It is widely believed that B2B e-commerce will help firms in developing countries to reduce cost and to improve their access to global market. Yet, developing countries are still some way from success in their adoption of B2B e-commerce. This paper explores social and cultural perspectives that impact on B2B e-commerce adoption in developing countries. Interviews were conducted with key informa...

development of the e-commerce in manufacturing companies and planning in this area requires knowledge on the factors affecting the decisions made by manufacturing companies to use e-commerce tools. these factors can be divided into two categories: internal and external. the internal factors show the characteristics of domestic firms that will shape their behavior, while the external factors rep...

today, e-commerce has considerable portion in commercial businesses, and it has been developing. one of the most important steps in e-commerce is e-payment that has been done through different tools such as e-banking, and e-cheques. in this type of electronic transactions, there are always different worries both for payers and payees due to untruthfulness. for example, amount modifying, date mo...

iran’s small and medium enterprises (smes) have been widely introduced in the market these days. in the emerging trend of electronic data interchange, iran’s political, economical and social issues have been diverted to a more aggressive approach to the world of e-commerce, that despite the shadowing issues of the past, iran already internalized the promising craft of e-commerce through various...

Electronic Invoicing has attracted a lot of attention by being a cornerstone of the Digital Agenda for Europe, Europe’s 2020 Strategy. This agenda mandates a ‘‘think small first’’ principle in order to enable e-invoicing for companies of any size. The electronic invoice should be exchanged between the ERP systems of business partners. Traditional approaches based on electronic data interchange ...

This paper discusses the application of B2B e-commerce in Australia. It addresses e-procurement facilitated by e-markets as it applied to a large Australian organization. A model to facilitate e-procurement is discussed in detail for the different business applications of the organization. The model was developed to provide guidance to the organization as it moved from traditional purchasing to...

Objectives of the Study This study is aimed to present a clear picture of e-invoicing in China, by introducing the whole related process and work that have been carried out or are going to be done in the recent years. Also, it will explore Chinese individual’s attitude towards B2C e-invoicing and the factors that can affect individual’s intention to adoption. Based on those studies, useful sugg...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

the implementation of inter-organizational systems like business- to- business e-commerce (b2b e-commerce)  is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. companies need to consider their own strengths and weaknesses before making decisions to explore new b2b e-commerce without...