that has attempted to investigate this phen...

To enable businesses to maximise value and achieve benefits from electronic commerce, it is imperative to identify, analyse and overcome challenges that lie ahead those engaging in conducting the business electronically. The research presented in this paper reports on the pitfalls – challenges of electronic commerce encountered among the top 500 Australian publicly listed companies. The results...

Electronic commerce is causing fundamental changes in the insurance industry. The New Zealand insurance industry is well positioned to benefit from electronic commerce due to the high level of online access technology, high Internet usage, the high number of websites and the fact that New Zealanders are usually quick to embrace new technology. However, despite the emergence of e-commerce in the...

Studies of the diffusion of innovation have covered a wide range of industry sectors and information system types over recent years. As Electronic Commerce grows in importance, however, it becomes increasingly urgent to understand how the innovations of technology and business processes which E-Commerce involves can be explained and understood in terms of their potential for innovation and for ...

Background: Despite the irreplaceable role of cyberspace in the behaviors of modern society and the importance of observing ethics in it, so far no research has been presented to build a model of practical ethics in this space. The present study examines how ethical laws are enacted in cyberspace. Conclusion: By descriptive analysis of the concept of ethics in cyberspace, the perception is tha...

The use of electronic commerce in international business transactions has yet to be studied extensively. Compared to nationally-based electronic commerce, very few authors have empirically studied the extent of international electronic commerce. The objective of this paper is to develop a better and fuller understanding of the usage of electronic commerce among the numerous parties involved in ...

Electronic Commerce (e-commerce) assists organizations to conduct business electronically. This innovation has proved to be one of many significant operational and strategic tools that bring various benefits to business. Many developed countries have actively applied e-commerce successfully since long time ago. In fact e-commerce has become an integral part in many western organizations. Howeve...

With the development of electronic information technique, electronic ecommerce grows rapidly, including B2C electronic commerce company. The evaluation of customer value in B2C electronic commerce company is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with many quantitative and qualitative attributes. This paper proposes fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) approach to evaluate cust...