ANDREW B. WHINSTON is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair Professor in Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He isaprotessor in the Departments of Economics and Computer Science as well, and Fellow of the IC* Institute, Austin, and the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, for several years a pioneering research facili...

Business-to-Business(B2B) ecommerce has been in existence ever since GM introduced Electronic Data Interchange in the 1980’s as a technology to do business with its suppliers (Premkumar, 2003). The utilization of the Internet for business paved the way for web-based B2B. The arena in which B2B commerce takes place is called an Electronic Marketplace (EM). B2B is a more significant component of ...

The primary difference between mobile commerce (m-Commerce) and electronic commerce is its use in various contexts. Electronic commerce is mostly used in the predetermined environment of the Internet. Delivering relevant things to the right people at the right time in the right way becomes a key issue for m-Commerce: user information and context information are critical to the success of m-Comm...

The potential of internet has been expanded rapidly toward using e-commerce in many countries. Ecommerce has become popular as many people come to understand its convenience and its quick respond to requests and as more products and services become available. This inductive interview-based study aims at identifying and assessing the significant barriers in business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic ...

the growth and the expansion of the internet and the world wide web continue to impact society in new and amazing ways. the role of economic commerce has not been as dynamic as some predicted, but has still demonstrated remarkable success and tremendous potential. any failure to meet some of the expectations may be explained in large part by questions and concerns surrounding existing methods o...

Due to the recent trend in electronic commerce, many companies provide their product related or any usable information on their Web sites for customer convenience. This company information is organized as separate Uniform Resource Locator (URL) pages. Each URL represents a Web document that can be linked to or from other documents via the hyperlinks. How to customize a company’s Web site for it...

Our journal started six years ago in response to the opinions of many researchers around the globe that there was a need of an on-line, peer reviewed, scholarly journal which could address fundamental issues of electronic commerce research and practice. One reason for this opportunity was the rapid evolution of electronic commerce. The continuing changes in the technological innovations on whic...

Electronic commerce refers to all commercial transactions based on the electronic processing and transmission of data, including text, sound and images. This involves transactions over the internet, plus electronic funds transfers and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Onone level, electronic commercebegan in themid-1800s,when thefirst contract was entered into using the telegraph or telephone....

This paper presents a tentative framework for understanding a particular environment of electronic commerce activities the local electronic marketplace. This type of marketplace is Internet-based and dedicated to consumer-oriented commerce. The framework consists of two main components: marketplace functions and marketplace practice. Viewing an electronic marketplace in this way means adopting ...