This paper deals with what factors facilitate development of m-commerce. The government support on building mobile infrastructure is proposed as the major factor to facilitate mcommerce success. Scholars agree that the productivity gain and industry competitiveness can be influenced by the characteristics of government IT spending. Could government-initiated infrastructure investment on mobile ...

Electronic commerce and the vast amounts of real-time information available through means of EDI and the Internet are reshaping the way enterprises conduct business. A new computational infrastructure and models are needed for a business to gain a competitive edge through effective use of this information base. In this paper, we develop a model of inter-organizational electronic commerce that e...

1 What will the future electronic commerce infrastructure look like? Will the intermediaries have a dominant role, or firms will link directly to their partners, or these two types of infrastructure will co-exist? This paper develops a formal gametheoretic model, adopting a two-sided networks framework, and characterizes the ecommerce infrastructure equilibrium under a variety of conditions. It...

The lack of structure of information and interaction in current web-based electronic commerce makes partial or full automation infeasible. We describe the rst steps towards an open agent-based market infrastructure, with well-deened information and interaction models allowing agents to locate relevant market participants, exchange interests, and negotiate deals. We also describe an architecture...

Advances in e-commerce have resulted in significant progress towards strategies, requirements, and development of e-commerce applications. However, nearly all e-commerce applications envisioned and developed so far assume fixed or stationary users with wired infrastructure. We envision many new e-commerce applications that will be possible and significantly benefit from emerging wireless and mo...

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...

The practice of E-Commerce has been demonstrated since 1965 when consumers were allowed to withdraw their money from Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) and use credit cards at point of sale terminals for purchasing purposes. E-Commerce is a general term for the conduct of business with the assistance of telecommunications infrastructure, and of tools and services running over that infrastructure....

In recent years, there has been a great deal of debate about whether a large-scale \publickey infrastructure" is needed for electronic commerce and, if so, whether the technical di culty of building and deploying such an infrastructure will impede the growth of electronic commerce. We argue here that much of the controversy is attributable to the fact that the term \public-key infrastructure" h...