A relatively recent form of commerce, electronic commerce is increasingly becoming routine. Despite recent years’ turbulence, electronic commerce is on the rise in Canadian commercial landscape. Representing a sales volume of $4.7 billion, about 1.3% of Canadian retail sales, e-commerce is becoming an indispensable tool for retailers Statistics. In total, 67% of Canadian households use the Inte...

The publishing industry like many other industries has not escaped the impact of information technology in both the production and distribution of the information it creates. From earliest DTP techniques to the selling of books over the internet and the publishing of electronic journals the publishing industry has readily accepted technological innovation. Many publishers are now ready to embra...

Electronic commerce is widely expected to promote “friction-free” capitalism, with consumers sending software agents to scour the Net for the best deals. Many distribution chains will indeed be simplified and costs substantially reduced. However, we are also likely to see the creation of artificial barriers in electronic commerce, designed by sellers to extract more value from consumers. Freque...

This paper examines the issue of fraud on the Internet and discusses three areas with significant potential for misleading and fraudulent practices, namely: securities sales and trading; electronic commerce; and the rapid growth of Internet companies. The first section of the paper discusses securities fraud on the Internet. Activities that violate US securities laws are being conducted through...

On the Internet many electronic commerce applications can be used today, but most of them provide only weak security or even none whatsoever. A major cause of this problem is the variety of technologies used to create such applications. Most existing security architectures are not designed to work in different environments. In this paper, we propose a security architecture for generic electroni...

As a first attempt to tax electronic commerce, many countries applied the existing tax laws to Internet. However, applying these laws to border-spanning electronic commerce proved very inefficient and inappropriate. While some authorities claim not taxing the Internet is the best solution for encouraging the growth of electronic commerce, we believe that use and sales taxes in general are an im...

The main purpose of the paper is to explore and discuss the influence of product type on customer interaction in electronic commerce. We have conducted two qualitative case studies in distance selling companies to inductively explore how the product characteristics of garments and music-CDs influence customer interaction. We apply a product classification scheme built on product theory to chara...

The paper comprehensively reviews research conducted on mobile commerce adoption in organizations. From the literature, factors adopted form a number of adoption theories such as the diffusion of innovation theory, the technology acceptance model, etc. are identified, analyzed and tabulated together with a set of research propositions in order to demonstrate areas in need of further research. T...

The Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) is an electronic commerce protocol being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force. IOTP aims at providing an interoperable framework for electronic commerce (ecommerce) over the Internet. IOTP is expected to evolve into one of the central building blocks for the developing of next generation e-commerce on the Internet. The success of electronic ...