Electronic Commerce Research

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Editorial: I have an avatar therefore I exist

Savvas Papagiannidis, Michael Bourlakis, Feng Li

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 1-2

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Virtual item purchase behavior in virtual worlds: an exploratory investigation

Yue Guo, Stuart Barnes

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 77-96

Virtual worlds, such as Second Life, World of Warcraft and Everquest, have demonstrated huge economic potential. In such virtual worlds, virtual items are bought and sold between individuals for real money. However, little empirical research has been conducted into players’ purchase behavior in virtual worlds. To help us gain a better understanding of factors influencing purchase behavior in virtual...

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Online gaming: a scoping study of massively multi-player online role playing games

Alex Meredith, Zaheer Hussain, Mark D. Griffiths

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 3-26

The popularity of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) has risen greatly over the last few years. To date there has been very little published academic research concerning online gaming and even less on the different types of online games that exist. Given the lack of data, a scoping study was undertaken to examine the extent, range and nature of different MMORPGs. Data were collected...

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Virtual item sales as a revenue model: identifying attributes that drive purchase decisions

Vili Lehdonvirta

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 97-113

The global market for virtual items, characters and currencies was estimated to exceed 2.1 Billion USD in 2007. Selling virtual goods for real money is an increasingly common revenue model not only for online games and virtual worlds, but for social networking sites and other mainstream online services as well. What drives consumer spending on virtual items is an increasingly relevant question, but...

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Retail spatial evolution: paving the way from traditional to metaverse retailing

Michael Bourlakis, Savvas Papagiannidis, Feng Li

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 135-148

This paper examines the evolution of retailing, i.e. from traditional to electronic to metaverse retailing and sheds light on the ways metaverses influence that evolution. The spatial dimension is taken into consideration as retailers could operate simultaneously in three different, but intertwined spaces. Particular emphasis is paid to key promotional aspects and we highlight the key challenges and...

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Beyond e-business models: the road to virtual worlds

Maria Rosita Cagnina, Michele Poian

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 49-75

Virtual Worlds (or, VWs) are an intriguing field of research. In particular, VWs appear to create new opportunities for integrating the business of the firm with Information Technology (or, IT). This article is a first attempt to address the topic of how owning and maintaining a VW can impact on the business models of firms and on the literature on business models, and VWs are examined in order to...

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The development of VAG—a 3D virtual agribusiness environment and strategy game

Kim P. Bryceson

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 27-47

VAG—a prototype animated, interactive, three-dimensional virtual environment model of a supply chain in the agribusiness sector has been developed as a CD-based game of strategy. Users (players) have to both create their supply chain by choosing the components that make it up, and then play the game in the role of the Manager of one of the components in it: the goal being to maximise the success of...

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If you build it will they come?—An empirical investigation of consumer perceptions and strategy in virtual worlds

Lakshmi Goel, Sonja Prokopec

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 1-2 > 115-134

There is increased interest in, and accelerating technological development of, internet-based persistent three-dimensional (3D) virtual environments. The applications of these ‘virtual worlds’ are growing in the fields of entertainment and information assimilation such as virtual real estate, brand building, and marketing. Such applications could, in time, lead to serious economic and business transformation...

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A framework for evaluating business lead users’ virtual reality innovations in Second Life

Kim Mackenzie, Sherrena Buckby, Helen Irvine

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 3 > 183-202

This paper extends von Hippel’s (Manag. Sci. 32(7):791–805, 1986) concept of lead users to a virtual reality environment. Three lead user groups, site developers, business firms and avatars, have a synergistic role to play in extending virtual reality from a social networking platform to a commercial one. The paper proposes a framework for assessing the extent to which innovative practices have been...

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An adaptive automated method for identity verification with performance guarantees

Hanan Luss, Arnold L. Neidhardt, K. R. Krishnan

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 3 > 225-242

Businesses often rely on customers that access an automated resource to receive information, service or products. We present an adaptive method for automated authentication with performance guarantee of probabilistic error bounds, referred to as identity verification. A database includes a record of identifiers for each identity. The identifiers are partitioned into groups, where identifiers in the...

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Privacy concern and online personalization: The moderating effects of information control and compensation

David G. Taylor, Donna F. Davis, Ravi Jillapalli

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 3 > 203-223

Firms have at their disposal an increasing amount of personal information about consumers gathered through various means. Studies find that personalizing online interactions improves customer relationships and increases desirable behaviors, such as positive word-of-mouth and increased purchase intent. However, other research suggests that the use of personal information stimulates privacy concern,...

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ICT solutions and labor productivity: evidence from firm-level data

Juha-Miikka Nurmilaakso

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 3 > 173-181

This paper analyses the impacts of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions on labor productivity, i.e. revenue per employee. Based on cross-sectional data on 1955 European firms in 2005 and a linear regression model derived from the microeconomic theory of production, the impacts of six common ICT solutions in electronic commerce (e-commerce) cannot be ignored. According to the linear...

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E-auction web assessment model in China

June Lu, Lu-Zhuang Wang, Chun-Sheng Yu, Jia-Ying Wu

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 3 > 149-172

Electronic auction (e-auction), a major e-commerce model, has enjoyed rapid growth in many countries. This study develops a web assessment model (EAWAM) from a consumer perspective that suggests that user intention to continue using an e-auction website is based on users’ satisfaction with the e-auction website, which is determined by perceived e-auction user friendliness, functionality and interactivity...

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IT governance challenges in a large not-for-profit healthcare organization: The role of intranets

Carla L. Wilkin, Jon Riddett

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 4 > 351-374

This paper reports on the implementation of IT governance in a not-for-profit healthcare organization and considers how managerial strategies for this governance relate to the progressive management approach commonly called the Horizontal Organization. Discussion includes how IT governance was implemented and the mechanisms by which power and politics in the organization were harnessed to achieve...

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Title of the special issue: “Topics in e-technology research”

Morad Benyoucef, Peter Kropf

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 4 > 243-244

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A knowledge-based framework for complex, proactive and service-oriented e-negotiation systems

Giannis Koumoutsos, Kleanthis Thramboulidis

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 4 > 317-349

Advances in information technology and knowledge management change the way that e-negotiations, which constitute an important aspect of worldwide e-trading, can be structured and represented. In this paper, a novel approach that focuses on knowledge modeling, formalization, representation and management in the domain of e-negotiation is described. The proposed approach exploits Ontologies, Service...

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Business process management with the user requirements notation

Alireza Pourshahid, Daniel Amyot, Liam Peyton, Sepideh Ghanavati, more

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 4 > 269-316

A number of recent initiatives in both academia and industry have sought to achieve improvements in e-businesses through the utilization of Business Process Management (BPM) methodologies and tools. However there are still some inadequacies that need to be addressed when it comes to achieving alignment between business goals and business processes. The User Requirements Notation (URN), recently standardized...

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Pervaho: A specialized middleware for mobile context-aware applications

Patrick Eugster, Benoît Garbinato, Adrian Holzer

Electronic Commerce Research > 2009 > 9 > 4 > 245-268

The concept of context-awareness offers a great potential for the future of mobile applications. In order to be developed in an optimal way, mobile context-aware applications need appropriate middleware services. This paper introduces Pervaho, an integrated middleware aimed specifically at supporting the development and testing of mobile context-aware applications. To illustrate the use of Pervaho,...

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BUSINESS MODEL (2)
SECOND LIFE (2)
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AGRIBUSINESS (1)
AVATAR (1)
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT (1)
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COMPUTER GAMES EDUCATION (1)
CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR (1)
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DECISION ANALYSIS (1)
DRIVERS OF VALUE (1)
E-AUCTION WAM (1)
E-COMMERCE (1)
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (E-COMMERCE) (1)
FOCUS GROUPS (1)
GOAL-ORIENTED BUSINESS PROCESS MONITORING (1)
HEALTHCARE (1)
HORIZONTAL ORGANIZATION (1)
IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION (1)
IDENTITY VERIFICATION (1)
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IT GOVERNANCE (1)
LABOR PRODUCTIVITY (1)
LEAD USERS (1)
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MARKETING (1)
MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES (1)
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MODEL (1)
NEGOTIATION PROCESS (1)
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ONLINE AUCTION (1)
ONLINE COMMUNITIES (1)
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QUALITATIVE APPROACH (1)
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TAOBAO (1)
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USER REQUIREMENT NOTATION (1)
VIRTUAL CHANNEL STRATEGY (1)
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