the attempts of globalization in developing countries could be observed in a wide range of areas. objectively speaking, globalization can be of advantage to developed and developing countries provided that the compaines and commodities of those countries can get access to and compete with those of others in international market place as equal partners with fairness in international trade. globa...

The need for small and medium scale enterprises to utilize information and communication technology (ICT) applications to boost their business necessitated this study which bordered on assessing the extent of utilization of e-marketing applications by small and medium enterprises in South Eastern States of Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05...

This year the content industry will converge and engage in interdependent relationships. That is the opinion of the research firm, Outsell, that has elaborated a survey reviewing the trends for digital content in 2002. Experts forecast that as information professionals continue to deploy more and more digital content, they find themselves looking for help from vendors that just haven't arrived....

Due to violent and ferocious competition and global changes of new trends, directions and new ways of doing business, financial institutions grapple with new challenges and opportunities in today business. The advancement in technology, information and communication has forced banks and financial institutions into hard competition.  In this new technology era, people as the customers are t...

The rapid evolution of the Internet as a means of communicating the information has attracted the attention of the advertising and marketing industries which allows a very rapid dispersal of information from the producers to the potential buyers in different parts of the world. Such new terms and concepts have emerged: e-business (electronic business), e-commerce (electronic commerce) and e-mar...

implementing infrastructures of e-marketing has been considered in this study. they are classified into external (related to government) and internal (related to enterprise) categories based on the factors’ level and are classified into strategic and operational categories based on the factors’ nature. 35 factors have been finalized as the basis of the questionnaire. the importance and position...

over the recent years, rapid development of information technology (it) and electronic commerce (e-commerce) has dramatically affected world trade and the way business is conducted. also the benefits of using e-commerce and other internet-based technologies have been well recognized through extensive surveys pointing the dominant role of it in different industries. however, implementation of an...

electronic banking has been around for some time in the form of automatic teller machines and telephone transactions but with the advent of internet, more publicity has been witnessed. this issue of internet has equally given a new look to their transactions and mode of product delivery in banking services for the benefits of both the customers and the banks. the objective of this paper is to f...

The growing importance of B2B e-commerce has seen the need for the development of a model to assist in the choice of e-business models. This paper explores the internal and external factors influencing the choice of e-business models using depth interviews and case studies conducted with Australian agribusiness organisations. Sixteen factors, were identified with only 11 regarded as important t...

today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...