This paper presents a model for designing the pricing policies for the supply chain whose channel is integrated with retail and e-tail. In order to incentive the retailer, the manufacture in the supply chain adopts return policy promising that any unsold product can be returned to the manufacture for a partial refund in the end of the selling season. How can the manufacture coordinate the prici...

Electronic commerce technologies are changing the way that work tasks are conducted and thus has significant implications for the way organisations manage their human resource functions. Although the impact of IT on work and employment has been the subject of research, little attention has been paid to electronic commerce and its effect on work organisation and HR management. This paper examine...

Utility mining, which refers to the discovery of itemsets with utilities higher than a user-specified minimum utility threshold, is an important task and has a wide range of applications, especially in e-commerce. But setting an appropriate minimum utility threshold is a difficult problem. If the minimum threshold is set to low, too many high utility itemsets will be generated and it takes a lo...

This paper presents findings from a study of e-commerce adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. Only tiny number of Saudi commercial organizations, mostly medium and large companies from the manufacturing sector, in involved in e-commerce implementation. The latest report released in 2010 by The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) in Saudi Arabia...

E-Commerce changes the way organizations do business. Recognizing the significance of ECommerce contributions to the nation’s economic growth, the Malaysian government introduced several stimuli to increase the practice of E-Commerce, particularly among SME, as they constituents about 84 percent of the Malaysian business enterprises. This paper looks at several stimulus provided by the Malaysia...