Among one of the most far-reaching influences of the Internet, especially from the perspective of business and market models, is the concept and application of eCommerce. Today, this erstwhile ‘experimental’ commerce model has become a standard platform for streamlining business flows and broadening product outreach. This is validated by the significant emphasis by a number of countries in deve...

2 This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents econometric estimates of the effects of company characteristics and company strategies on the performance of...

This paper presents a survey about Greek and International electronic commerce systems. The survey focuses in specific characteristics aiming to evaluate the quality of e-commerce systems as far as the end user is concerned. This paper provides the set of characteristics used for the evaluation, discusses the evaluation method and the derived results and the presents the basic similarities and ...

Perkembangan ekosistem ecommerce di Indonesia yang pesat menjadi daya tarik bagi pengusaha – startup untuk terus berinovasi mengembangkan businessnya tanah air. Untuk memahami ini, penulis melakukan penelitian bertujuan mengetahui apakah terdapat pengaruh signifikan antara komponen dengan salah satu bisnis ecommerce, yaitu emarketplace. Hasil peneltian menemukan bahwa terdiri dari marketing, co...

Although the hype surrounding the promise of electronic commerce seems all pervasive currently, there is an absence of research on automobile eCommerce, especially in developing countries, which covers wide-ranging issues beyond contextual imperatives. This paper tries to fill in the gap, by analyzing the impacts of eCommerce on automobile industry in China, and the factors of eCommerce adoptio...

The eCommerce domain needs more and more automation, speed and security for its customers. That’s why the number of B2B applications handling electronic contracts and digital signatures is still increasing. These ones are based on certificates and use secure communication protocols. Nevertheless most of them don’t take into account negotiation regarding to contracts clauses and arbitration of p...

Ecommerce has been readily adopted in more developed countries, but is still lagging in less developed nations. In this work, we synthesize lessons learned from economies that have already adopted ecommerce, and propose strategies that can be used to promote ecommerce adoption. We propose a comprehensive framework that simultaneously examines the importance of culture, policy and technology in ...