Background: Due to the increasing expansion of the electronic world in all aspects, e-commerce has found its place alongside traditional transactions and in turn are of particular importance and have left a significant share in commercial contracts. This has led to significant ethical challenges. E-commerce, due to the lack of necessary legal and legal grounds, lack of proper mechanism to prote...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

This paper presents the findings from the first stage of a preliminary study which assessed the potential for an electronic commerce portal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province. Sri Lanka is an island state of contrasts in terms of its electronic commerce and overall ICT capability. In the Capital of Colombo, ICT and electronic commerce capability are relatively sophisticated while in regional Sri L...

1 What will the future electronic commerce infrastructure look like? Will the intermediaries have a dominant role, or firms will link directly to their partners, or these two types of infrastructure will co-exist? This paper develops a formal gametheoretic model, adopting a two-sided networks framework, and characterizes the ecommerce infrastructure equilibrium under a variety of conditions. It...

Based on the Electronic Commerce Enquête 97/98, one of the largest empirical investigations on business-tobusiness electronic commerce issues in the German-speaking world (n>900), companies’ perception of risk factors in electronic commerce is revealed using multivariate statistical procedures. As a contribution to the field this paper presents the integral relationships and the importance of t...