E-commerce is growing rapidly in Brazil, led by informationintensive and transaction-intensive sectors such as finance, manufacturing, and retail/wholesale. However, Brazil’s highly uneven income distribution is a major barrier for B2C diffusion. Government policies have emphasized promotional or enabling initiatives such as e-procurement, tax filings, and providing Internet access to social in...

We developed a model of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce trust and tested it. We expected that two influences: internal (natural propensity to trust [NPT] and perception of web site quality [PWSQ]) and external (other’s trust of buyers/sellers [OTBS] and third party recognition [TPR]) would affect an individual’s trust in C2C e-commerce. However contrary to studies of other types of e-comm...

E-commerce has substantially affected the business world in the recent, and its importance is expected to continue increasing in future. Since implementing B2B e-commerce in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a long-term commitment and such enterprises are more limited in terms of resources than large enterprises, the predicted value of successful implementation is extremely useful in decid...

In the competitive investment environment of B2B E-commerce platform, the first mover has the advantage of network externality while the followers have the advantage of declining IT cost. Aimed to investigate the optimal Information Technology (IT) investment timing strategy under the interplay of network effect and declining IT cost, this paper develops an option game model under the uncertain...

This paper presents findings from a study examining the diffusion and adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Although the country has the largest and fastest growing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the Arab region, growth in e-commerce activities has not progressed at a commensurate rate. In general, Saudi retailers have not kept pace with the global growth of ...

The implementation of businesstobusiness electronic commerce (B2B e-commerce) is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. Thus, for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) to partake in the B2B e-commerce activities, they need to have attained some reasonable level of e-readiness meas...

In light of the new interest in remote application hosting, or application service provision (ASP), this study aims at empirically testing the ASP Intention Model (AIM), by surveying 143 decision makers in organizations. The model, based on institutional theories, reflects factors affecting organizational intention to adopt remote application hosting: perceived business benefits of ASP, perceiv...

The increasing popularity of open standards in B2B e-commerce demands more research on generalized trust. This study investigates how a country’s social trust affects the use of open and closed B2B ecommerce. The analysis based on data from 27 European and related countries shows that social trust in a country promotes the use of open B2B e-commerce, but it impedes the use of closed B2B e-comme...

ECIF (Integrated Forum on Electronic Commerce) is a Korean organization streamlining domestic private sector e-commerce standardization facilitation and promoting domestic/ international discourse for the enhancement of Korea’s e-commerce competitiveness. Herein is presented a summary of the Roadmap for E-Commerce Standardization, a major Forum project since early 2000. First, we overview the b...

Nowadays, social commerce has rapidly expanded to diverse industries. One of the items that has expanded rapidly seems a restaurant type of coupons at a social commerce site, which mainly composes of social commerce items. However, research has been rare conducted concerning restaurant products in a social commerce environment. In this respect, the present study suggests a conceptual research m...