Customers in electronic commerce (e-commerce) are shifting more and more from content consumers to content producers. Social media features (like customer reviews) allow and encourage user interaction in online stores. An interesting question is, which social media features are actually provided by online stores to support user interaction. We contribute knowledge to this question, by studying ...

Advances in Internet and network technology and the rapidly growing number of mobile personal devices result in the fast growth of Mobile E-Commerce, M-Commerce. In this paper we view M-Commerce as activity of conducting E-commerce transactions using mobile terminals over a wireless network. A special case of M-commerce are Location Based Services (LBS) where often the actual position of the te...

E-commerce persuasive strategies are more effective when they are personalized. Using a sample size of 251 Amazon shoppers, we studied the effect of the persuasive strategies of the PSD framework on e-commerce customers based on 1) if they often review or rate products after purchase and 2) how long they have been customers of Amazon. Results of our analysis show that for the customers who ofte...

Electronic commerce technologies have many potential applications in the health and human services sector. Implementation of these techniques is growing and assisting the administration and delivery of these services. There are a number of aspects of e-commerce in human services delivery which distinguish it from commercial transactions. This paper discusses factors affecting the development of...

|There has been a tremendous growth in wireless technology in the last decade. This advancement has changed how people do business in Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) environment. For creating a more secure and exible m-commerce infrastructure so as to meet the new demands, we need to leverage new technologies like 3G/UMTS, Bluetooth, EDGE and at the same time utilize the older ones like WAP, GSM, ...

The governments all over the world now pay much more attention to the development of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce is an enormous complicated social engineering. It necessarily needs the powerful prompt of governments. The feasible suggestions about how governments prompt the development of electronic commerce are presented in this paper. First, set laws and regulations system and ma...

The purpose of this research was analyzing attitude of rural cooperatives managers in Khouzestan province toward electronic commerce, Iran. The research method was correlative descriptive. The population of this study included rural cooperatives managers in Khuzestan province. The total number of members was 101 people. Due to the limited population, census method was used. Questionnaire reliab...

The power of Web enablement is that geographical boundaries disappear for an enterprise. Thus, an E-commerce initiative can easily become a global E-commerce initiative. Nevertheless, before conducting E-business globally, Web-enabled enterprises must consider an array of international economic, technological, social, and legal issues, which this article addresses.

With the beginning of the new millennium, Ireland is turning to e-commerce and the new digital economy to take growth and prosperity in the republic to the next level.This paper evaluates the level of readiness for e-commerce activities in Ireland, focusingon the technical, economic and social conditions that play key roles in ensuring theirdevelopment.