The rapid evolution of the Internet as a means of communicating the information has attracted the attention of the advertising and marketing industries which allows a very rapid dispersal of information from the producers to the potential buyers in different parts of the world. Such new terms and concepts have emerged: e-business (electronic business), e-commerce (electronic commerce) and e-mar...

In an e-commerce or e-service environment, workflow involves not only a single organization but also a number of business partners. Workflow interoperability is therefore an important issue for workflow enactment in such an environment. In this paper, we propose the use of workflow views as a fundamental support for workflow inter-operability and for visibility by external parties. We present t...

Adoption of e-procurement systems and the likely benefits that organisations can achieve have been widely discussed. However, what still remains puzzling is the variation in benefits that organisations experience from the adoption of even the same e-procurement system. A few e-commerce scholars applied the factor-based approach to help explain difference in e-procurement benefits, but with limi...

This article provides a broad overview of the likely global/ regional contextual factors and unique national characteristics that influence e-commerce diffusion in Singapore. Our analysis suggests that Singapore is likely to be a very fast adopter of e-commerce applications that have relatively proven business models in other advanced countries. In particular, advanced manufacturing clusters in...

The use of electronic commerce is spreading day to day to reach environments that have been rather unexplored until this moment, such as governments and administrations. More and more, administrations offer on-line services to the citizens of their countries or regions. It is becoming necessary to have a mechanism for the formal definition of these on-line electronic services (or e-services). D...

Abstract: Open networks can be used for many purposes, for example, e-commerce, e-government, and so on. Different from those conventional applications, we consider networked collaborative activities, for example networked research activities. This application might be very useful and research activities could be significantly promoted. However, we must solve many security problems. Among those...

Business to Government (B2G) e-commerce has increased manifold the opportunities available for entrepreneurs for global trade. The entrepreneurs can deal with businesses around the world, evaluate offers, undertake complex negotiations and realize successful deals in the electronic marketplace. In this paper, we demonstrate how the use of transducers can be very effective for generation, negoti...

Web-sites are domain intensive and some important domains are social, cultural, entertainment, e-commerce, e-government, museum, tourism, academic, etc. It is obvious that domains of Web-sites differ significantly, and hence a common yardstick can not be applied to measure quality of all Web-sites. Signore, Loranca et al, Olsina et al, Tripathi & Kumar and others have tried to define quality ch...

with the rapid growth of e-commerce and online consumer shopping trends, the importance of building and maintaining customer loyalty in electronic marketplaces has come into sharper focus in marketing theory and practice. this paper integrates previous research in the field of brand loyalty to present a conceptual framework of “e-loyalty” and its underlying drivers. implications for e-marketing...

E-channel competition is the competition that conventional channels encounter from electronic channels such as the Internet, which have grown significantly in importance within the past decade. E-channel competition threatens the existence of conventional channel intermediaries. This may lead to conflicts that hamper or stifle the development of electronic commerce. On the other hand, e-channel...