Why are some countries successful with e-commerce while others flounder? The purpose of this article is to study the impact of technology, cultural, and socio-economic factors on the global diffusion of e-commerce. While past studies have focused on technology reasons alone, this research includes cultural and socio-economic factors as well. Having access to the Internet does not necessarily tr...

This research focuses on user’s perceptions of M-commerce. It investigates issues that are related to M-commerce successful implementation, such as integrating the function of business intelligence and information system management to M-commerce, applying businesses process management to M-commerce, and solving the security and privacy issues in which could impede M-commerce. This paper develop...

This paper defines the concept of regional e-commerce by analyzing the literature. According to the definition, this paper extracted the core indicators of regional e-commerce development, and used the principal component analysis to evaluate the development level of regional e-commerce. Finally, this paper analyzes the impact factors of regional e-commerce development from qualitative and quan...

This article elaborates and extends several new concepts that lay the foundation for thinking about next-generation commerce—so-called ultimate commerce, or simply u-commerce. U-commerce extends traditional commerce to a world of ubiquitous networks and universal devices, a world in which users can access networks at any time from any place, using a range of devices to invoke unique and persona...

This research was designed to theoretically address and empirically examine research issues related to customer’s satisfaction with social commerce. To investigate these research issues, data were collected using a written survey as part of a free simulation experiment. In this experiment, 136 participants were asked to evaluate two social commerce websites using an instrument designed to measu...

U-commerce represents “anytime, anywhere” commerce. U-commerce can provide a high level of personalization, which can bring significant benefits to customers. However, customers’ privacy is a major concern and obstacle to the adoption of u-commerce. As customers’ intention to adopt u-commerce is based on the aggregate effect of perceived benefits and risk exposure (e.g., privacy concerns), this...

E-commerce success is an issue that has attracted the interest of many pundits. There is a general scarcity of models and frameworks for evaluating e-commerce success. Whether traditional information systems success models can be extended to investigating e-commerce success is yet to be investigated. This paper proposes a partial extension and respecification of the Delone and Maclean model of ...

The credit system is not perfect in E-commerce; lead to a lot of credit risk in E-commerce transaction, the rapid development of electronic commerce was been restrained. Application of system dynamics theory and the computer simulation, it has carried on the modeling of electronic commerce credit system composition, forming factors and the relationship. It carries on the quantitative analysis o...

Social media has not only reshaped the way people make decisions, but also changed the norms of how people interact with others. Due to the popularity of social media, social commerce is becoming a new form of e-commerce approaches. This study attempts to investigate what motivates individuals’ use of social commerce in the context of grocery retailing service based on the theoretical framework...

E-commerce is undergoing an evolution through the adoption of Web 2.0 capabilities to enhance customer participation and achieve greater economic value. This new phenomenon is commonly referred to as social commerce, however it has not yet been fully understood. In addition to the lack of a stable and agreed-upon definition, there is little research on social commerce and no significant researc...