Purpose – To provide a social-theoretic framework which explains how e-commerce affects social conditions, such as availability of information and equality of access to information, influences actors’ behavior, shapes e-commerce business models, and in turn impacts industry structure. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical investigation based on one-hour interviews with owners/managers of nine...

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...

Technologies and approaches in the field of Electronic Commerce are not mature enough in order to allow for their broad successful commercial application. Neither existing, successful approaches that are very much restricted to large companies, specific branches, and business domains, nor approaches just merging new technologies like Internet, WWW, and XML allow for scaling up electronic commer...

Social commerce mediated by social media and social network platforms has led to the development of new business models in e-commerce and digitized the consumer decision journey. Social interaction is considered as a prerequisite for successful social commerce since consumers now expect an interactive and social experience while making purchase decisions. Drawing on word of mouth (WOM) and obse...

Rapid evolution of information technology has contributed to the evolution of more sophisticated Ecommerce system with the better transaction time and protection. The currently used E-commerce models lack in quality properties such as logical security because of their poor designing and to face the highly equipped and trained intruders. This editorial proposed a security framework for small and...

tionships. Whether it is examining the persuasive impact of public service announcements on attitudes and behavior, determining the impact of viewing political debates on political knowledge or voter turnout, or assessing whether success in achieving one’s Internet browsing goals prompts greater interest in e-commerce, communication scholars frequently conduct research to answer questions about...

Trust is one of the most important factors that influence the successful application of network service environments, such as e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and online social networks. Computation models associated with trust and reputation have been paid special attention in both computer societies and service science in recent years. In this paper, a dynamical computation model of repu...

The work in question here aims to show how contracts are the basis for carrying out electronic commerce or E-commerce, since its rule is also based on Consumer Defense Code (CDC), Law 8.078/90. In addition, it will clarify use obtain any other asset. adhesion contract, focus of our study, a contract carried where only one parties willing assume risk thing, which generally movable good and almos...

E-commerce offers opportunities to change the way of doing business. However fully utilizing these opportunities and overcoming the bottlenecks, requires more than just getting online. The currently low Internet trade volumes confirm this. This paper gives a snapshot of opportunities and bottlenecks for e-commerce, regarding the internal organization as well as the organization within a larger ...

The opportunities offered by the Internet have already fuelled immense growth of E-commerce. In recent years, due to the rapid evolution of wireless and mobile communication technologies, mobile commerce becomes another crucial application. In china, the 3G telecommunication era is coming. As to the brilliant prospect for m-commerce, many industries expect to join this arena. The mobile commerc...