Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is getting more and more important in people’s every day shopping routines. Vendors who want to establish an online channel besides their traditional retail practice have to integrate the two supply chains. The underlying information technology systems should be able to support the integration of the new and old processes. While reference models are a popular me...

Nowadays, application of e-commerce for companies or economic corporates and also entities and states has changed to an unavoidable issue, seeming necessary to observe its advantages and disadvantages. Due to the performance of processes in virtual or cyber site, e-commerce has been always followed by many worries, challenges and problems for all users including companies, people and states. To...

Electronic Commerce is concerned with conducting business transactions electronically using information and communication technologies. In this globalization era, many organisations in various countries have rapidly adopted e-Commerce to enable efficient trading with other organisations located in various parts of the world. However, e-Commerce adoption is still unilaterally concentrated in dev...

This paper describes the development of a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) for the assessment of risk in E-commerce (EC) development. A Web-based prototype FDSS is suggested to assist EC project managers in identifying potential EC risk factors and the corresponding project risks. A risk analysis model for EC development using a fuzzy set approach is proposed and incorporated into the FDSS....

E-commerce sites currently provide poor access to information and knowledge. Accessibility is a key issue, both for selling individual products and services, and for selling the concept of e-commerce ahead of other modes of commerce. This report uses the concept of Features, Advantages and Benefits (FAB) to define knowledge-level accessibility requirements (KAR). The KAR criteria are applied in...

This paper evaluates recently developed novel and comprehensive reputation metric designed for the distributed multi-agent reputation system for the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce applications. To do that an agent-based simulation framework was implemented which models different types of behaviours in the marketplace. The trustworthiness of different types of providers is investigated to...

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...

Integration and customization are increasingly becoming the dominant trends in the future of electronic commerce (e-commerce). Advances in networking, communications, and distributed computing technologies make it possible to better leverage internal and external competencies. E-business extends the consumer-centric e-commerce realm by including the business-to-business aspect of commerce. This...

This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison of case studies from 10 countries— Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. It finds that B2B e-commerce seems to be driven by global forces, whereas B2C seems to be more of a local ...

E-commerce that has undergone an increasing trend in recent years has been regarded as the modern method for transfer of information and economic exchange.   This phenomenon brings about massive changes in most of relations between various economic institutions. Such changes have also occurred in tax systems. Hence, the present research aims to investigate effect of E-commerce on tax structure ...