Consumers are increasingly shifting their purchase patterns from in-store to online. Consequently, retailers have had go online remain competitive. Research pundits argued the success of going lies in website's ability create and maintain relationships with customers. This research aimed at investigating relationship development process perspective merchants point out independent variables that...

The ecommerce environment is fairly new, and several risks associated with it are novel to consumers. Consequently, e-consumers may not have developed an appropriate mental picture (i.e., a schema or a perceptual map) of these risks. For example, identity theft, a serious risk that became prominent after ecommerce has become popular, is still not well understood by most consumers. Thus, it is n...

Information service business becomes the predominant industry in 21st century, and eCommerce which has become the focus that all countries and large corporation compete for is being improved and perfected ceaselessly. Since China is very different from the west in social structure and culture characteristic, B2B develops slowly in China [1,2]. In order to extend ecommerce more smoothly and succ...

abstract: this paper investigates the factors accelerating smes' adoption of e-commerce. initially we proposed a model that included three categories of factors including external environmental factors, internal environmental factors and technology specifications. in addition, we proposed ecommerce adoption stages in two levels of early adoption and institutionalization. based on surveying...

Business-to-business is the most important area in ECommerce. With the growth of this area, the importance of multimedia transfers increases as the business partners want to actually see each other during negotiations. In this paper, we will present an architecture that provides confidential multimedia transfers in the Internet, i.e. the transmitted data is protected against espionage from thir...

This paper presents a research model, which is built on communication theory (Shannon and Weaver 1948) and DeLone and McLean’s (1992, 2003) information system model, to identify eCommerce website success dimensions. The research model is aiming to make a contribution to literature by identifying and incorporating dimensions of success relevant to eCommerce websites. Further empirical research i...

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Many businesses have been positively impacted by electronic commerce (ecommerce). It has enabled enterprises and consumers transact business digitally experience diversity as long the internet is accessible there a gadget to surf internet. Several governments gradually adopted payment throughout country. The Nigerian government also done lot of prodding toward adoption cashless economy, which i...

Empirical research in the field of electronic commerce has been growing fast due to the availability of rich, high-quality data. Ecommerce data originates from many different behavioral, social, or economic processes and interactions online which have not been observable and measurable in the offline world. This data-rich environment allows for the questioning of existing theories and the uncov...