This paper surveys management and policy issues concerning the development of electronic commerce in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The region has the world’s fastest growth rate of Internet connectivity, and firms in several countries are positioning themselves to quickly take advantage of electronic commerce. Presently, electronic commerce capability is concentrated among export-oriented fir...

Electronic commerce and its related activities over the internet can be the engines that improve domestic economic well-being through liberalization of domestic services, more rapid integration into globalization of production, and leap-frogging of available technology. Electronic commerce integrates the domestic and global markets from its very inception. Negotiating on trade issues related to...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect bu...

With the rapid development of computer technology, especially the rapid development of network technology and the acceleration of global economic integration, electronic commerce has been used more and more widely. This also puts forward a new standard for the enterprise application computer to business activities. On one hand, we should take into account the advanced nature of the electronic c...

Traditional B2C Electronic Commerce architecture instigated using n-Tier Client/Server architecture has continually been sluggish, intricate, and costly. With the advent of Cloud computing environment, the amenities vital for the Electronic Commerce architecture are accomplished by proficient organization, which comprises servers, storage supervision, network skills, and virtualization technolo...

Although electronic commerce has been emerged as a global phenomenon, several countries lag behind in terms of Internet and electronic commerce use. Indeed, the vast majority of the world population does not have access to the Internet and lacks the technological skills and the knowledge to do so. The particularities of nontechnologically advanced countries make policy making for electronic com...

Opportunities coming from electronic commerce provide interesting support options for the agrifood sector. However, due to the product specific information asymmetry in the agrifood sector, the anonymity of the medium creates a lack of trust increasing transaction costs to engage in e-commerce. This paper develops a trust model for electronic commerce in the agrifood industry allowing for the a...

2012 was named as “the first year of Fresh Electronic Commerce” in China. Then the Electronic Commerce of fresh and fresh home delivery obtained rapid development. Although the development speed of fresh home delivery is fast, it still could not meet the demand of Fresh Electronic Commerce. The aim of this paper is to analyze the current situation of development of “the last mile” of Chinese fr...

This paper examines the market structure and mechanism of electronic commerce from a microeconomic perspective. There are many similarities between electronic commerce setting and classical competitive market structure. The paper argues that one can attain an equilibrium in an electronic commerce setting in which supply and demand are converged at a level that maximizes firm’s revenue and consu...