Ten years after the fall of Napster, digital piracy remains an issue for e-commerce firms. While scholars treat digital piracy as a behaviour that needs to be prevented or punished, the user’s decision about how to acquire a digital product involves more than the piracy option, yet the decision between piracy and legal alternatives has received limited attention. Moreover, existing models of pi...

E-collaboration goes beyond ordinary buying and selling activities. It includes information sharing and integration, decision-making, as well as process and resource allocation among people and organizations via the Internet, e-mail, web, video, and wireless devices to achieve optimal productivity and high performance. It promotes international commerce, expands trade, and facilitates financial...

Until recently, colonial historiography has primarily examined imperi­ alism from the perspective of Europeans and downplayed the agency and role of indigenous peoples. In Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade, John R. Bockstoce examines the interactions that occurred be­ tween natives of the Bering Strait region and fo...

Electronic commerce presents many opportunities for public and private sectors to capitalise on technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange. EDI allows improvements in business performance and efficiency, in building of new markets and expanding of old ones. However, a significant barrier to the organisational adoption and diffusion of EDI, is the lack of knowledge in the need for adequate...

These days, most of companies expanding their business horizon through dynamic web sites based on Web 2.0 concept. The JavaScript is a key choice of web developers to build sophisticated dynamic web 2.0 application such social network site, blogs, e-commerce websites. On the other hand vulnerable JavaScript code is also exploited by the hackers to launch the attacks. Hacker may tamper the JavaS...

The world of E-commerce is expanding, posing a large arena of products, their descriptions, customer and professional reviews that are pertinent to them. Most of the product attribute extraction techniques in literature work on structured descriptions using several text analysis tools. However, attributes in these descriptions are limited compared to those in customer reviews of a product, wher...

Southern California's gateway to international commerce is through major ports in the San Pedro Bay. The University of Southern California is working with local business and other port stakeholders to enable collaborative learning about sustainable business practices. We are using system dynamics-based models for participants to locate leverage points that yield the highest CO2 footprint reduct...

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) are products that have a short useful lifetime and typically designed for single or limited uses followed by disposal. The disposable nature of FMCGs combined with ineffective waste recovery systems is causing global environmental problems. Various reusable packaging business models emerged to tackle these problems; however, their influence still low in practi...

A Patchouli is a perennial, erect, branched aromatic herb with fragrant leaves grown in tropical and subtropical regions warm humid climate condition. It cultivated mainly for its essential oil which extracted by steam distillation from the tender parts of dried stems using small amount oil. deep orange to amber colour has an exotic, heavy, earthy aroma. The aroma patchouli usually described as...