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This paper studies an online retailing supply chain system in which infomediary provides demand referral service to Internet retailer. We assume that the online demand is affected by retailer price, referral service effort and word-of-mouth. The demand function is developed based on Bass's model. A service cooperation model is established and then the optimal decisions of retailer's price and infomediary's...
With rapid development of internet, more and more consumers choose to shop from different channels, such as offline channel and online channel. Some consumers prefer shopping through offline channel because they want to experience the products' quality in person, while other consumers would like to shop online because they care more about the efficiency of shopping. There are several factors that...
Due to the rapid development of information technology, many firms have already or plan to move from traditional service to electronic environment. One of the important factor issues which need to be considered is the user acceptance of e-service technology. In order to evaluate the adoption of web based information technology, it is vital to release the users' needs. Therefore, the diversity of Web...
The purpose of this study focuses on the extent to which the image of Macanese gastronomy tourism and electronic word of mouth influences tourists' intentions, based on samples of those who use the Internet to search for information about Macanese gastronomy. Questionnaires were distributed to visitors to Mainland China by means of the Internet. The findings revealed that electronic word of mouth...
The cause of repetitious failures of IT projects has become a complicated puzzle for the managers, experts, and researchers of the IT field. According to the World Bank reports, only 15% of the IT projects in the Middle East are successful, while 35% are failed and 50% have achieved to just some parts of their predetermined goals. Does the main cause of such a failure have to be searched in the technological...
In recent decades with increasing of global economic competition, small and medium scale industrials (SMEs) have known as an economic growth engine and a tool for employment. Therefore, they have important role in growth and development of countries. In order that these firms can compete in the world and they use the advantages of information technology requires infrastructures which provides electronic...
Electronic business (e-business or ebusiness) is about using internet technologies to provide superior customer service, streamline business processes, increase sales, and reduce costs. In order to promote small farmers' access to the commercialized modern market, Chinese government energetically encourages farmers to develop e-business based on the organization of farmer professional cooperatives...
In recent years, modern logistics develops rapidly as a whole. To the logistics industry in China, compared with the international lack of understanding from the comparison of domestic and international logistics development, Especially in Beijing city logistics domestic only big cities including Shanghai, has some development to develop city logistics city logistics business development of small...
Machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions are rolling out worldwide and across all industries - possibly being a key enabler of applications and services covering a broad range of vertical markets (e.g., health-care, utilities, transport, education-research and development, logistics etc.). M2M - as a part of the Internet of Things (IoT) - is, at the present, one of the main drivers behind the growth in...
The anonymity of the social networking sites makes the spreading of the electronic word of mouth be affected. In this paper, we studied the main effect elements in them, then in this article we do the classification and point out some factors are playing a role through trust based on the ability and goodwill, trust based on the system, trust based on the threat, trust based on the sense of belonging...
E-cash or electronic money which is being used for medium and or micro scale payment has been introduced to ebusiness and e-market places as a substitution for cash since internet based business and marketing have proliferated during recent decays. Although e-cash is successfully being used for medium scale payments in worldwide, but for micro scale payments it hasn't been fortunate. Investigates...
Social networking system is not just for seeking and keeping customers but it has also proven to be a highly effective business tool. On the other hand, E-Tourism marketing and its technology cause the change of power balance between the industries and the service companies by providing better harmony between organizations, practical and easier method of production, less error in input and output...
Social networks have made a significant impact on how today's Internet users communicate, search for and share data. Numerous proposals have been made to improve existing distributed systems by leveraging the inherent trust built into social links. Some researchers believe that augmenting online marketplaces with social networking should improve trust between transaction partners and improve user...
Electronic markets are inter-organizational information systems that allow the buyers and sellers to exchange information about prices and product offerings, and have become the important virtual marketplaces matching transactions which play an increasing role on the physical markets and absorb eyeballs of researchers and practitioners. In this paper, we incorporate the proxies about price dispersion...
This paper focuses on the aspect of virtual community trust, combining the theory of Electronic word-of-mouth and Technology Acceptance Model, to develop a deeper understanding of how virtual communities influence consumer participation in online group-buying, and to extract the key factors that impact consumer willingness to participate in online group-buying. The research involves survey responses...
Some results of researches show that consumers are inclined to reduce perceived risks rather than maximize perceived benefits when they are making purchase decisions. After a mass of questionnaire surveys through the campus students, the effect of Internet factor to perceived risk and perceived risk to purchasing intention were revealed by using structural equation model (SEM) analysis. In the end,...
Employing survey method on internet consumer, this article finds internet consumer's participation, especially behaviorally and affectively, significantly affects electronic service perceived quality. However, personality participation, another important factor, doesn't fit our data set and has no significant impact on perceived quality.
E-government (EG) and e-commerce (EC) are the most important fields of the applications of Information Highway in days of global informationization, so the development in harmony with each other is especially important. This thesis discusses the relations and interactions between E-government & e-commerce from the leading role of E-government and its link with e-commerce.
With the rapid growth of Internet information, the common topic of E-commerce enterprises is how to mine and utilize web information effectively. The paper introduces the categories and major steps of web mining, and discusses the applications of web mining in E-commerce such as marketing on the web, customer relationship management, commodity personalization recommendation, and so on.
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