Before the emerging of Internet, traditional travel agencies had been an industry that adopted information technology greatly, and common for each travel agency to have Computerized Reservation System to connect with airlines and hotels through dedicated lines. This kind of inter-organizational information system has been adopted for years; while viewing the travel industry as a whole, the chan...

This paper identifies factors affecting the assimilation of electronic commerce in Ghana and the solutions that Ghanaian firms have developed. Drawing from the elements of two electronic commerce readiness frameworks, the study analyzes the readiness of Ghana to support the conduct of electronic commerce at the firm-level. The study covers the government, technology, market and culture readines...

There are numerous opportunities to apply electronic commerce technologies to networking. These include the assembly, pricing, and payments for complementary infrastructure resources, and the selection of and payment for value-added collaboration and information access services. EC can support the separate provision and coordlnation of these elements, or allow them to be bundled by a f'undamcnt...

the critical part for building any software system is its architecture. Architectural design is a design at a higher level of abstraction. A good architecture ensures that software will satisfy its requirement. This paper defines the most important activities of architectural design that used through building any software; also it applies these activities on one type of Electronic Commerce(EC) ...

By secure electronic transaction (SET) protocol, business and customers can construct different electronic commerce models on the Internet. In this paper, we propose a method based on Petri net models and techniques of software engineering to detect unusual electronic commerce transactions. Users can construct all electronic commerce transactions of business and customers by SET. Because of fea...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...

Current electronic commerce recommendation system is designed for single electronic commerce website and current recommendation technologies have obvious deficiencies Centralized recommendation systems can not resolve the contradiction between high recommendation quality and timely response, as well as that between limited recommendation range and ever rich information on the web. Distributed r...

We investigate how electronic commerce (EC) retailers, or e-tailers, manage transaction costs and generate customer value. We integrate information systems and marketing theories in a framework for transaction cost management based on four contingency factors: channel, customer, product and shopping occasion characteristics. We build the framework using archival case studies and validate it wit...

We propose a framework for understanding circumstances under which information technology (IT) innovations for electronic commerce (EC) change firmlevel strategic choices, and the economic forces behind these choices, in Internet market competition. We identify a recurring pattern of intermediation, disintermediation and reintermediation: the “IDR cycle.” With this framework, we explain technol...

Inter-cultural communication apprehension is one of the major factors that may influence the processes of the interorganization collaboration in electronic commerce. It is an obstruction, prohibiting inter-organization collaboration in different ways. If we can manage the inter-cultural communication apprehension properly, we may be able to bring organizations of different cultures together for...