Electronic commerce (e-commerce) applications are developed to allow companies to communicate with their partners, suppliers, and consumers on the internet. The migration from traditional business to e-commerce requires fundamental changes in business operational systems. It is not sufficient to focus on the development of web-based interfaces only. The front-end of a system for e-commerce shou...

Although electronic commerce has been emerged as a global phenomenon, several countries lag behind in terms of Internet and electronic commerce use. Indeed, the vast majority of the world population does not have access to the Internet and lacks the technological skills and the knowledge to do so. The particularities of nontechnologically advanced countries make policy making for electronic com...

Electronic commerce has taken off. Whatever concerns about consumer acceptance there were five years ago have given way to “click and mortar” business models where ecommerce has an established role complementing traditional commerce. The digital publishing market segment, approximately $8 billion today, is expected to reach $70 billion by 2004. A significant portion of the GDPs of the industria...

There are numerous opportunities to apply e-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. E-commerce can support the separate provision and coordination of these elements, or allow them to be bundled by a customer-car...

Many businesses have failed in pure play markets, on-line grocery retailers or e-grocers among them. E-grocers face many problems which the traditional brick and mortar grocery stores do not. This paper compares a success and a failure in the e-grocery business. The subjects of this comparative case study are Webvan, an e-commerce failure, and Peapod an e-commerce success. This report investiga...

Technological advances in the field of Electronic commerce (or e-commerce) and access control have been overwhelming in the present years, conceding the freedom to consumers for accessing and using these services when and where they wish, at times and places that are convenient to them. E-commerce and access control encompasses all business conducted by means of telecommunications and computer ...

Electronic commerce is emerging as one of the main application domains on the Internet and the WWW and promises to change radically the relationship between customers, retailers and service providers. However, for this to happen, electronic commerce must become eeectively a better way of selling goods and services than the traditional channels. This requires a suitable infrastructure for develo...

This paper surveys management and policy issues concerning the development of electronic commerce in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The region has the world’s fastest growth rate of Internet connectivity, and firms in several countries are positioning themselves to quickly take advantage of electronic commerce. Presently, electronic commerce capability is concentrated among export-oriented fir...

Whereas the traditional notion of trust primarily focuses on trust in a trading partner, trust in e-business also incorporates the notion of trust in the infrastructure and the underlying control mechanisms (technology trust), which deals with transaction integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. We argue that value creation in B2B e-commerce is heavily dependent on techn...