Policy concerns arise as e-business activities become increasingly common. This paper discusses important elements of such concerns, particularly the proand anti-competitive assessment of online business-to-business (B2B) exchanges. The definition of markets, the role of quality management and communication, and joint purchasing implications within such environments are related to food distribu...

Situation awareness (SA) has long been recognized as a key to success in military command and control, in emergency situations, air traffic control, and medicine. While there are many definitions of SA, Endsley's definition is widely accepted [1]: The perception of elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their stat...

Prior research has found that customers prefer retailing websites that offer online bargaining service. Online bargaining indeed is an attractive field in today’s e-commerce. However, as compared to online auction, it has been much underdeveloped. A few online bargaining systems have been proposed but their bargaining strategies do not react to the change of market situation. In a typical barga...

The purpose of this research is to further the knowledge required for building electronic commerce s stems that operate in multiple languages in global settings. The issues in multilingual electronic commerce are presented in two parts. First we describe a bilingual electronic catalog that can be used by online retailers for selling products and/or services to customers interacting in either En...

Retailers in Saudi Arabia have been reserved in their adoption of electronically delivered aspects of their business. This paper reports research that identifies and explores key issues to enhance the diffusion of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. Despite the fact that Saudi Arabia has the largest and fastest growth of ICT marketplaces in the Arab region, e-commerce activities are not progressi...

Although there has been a great deal of research on impression formation, little application of that research has been made to electronic commerce. A research model was constructed that hypothesized errors, poor style, and incompleteness to be inversely related to the users’ level of perceived quality of an online store. Further, this perceived quality of the online store’s Web site would be di...

This paper analyses consumer attitudes towards Internet-based e-shopping. It aims to provide a theoretically and empirically grounded initial reference position, against which later research can explore and interpret the effects of changes in variables representing consumer preferences and shifts in these preferences on the success or failure of B2C e-commerce over the Internet. Because of the ...

In the emerging field of E-Commerce we show the great potential interest to create 3D virtual shopping centers. The study of a specific application: the creation of an electric household applicants warehouse enables us to highlight the possibilities of the VRML2.0 language to model, visualize and to do interactive walking inside the warehouse. Key features of VRML 2.0 are underlined and new ext...

A study is proposed to test the effects of temporal proximity between the encounter of a stimulus and the receipt of the product on impulsive online buying behavior. In traditional retail settings, temporal proximity between exposure to a stimulus and receipt of the product is an important factor influencing impulsive buying behavior. In most online shopping situations however, there is a time ...

Online shopping often requires consumers to choose among multiple products without detailed information about the quality. Herding is common in situations where consumers infer product quality from other consumers’ choices and incorporate that information into their own decision-making process. The Internet affects the herding phenomenon in two ways. On the one hand, it provides more informatio...