Regional economies and communities are facing increasing economic, social and cultural hardship in many parts of the world as economies adjust to the demands of the new orders of commerce and governance. A part of this is the paradox that regional economies and communities can be either enhanced or disadvantaged by information and communication technologies (ICT) products and services. The pote...

This paper presents the state of e-commerce infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The state of e-commerce is comprised of factors not only technological, but also economic, social, commercial, legal, and regulatory. Based on the assessment of its current state, an attempt is made at projecting the future prospects for e-commerce in the GMS. E-commerce in the GMS countries is min...

There is importance and timeliness in the issue of Internet taxation. Internet commerce is growing exponentially. With this growth comes the potential for tremendous tax revenue, as well as criticism for receiving an unfair tax advantage. One of the benefits of the Internet is its lack of national and geographical boundaries. However, this lack of boundaries makes taxation and regulation of the...

The persuasive design of e-commerce websites has been shown to support people with online purchases. Therefore, it is important to understand how persuasive applications are used and assimilated into e-commerce website designs. This paper demonstrates how the PSD model’s persuasive features could be used to build a bridge supporting the extraction and evaluation of persuasive features in such e...

Kosmix was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2005 by Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan. Initially targeting Deep Web search, in early 2010 Kosmix shifted its main focus to social media, and built a large infrastructure to perform social media analytics, for a variety of real-world applications. In 2011 Kosmix was acquired by Walmart and converted into @WalmartLabs, the advanced research a...

Lack of consumer trust in e-commerce merchants, e-commerce technology, and the social, financial and legal infrastructures of the e-commerce environment, poses a major challenge to the large-scale uptake of business to consumer e-commerce. Most traditional cues for assessing trust in the physical world are not available online. This paper gives an overview of some of the work being done to devi...

Selfie has proliferated in social media and capture the attentions from businesses. Although selfie has been leveraged into social commerce, little literature has understood and explained the effect of selfie. To solve this gap, this paper considers the effect of selfie on the effectiveness of ad endorsers and the moderating role of product type. We interpret selfie as a form of self-disclosure...

This brief research commentary on Westland’s (2010) article in this issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications is intended to add two cautionary notes. He attempts to answer two questions: What is critical mass? And how one can manage a network’s growth to reach that mass? He proposes a model for social networks, and shows how the model might possibly be managed. What needs to be re...

E-Commerce’s virtuality poses questions concerning trust between buyer and seller. Web 2.0 formats have provided new complications for these questions. Companies are creating more social networking sites, experimenting with ways to use such networks for marketing purposes. This paper explores the issue of trust in social networking site transactions vs. those at more established e-commerce site...