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A micropayment scheme provides an efficient way for electronic payment with small face value. It is suitable for environments that require frequent transactions such as pay-per-view movie, video streaming, etc. Recent researches on micropayment introduce additional properties such as user anonymity and fairness in micropayments. However, existing schemes may lose efficiency while achieving the new...
The Internet has change traditional firms' operation management and business model, which makes Porter's traditional value chain need to be improved. In this paper, we consider virtual value chain to be a new tool for analyzing and creating competitive advantages in the context of e-commerce. In this study, the shortages of traditional physical value chain (PVC) based on marketplace were discussed,...
Despite substantial discussion of the impact of B2B e-business on organizational performance, there is an absence of a theoretical study on the development of e-business systems capability. The purpose of this research is to addresses this void in the IS literature by proposing a new concept-application capability of e-business (ACEB) based on the resource-based view and IT process-oriented approach...
B2B electronic business has provided a means for many traditional manufacturing firms to improve interfirm cooperation, coordination and collaboration between supply chain partners. However, a number of technological and managerial capabilities related to the building and use of B2B e-business systems, which we called "application capability of e-business", are needed to achieve this potential...
Electronic auction allows bidders to bid for diverse sold objects under an electronic platform via Internet. Recently, Liaw et al. proposed an electronic online bidding auction protocol with both security and efficiency. However, we find some controversies in Liaw et al.'s scheme and then a new electronic auction protocol will be proposed to solve these controversies in this paper. In the proposed...
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