To support open and spontaneous electronic commerce, more interoperable electronic commerce systems are needed. This requires more standardized software development methodologies and tools in place of proprietary programming as currently done in most corporations. Towards this end, we advocate the conception of electronic commerce management systems (ECMS). In this paper, we elucidate the chara...

sive development in electronic commerce. The reasons for that are, of course, the Internet and the World Wide Web, which are making electronic commerce much more accessible. They offer easily usable and low cost forms of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce on the basis of the Internet is set to become a very important way of doing business. Forrester (1997) forecasts that businessto-busine...

The purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of rural cooperatives managers in Khouzestan province toward electronic commerce, Iran. The research method was correlative descriptive. The population of this study included rural cooperatives managers in Khuzestan province. The total number of members was 101 people. Due to the limited population, census method was used. Questionnaire relia...

With the development of science and technology, the Internet is growing increasingly popular with the Chinese people. Accompany with the increment of online consumers groups, an increasing number of traditional enterprises have introduced the electronic commerce mode. This paper is intended to make a preliminary analysis of the B2C electronic commerce pattern. At first, it will introduce the co...

In the last decade, electronic commerce has significantly contributed to national economic growth. This is evident in that “according to Forrester Research, the United States (US) online retail reached $175 billion in 2007 and is projected to grow to $335 billion by 2012”. (Source: http://www.sescommerce.com/ecommerce-growth.asp; accessed 9 May 2009) And yet, although the electronic commerce ma...

The use of intelligent software agents in electronic commerce brings along new issues in Civil Law. These new kind of agents will enact declarations of will and agreements on their own, without the individual (human) being aware that contract negotiation has been initiated, or concluded. This will force us in the end to analyze the possibilities of applying the general civil law rules on diverg...

With the development of electronic commerce, the credit problem has become a bottleneck for the development of E-commerce, through analysis of E-commerce credit evaluation factors, using the factor analysis and dynamic adjustment mode, construction of electronic commerce credit evaluation model. Through the experimental simulation, the model can effectively reduce the influence of electronic co...

B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce provides firms with different business value depending on how organizations use the online network. In this paper, we distinguish two different types of B2B e-commerce adoption: basic and collaborative B2B e-commerce. With ‘‘basic B2B e-commerce’’, firms implement the electronic network simply to automate the exchange of commercial documents. In co...

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...