While e-commerce is sprouting radical changes in intra-organizational structures and inter-organizational relationships, the underlying principles turn out to be less than novel. Rather, they reflect a revival of traditional values that prevailed well before the advent of mass production. From a customer's perspective, most “new” business models in the Information Age are indeed old wine in new...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

In order to meet the quality of service demanded by a growing number of online customers, e-commerce services need to use scalability techniques. This paper introduces the concept of e-commerce representatives, a means of scaling the performance of e-commerce services. Erepresentatives are programs that execute on a cache server or at nearby machines. E-representatives can be implemented using ...

The object of this article is to present the most cited maturity models and the organizational evolutions, instigated mainly by Internet and electronic commerce. We will observe with these theories, how companies become progressively more flexible, more externalized, less centralized within a network, due to e-commerce. Keywords— Internet, e-commerce , maturity stages, integration, new organiza...

It is apparent that m-commerce and e-commerce have various similarities from operational and services perspectives. However, at the same time, m-commerce has its own a unique technology driven business opportunities with its own unique characteristics, functions, opportunities and challenges. One successful application in e-commerce is personalized recommendations services as results of recomme...

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has injected new vitality and productivity to e-commerce. But it also brought the lag problem of cross-border logistics and distribution system. Under current models of logistics and distribution, the order cycle is too long to be efficient which coexist with high cost, uncontrollable risks and complicated procedure. These factors have hindered t...

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...

New e-commerce business models attempt to exploit information technology to overcome the limitations of traditional business models and to lower costs by improving the efficiency of business processes. A basic requirement for their success is security mechanisms against theft or other fraud. The overall security assessment of business models is complicated, however, since the simple customer-ve...