the rapid growth of world wide web has affected the nature of interactions between customers and companies enormously. one significant consequence of this phenomenon is definitely the emergence and development of e-commerce websites and online stores all over the web. in spite of its great benefits, online shopping could turn into a complicated procedure from the customer point of view. in most...

Museum stores represent integral parts of the museums that have also a lot to benefit from a successful presence on the web arena. In addition to traditional web sites, carefully designed electronic commerce (e-commerce) sites may increase the potential of museum stores offering possibilities for on-line shopping and other commercial functions. In parallel, the recent convergence of the traditi...

We present a cryptographic protocol for securing electronic commerce over the Internet. The protocol reeects existing transaction models in two respects: (1) it uses only traditional parties to complete a nancial transaction and so the transaction cost is kept low; and (2) it preserves some important features of the conventional transaction systems, which have been the key elements for the conv...

Systems for information commerce on the WWW have to support flexible business models if they should be able to cover a wide range of requirements imposed by the different types of information businesses. This leads to non-trivial functional and security requirements both on the provider and consumer side, for which we introduce an architecture and a system implementation, webXice. We focus on t...

In the last decade, electronic commerce has significantly contributed to national economic growth. This is evident in that “according to Forrester Research, the United States (US) online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012”. (Source: http://www.sescommerce.com/ecommerce-growth.asp; accessed 9 May 2009) And yet, although the electronic commerce ma...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to have a profound effect on the economies and societies where they are used. In this article, we propose three related theories to describe the underlying mechanism for growth in e-commerce revenues at the national level. Endogenous growth theory posits that the primary drivers of e-commerce growth are internal to a country. Exogenous ...

Purpose – To provide a social-theoretic framework which explains how e-commerce affects social conditions, such as availability of information and equality of access to information, influences actors’ behavior, shapes e-commerce business models, and in turn impacts industry structure. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical investigation based on one-hour interviews with owners/managers of nine...

Online computations are getting more and more embedded into the daily life of people, in particular, they have practical applications in electronic commerce. In the cyber world, mobile codes interact with each other and their environment on behalf of sellers and buyers of the real world. Mobile code technologies provide potential benefits to applications, but as the responsibilities and the com...