This paper examines the influence of electronic commerce technologies in enabling companies to pursue more collaborative relations with their suppliers. It is shown how electronic commerce is supporting more collaborative relations by describing a number of the key areas of collaboration, where electronic commerce is having a considerable impact. Electronic commerce is radically re-shaping trad...

The work in question here aims to show how contracts are the basis for carrying out electronic commerce or E-commerce, since its rule is also based on Consumer Defense Code (CDC), Law 8.078/90. In addition, it will clarify use obtain any other asset. adhesion contract, focus of our study, a contract carried where only one parties willing assume risk thing, which generally movable good and almos...

Software agents, semi-intelligent autonomous tools, will play an increasing role in electronic commerce applications. In this paper we give an overview of the work conducted at MIT’s Media Laboratory on different types of agents for electronic commerce: from consumer to consumer “smart” classified ads systems, to merchant agents that provide integrative negotiation capabilities; from agents tha...

During recent years, the attention paid to the Internet as a global, open and hypermedia computer-mediated environment has likewise contributed to a rising public awareness about Electronic Commerce. The Institute for Information Management at the University of St. Gallen has initiated a Competence Center for Electronic Markets which focuses on the strategic potential of electronic commerce and...

E lectronic commerce (EC) has many possible definitions [1, 4, 6]; we define it as the use of electronic systems in the exchange of goods/services/information. There are two major divisions of EC on the Internet: consumer-oriented electronic commerce (CEC) and business-to-business oriented electronic commerce (BEC). Of the two, BEC is expected to grow more rapidly—from $114 billion in 1999 to $...

In this paper we extend the generic trust model that was introduced in Tan and Thoen. The model of Tan and Thoen addresses in a generic way the issues related to how to build trust for conducting a first trade transaction in electronic commerce (i.e. a trade transaction in an electronic environment between two possibly international parties who are new to each other or have not conducted trade ...

advancement in e-commerce technologies and emerge of web 2.0 applications developed e-commerce. nowadays, customers are entering new platform, where they are more active than before through participating in business process with the web 2.0 applications. by the impact of the new stream in e-commerce, social commerce, we propose and test an adoption model at the customer level. impact of social ...

For the health care industry, the adoption and implementation of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) systems can lead to many benefits, such as an increased accessibility to providers, reduction in supply chain and inventory costs, and reduced medical errors. However, despite high expectations for realizing the benefits of B2B e-commerce in health care, its adoption rema...

Though many companies are still just beginning to grasp the potential uses and impacts of the Web and e-commerce, advances in technologies and their application continue. These advances often present various managerial and technological issues for individuals, companies, governments, and other entities. One significant area of technological advancement is the development of mobile e-commerce, w...