On the verge of the Constitutionalist Revolution in Iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the Monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. This rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...

on the verge of the constitutionalist revolution in iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. this rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...

T he interchange fees associated with debit and credit cards have long been a controversial issue in the retail payments system. These fees are paid by a merchant to the cardholder’s bank (the so-called issuer) through the merchant-acquiring bank (the so-called acquirer) when credit or debit card payments are processed. Merchants have criticized that card networks (such as Visa and MasterCard) ...

In the era of Social Web, there has been an explosive growth of user-contributed comments posted to various online social media. However, increasingly more misleading and deceptive user comments found at online social media have also been a great concern for consumers and merchants, and social spam have been brought to the attention by the legal circle in recent years. Social spam can cause tre...

Despite the fast growing economy, the dramatically increasing internet usage and the significant purchase power of Saudi Arabia compared to other countries in the Middle East, the evolution of E-Commerce remains slow and is inconsistent with such growth nor with the growth of ECommerce in developed countries. This paper is conducted for exploration purposes to initially determine the most signi...

Lack of trust has been repeatedly identified as one of the most formidable barriers to people for engaging in e-commerce, involving transactions in which financial and personal information is submitted to merchants via the Internet. The future of e-commerce is tenuous without a general climate of online trust. Building consumer trust on the Internet presents a challenge for online merchants and...

We empirically study a dynamic platform competition in the online daily deals promotion industry characterized by intense rivalry between two leading promotion sites, Groupon and LivingSocial, that broker between local merchants and local consumers. We find that, for a comparable deal, the incumbent Groupon enjoys a significant advantage in performance measured in the number of coupon sales, wh...

The merchant's journey in the marketplace is priority of marketplace. Therefore, it necessary to do research on addition a pick-up schedule feature improve made merchants. A thorough analysis carried out using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method. Respondents' votes were obtained from selected Click & Collect merchants, namely 5 results showed that pick- up really answered needs