Mobile e-commerce or M-commerce describes online sales transaction that uses wireless or mobile electronic devices. These wireless devices interact with computer networks that have the ability to conduct online merchandise purchases. The rapid growth of mobile commerce is being driven by number of factors – increasing mobile user base, rapid adoption of online commerce and technological advance...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is a new type of e-commerce that conducts business transactions via mobile devices. Due to its inherent characteristics such as ubiquity, personalisation, flexibility and dissemination, m-commerce promises businesses unprecedented market potential, great productivity and high profitability. Yet, the move to create a wireless version of the internet means a new set o...

Mobile commerce the consumer’s engagement in online transactions with sellers using mobile devices differs from traditional or electronic commerce due to the potential for location-specific real-time transactions and the unique attributes of mobile devices. This paper aims to understand what drives consumers to engage in mobile transactions by viewing m-commerce adoption as a process consisting...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) innovating applications have posed novel, technical, organizational and commercial challenges. This study uses a hypercube model to investigate these innovative changes and focuses on their impacts on E-commerce stakeholders: providers, E-commerce companies, customers, and complementors. The results indicate that mobile commerce (M-commerce) differs substantiall...

Barely before Internet-facilitated e-commerce has begun to take hold, a new wave of technology-driven commerce has startedFmobile (m-) commerce. Fuelled by the increasing saturation of mobile technology, such as phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), m-commerce promises to inject considerable change into the way certain activities are conducted. Equipped with micro-browsers and other mo...

Chile is recognized as the most wired or the most e-Ready country in South America and in the top quartile globally. Chile has the highest penetration of cell phones in South America, yet it has been slow in adopting mobile commerce. In this exploratory research, both electronic and mobile commerce adoption in Chile are studied. The survey questions are developed based on the previous studies o...

E lectronic commerce continues to see phenomenal growth, but so far most e-commerce development involves wired infrastructures. We believe emerging wireless and mobile networks will provide new avenues for growth, creating new opportunities in mobile commerce. The exponential growth of wireless and mobile networks has brought vast changes in mobile devices, middleware development, standards and...

With the growing popularity of mobile commerce (m-commerce), it becomes vital for both researchers and practitioners to understand consumers’ mobile commerce adoption behavior. In this study, we empirically investigate the drivers of consumers’ mobile commerce adoption behavior based on a cost and benefit framework. Based on consumers' browsing and purchase behaviors at the e-commerce site befo...

The emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the introduction of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce. Understanding or constructing a mobile commerce system is an arduous task because the system involves a wide variety of disciplines and technologies. To facilitate understanding and constructing such a system, this article divides a ...

Mobile commerce has been a tremendous success regarding individuals' adoption in many developing countries. This paper discusses the realities of m-commerce and the major differences between mobile commerce and Internet-based e-commerce. Based on this understanding, driving critical factors in the adoption of m-commerce applications and services is being discussed. The e paper focuses on factor...