With the development of the electronic commerce, the electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) has become important reference information of the consumer shopping. EWOM has attracted considerable interest from researchers in the past decade. There are plenty of academics who looked into what factors play the important roles in effect of eWOM. In this paper, a research review is conducted and an integrate...

On 23 November 2005 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts. The Convention on e-contracting is the most important and long awaited development in international electronic commerce law. This paper analyses the most important provisions of this convention and its potential impact on global electronic commerce...

As electronic commerce grows, an important socio-economic side effect will be increased competition with the traditional businesses in any given local community. Our research suggests that local merchants typically go online in order to better access distant markets, but are often unprepared to cater to remote customers and hence do not fare well. In this paper, we suggest that it is important ...

This article reviews developments in the growing body of research on electronic commerce from the perspective of economic analysis. Our goals are fourfold. First, we construct a new framework for understanding electronic commerce research. Second, we identify the range of applicable theory and current research in the context of the new conceptual model. Third, we offer an assessment of the stat...

Electronic payment systems have gradually become an important issue nowadays because of the popularity and importance of electronic commerce on the Internet. Security and convenience related topics are the most important issues that concern people. The electronic micropayment is one of the most popular research topics on electronic commerce. Recently, many efficient micropayment schemes, based ...

With the rapid development of internet and emerging of global economic, risk management for enterprise under EC (Electronic Commerce) environments has drawn attentions of many researchers. In this paper, the characteristics of risk for EC enterprise are analyzed. Further, focused on the project organization mode and the uncertain factor of the enterprise under EC, which are main different chara...

Background: Due to the increasing expansion of the electronic world in all aspects, e-commerce has found its place alongside traditional transactions and in turn are of particular importance and have left a significant share in commercial contracts. This has led to significant ethical challenges. E-commerce, due to the lack of necessary legal and legal grounds, lack of proper mechanism to prote...

This paper discusses a small empirical study that investigates the relationship between electronic commerce and a linguistic theory called speech act theory (SAT). The study reveals that electronic data interchange messages and interapplication communication messages have the structurepredieted by SAT. This should encourage information systems (IS} researchers to continue investigating SAT, ISp...

Despite widespread interest, electronic commerce for audio currently still presents a major challenge with regard to aspects such as security, transaction handling, interoperability of devices and services and end user experience. While many component technologies are already available addressing certain aspects of this scenario, a seamless integration of these functionalities into one unified ...