Electronic commerce is playing a more and more important role in today’s commercial activities. In this chapter, the authors propose a kind of new electronic commerce architecture in the cloud and give two kinds of new electronic commerce models. This chapter opens the discussion of why we need to design a new architecture in the cloud environment. Firstly, the authors have a discussion about t...

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 $...

This study surveys the receptivity of Singaporean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the adoption of electronic commerce. Utilising a portion of Rogers' model of innovation diffusion as the framework and treating electronic commerce (EC) as a form of new innovation, we analyse factors affecting EC diffusion. A multiple regression analysis is carried out, with the five attributes of in...

Decentralized XML databases are often used in Electronic Commerce (EC) business models such as e-brokers on the Web. To flexibly model such applications, we need a modeling language for EC business processes. To this end, we have adopted a query language approach and have designed a query language, called XBML, for decentralized XML databases used in EC businesses. In this paper, we explain and...

The aim of this paper is to use historical insights from modern commerce as entry points to examine the macro-level phenomena associated with electronic commerce (EC). Commerce in its modern form first appeared in early 13 century Italy where conducive political conditions existed. Trade facilitated the exchange of goods, thereby enhancing the efficiency of processes between production and cons...

This paper deals with Electronic Services Delivery, a form of Electronic Commerce in Services Sector. Firstly, it defines Electronic Commerce and Electronic Services Delivery and secondly, it presents the Current State of either both in Slovenia and in the World. The second part of the paper briefly presents the most interesting findings of an electronic Services Delivery and Electronic Commerc...

The development of electronic commerce or electronic business systems (EC/EB systems) is subject to different conditions than the development of conventional software systems. Thus, software development processes which were employed for conventional systems until now must be adapted to these new conditions. EC/EB systems typically have a high degree of interaction, which makes factors like ergo...

The rapid growth of the electronic commerce (EC) sector saw the traditional business models of many large organizations being challenged by internet technology-based dot.com start-ups. One reason that can be identified for this is the inability of the information technology (IT) units of these large organizations to respond in a timely manner to the technological innovation and entrepreneurial ...

The advantages arising from the emergence of electronic commerce (EC) are manifold. From automating inventory replenishment to replacing traditional sales channels with web-based interfaces, the concept of electronic commerce presents a number of research challenges and opportunities. A key prerequisite for leveraging EC applications is a thorough understanding of how customers interact with th...

This study surveys the perceptions and experience of Australian smalland mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) in the adoption and implementation of Internet-based Electronic Commerce. Employing Rogers (1995) model of innovation diffusion as the framework and considering Electronic Commerce (EC) as a form of new innovation, we analyse factors affecting EC implementation success. With a sample of 71 sm...