The purpose of this paper consists in establishing the model for the supply-demand interaction in the age of electronic commerce. First of all, the study uses the individual objectives of both parties as the foundation of the supply-demand interaction. Subsequently, it divides the interaction, in the age of electronic commerce, into the following two classifications: (i) Market transactions, wi...

The emerging online Business-to-Business (Liu, Sia and Wei) marketplace in China, with major websites such as Alibaba.com and ECVV.com, has presented a huge opportunity for Small-and-Medium Enterprises (Arend) to reach out to an extensive pool of potential corporate customers. This would not have been possible through conventional strategies such as trade fairs and road shows. Despite the avail...

With a major proportion of research on Electronic Commerce (EC) undertaken on large corporations, and focused primarily on developed countries, little is known about the determinants of EC in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) of developing nations. This chapter explores the extent of EC use by SMEs, and provides some empirical evidence of how internal factors of firm and owner are influ...

In today’s e-commerce era, more than ever, we need to equip our students to be independent on-line learners. In this article, we will look into the use of online education as a means of understanding the emerging educational paradigm (from a teacher to a student-focus paradigm). Specifically, the focus is on the secondary school system in which the aim is to comprehend and explore the reasons b...

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Electronic commerce has taken off. Whatever concerns about consumer acceptance there were five years ago have given way to “click and mortar” business models where ecommerce has an established role complementing traditional commerce. The digital publishing market segment, approximately $8 billion today, is expected to reach $70 billion by 2004. A significant portion of the GDPs of the industria...

This paper presents the issues related to the different kinds of Broker Agents for electronic commerce. The specificity of electronic commerce of multimedia products and services is considered, proposing a classification of this kind of systems based on different characteristics and levels of complexity. The classification is also based on previous models (functional and architectural) for elec...

Electronic marketplaces are a popular phenomenon, both for academics and for practitioners. During the last two to four years we have seen several emarketplaces trying to find their niches. One of the most discussed e-marketplace, especially in the business press, is Covisint, the “big” e-marketplace of the car industry. Because Covisint is so well known, it has become an example and a model fo...

The strategic challenge facing Amcbzon.com is that it is not able to convince the investment community that it is able to generate profits in the long run. The doubt of investors is well grounded. This paper argues that Amazon should make a strategic shift to operate as a provider of technical services and business consulting in the area of business-to-consumer e-commerce. At the same time it s...

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...