There is an absence of research on business-to-business eCommerce in developing countries which covers wide-ranging issues beyond contextual imperatives. This paper analyzes eCommerce adoption by businesses in China from internal, external and contextual perspectives. The contributions of this paper are to extend and adapt the Perceived eReadiness Model [A. Molla, P.S. Licker, eCommerce adoptio...

Realizing that digital technology has become a key factor of economic growth, it is necessary for South East European countries (where Serbia & Montenegro also belong to) to start overcoming numerous e-commerce barriers on their way of integrating into European Union. One of the obstacles they are encountering is the language barrier. The first problem is how to understand the meaning of certai...

Measurements that capture website performance have long enabled businesses to improve strategies and operations. For an eCommerce website, there exists a limited understanding on how performance is measured. Measuring the performance of a website has been proposed in many ways and various contexts over the past decade. The study presented in this article used the owner perspective to theoretica...

This paper uses formal methods to improve the security of the ecommerce system specifications and reduce the number of security threats to the minimum. The result shows the effectiveness of using formal methods for empowering ecommerce security. Z specification language is used to design the e-commerce system & specify security constraints. Besides, Z/EVES formal methods tool is considered for ...

eCommerce can provide competitive advantage both by enhancing efficiency and helping an enterprise differentiate itself in the market. These forms of advantage apply differently according to industry sector and the size of the enterprise. This paper reports a study of one such industry sector, that of small, owner-operated restaurants within the larger hospitality industry. Drawing on two theor...

Intelligent methods are widely applied in business, economical, financial, marketing and security aspects of e-commerce. The visitor is a vital element of eCommerce. Visitors’ sources, data mining methods, types and application of intelligent methods in eCommerce are overviewed in this article. Neural networks application in traffic statistics analysis and marketing strategies development is pr...

This report is the output of a two-month research project commissioned by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) for exploring the factors that may influence eCommerce adoption in the UK, using matched database of business microdata at the Office for National Statistics. The aim of the research was to investigate: • the feasibility of constructing an extensive panel from ONS linked data, • th...