This article intends to reflect the need for taking steps to ensure the right operation of any ecommerce platform. The final aim consists not only on describing the different technical options available to build up a secure commerce, but also, on transmitting the importance of giving a sense of security and confidence to our clients. We describe the different options we should take into account...

Most traditional businesses operate in a local or national environment, and therefore, changes in transnational parameters do not affect them in a direct way. Being inherently global in nature, electronic commerce (ecommerce) needs quality and process standards from broader and multiple perspectives. As an effort to expand the utility of ecommerce systems to both businesses and consumers, we pr...

The rapid proliferation of the Internet has allowed many firms to use this new technology to run Web-based electronic stores to expand their markets and to enhance the operational performance. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate why electronic commerce benefits some industries more than others, and what factors affect the impact of using e-Stores on performance in different industries. ...

This paper deals with what factors facilitate development of m-commerce. The government support on building mobile infrastructure is proposed as the major factor to facilitate mcommerce success. Scholars agree that the productivity gain and industry competitiveness can be influenced by the characteristics of government IT spending. Could government-initiated infrastructure investment on mobile ...

First, we analyzed the basic content of e-commerce and e-marketing. Second, we discussed the common characteristics and relationship between them. Third, we gave the definition of e-commerce e-marketing, analyzed the relationship between e-commerce e-marketing and e-commerce, e-marketing, and gave out the implementing process of e-commerce e-marketing. Forth, we gave out the developing model of...

studying the effects of b2b e-commerce adoption on the smes process and structure is crucial for businesses. extant researches have investigated the impacts of adopting e-commerce and provided some findings, but the varied theoretical approaches have produced results that reflect the impacts of either external or internal factors of adopting e-commerce. however, these approaches did not use a c...

The advent of frontier technologies such as wireless technology has given the necessary impetus for businesses to transform from traditional ways into digital ways. While the Internet transformed traditional businesses to e-businesses, wireless technology enabled to move further to mobile business or m-business. Despite the development in the technical domain, businesses still struggle to compr...

The process of building consumer trust in e-Commerce is based on the presence of trust features or trust attributes in the websites. Trust attributes are usually presented to the consumer by some clues on the homepage. For example, the clue ‘contact us’ will be linked to the trust attribute ‘company address’. Consumers may examine e-Commerce websites for the existence of trust attributes. Howev...

Many existing research approaches on business models in e-commerce are on a high and aggregated level. Furthermore, there are few empirical insights into the appropriateness of chosen e-commerce business models. The paper at hand focuses on the empirical analysis of the last mile issue in b2c ecommerce. For this purpose a research framework for e-commerce business models is presented that serve...