this study determines the impact of e-commerce (ec) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( tfp) of iran country as a developing country in comparison with us standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. the model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. on the...

Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) is well-accepted in the developed world and is playing a vital role in economic development. The less-developed and developing nations are far behind in this regard, despite of the fact that the governments have had attempted to encourage ECommerce. This paper explores the factors which can act as constraints to the development of E-Commerce in Iran. A qualitati...

The initial hype created by the emergence of mobile computing technologies has slowly given way to a large amount of skepticism. Even though some m-commerce applications have already made their way to the marketplace, experts now predict that it will still be some time before the potential of mcommerce can finally be realized. This pessimism is largely due to the fact that the technologies invo...

Problem definition: The mobile commerce (m-commerce) channel is poised to be the future of online markets. It offers search features distinct from conventional personal computer (PC)-based e-commerce channels. Its easy accessibility extends time available for customers search, although its shopping environment constraints (e.g., small screen size, single-tab browsing) may inflate costs. Collect...

MPEG-M is a suite of ISO/IEC standards (ISO/IEC 23006) that has been developed under the auspices of Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG-M, also known as Multimedia Service Platform Technologies (MSPT), facilitates a collection of multimedia middleware APIs and elementary services as well as service aggregation so that service providers can offer users a plethora of innovative services by...

The authors of this paper compared ratings for leadership competences of managers in the healthcare sector and professional managers in Slovenia. Managers’ competence scores were analyzed for Slovenia and compared with some other EU countries. Comparisons of correlations yielded significant differences in leader/non-leader healthcare professionals in their relational competences. Cross-cultural...