in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

This paper examines the market structure and mechanism of electronic commerce from a microeconomic perspective. There are many similarities between electronic commerce setting and classical competitive market structure. The paper argues that one can attain an equilibrium in an electronic commerce setting in which supply and demand are converged at a level that maximizes firm’s revenue and consu...

The rapid growth of mobile telephony has fueled the expansion of the mo bile Internet as a foundation for mobile commerce. Proponents claim that mobile com merce will surpass electronic commerce in growth and scope, but there is as yet no commonly accepted framework for the study of interface design for mobile commerce. Using Rayport and Jaworski's 7C's?the seven design elements of a customer i...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect bu...

Researchers and industry commentators alike have been both fascinated and perplexed by variations in take-up and usage of m-commerce services in different countries around the world. Our research compares m-commerce usage in the United Kingdom and in Hong Kong, areas with apparently similar mobile telecommunications infrastructures but with markedly different cultural profiles. We find signific...

Companies are not going to invest into the development of innovative applications or services unless these can be charged for appropriately. Thus, the existence of standardized and widely accepted mobile payment procedures is crucial for successful business-to-customer mobile commerce. The acceptance of mobile payment procedures depends on costs, security and convenience issues. For the latter,...