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The internet changed the traditional ways of relationship between and the consumers. The company started offering new buying, selling and shipment models to their customers. On a Portuguese context the most seller sector is the holydays and accommodations with 55% of online sales. Through the time evolution new models where investigated to study the service quality, to provide a higher service quality...
The authors describe blockchain’s fundamental concepts, provide perspectives on its challenges and opportunities, and trace its origins from the Bitcoin digital cash system to recent applications.
This paper examine the importance of website quality indicator in e-commerce efficiency evaluation. It applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models and traditional production theory to account for how scale affects efficiency in pure e-commerce firms. The results of DEA models identify website quality, user scale and user experience each contribute to improving operations efficiency, but scale expansion...
Electronic commerce (also known as e-commerce) has experienced a constant growth and development in recent years. Thus, customers and sellers are turning to this type of business in hope that it improves their sales. In order to create such a website, it is important to have proper tools and skills. A person may opt for two options and these are: commercial or open source. The objective of this study...
Supporting adaptation of metamodels is essential for realising Model-Driven Engineering. However, adapting and changing metamodels impact other artefacts of the metamodelling ecosystem. In particular, conformant models will no longer be valid instances of their changed metamodel. This gives rise to co-evolution issues where metamodels and models are no longer synchronised. This is critical as systems...
Augmented reality is becoming the future of e-commerce, throw their mobile devices, customers have access to all kind of information, going from weather, news papers, shops and so on. Today's mobiles devices are so powerful to the point that they can be used as a platform of virtual try-on systems. Over this paper we present a virtual eye glasses try-on system based on augmented reality and LBP for...
In recent years, the Cloud Computing paradigm has proven effective in scaling dynamically the number of servers according to simple performance metrics and the incoming workload. However while some applications are able to scale-out, as current scaling metrics do not relate system performance to sales, hosting costs and profits are not optimized completely. The following article proposes a novel technique...
Transaction context is an important aspect that should be taken into account for reputation-based trust assessment, because referrals are bound to the situation-specific context in which they were created. The non-consideration of transaction context may cause several threats such as the value imbalance problem. Exploiting this weakness, a seller can build high reputation by selling cheap products...
Mass customization (MC), i.e. offering customers exactly what they want without losing in operational efficiency, has been positioned as a viable business strategy in ecommerce for many years. Still, many companies have failed in implementing profitable MC. We explain these failures by the lack of strategic capabilities in these firms and examine their effect on firm performance, drawing on a survey...
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...
A major problem facing the full deployment of business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the development of trust on the side of the consumer, particularly in developing countries. Differing characteristics of local environments and their cultures have created a significant level of variation in the acceptance and trust to e-commerce and e-transactions. Exploring influencing factors...
The ecommerce market in China is both the largest online market in the world and the one with the greatest number of low quality or counterfeit product offerings. Using case studies to develop testable hypotheses, as proposed by Eisenhardt and Graebner, we examine three very successful online companies in China and their very different paths to success. Our findings suggest that offering promises,...
This study evaluates the current state of electronic commerce (EC) research in China. The authors examine 275 articles in 18 journals acknowledged as the top journals of the field from 1998 to 2010. This study summaries some literatures and classification for EC. The authors present the four classifications which are research field, research objects, operational progresses and research methods. The...
Due to the considerably big marketplace, enterprises seek to benefit from e-commerce in China. But up to now very few of them have been successful, because some business models and strategies in developed countries can not be applied in China. This article mainly discusses previous publications on the definition of electronic commerce and business modals, previous empirical studies on determinants...
With the development of electronic commerce, the traditional enterprise operation mode has not adapted to market development, and supply chain management emerged, its important position also acquires more and more attention— Competition in modern enterprises is no longer a single competition, but the competition among supply chains. This paper introduces the basic knowledge on electronic commerce...
These China has the resources, the means, and the motivation to be a central player in the global e-commerce industry but is lagging far behind other countries in terms of market size and scope. Particularly significant is the dearth of business-to-business transactions, which have been growing by leaps and bounds elsewhere. The key reasons for China's e-commerce problems include an insufficient grasp...
A B2B electronic marketplace (e-marketplace) can theoretically create much business value, but the realization of this value depends on its successful adoption. Since the adoption of the e-marketplace involves multiple aspects, it is necessary to explore a set of critical factors that determine the adoption decision. This research proposes such a set of factors from both transactional and relational...
This paper, from the concept perspective, with empirical analysis approach, layouts the Application Model of Complete E-commerce Platform (CECP), which is an development of E-commerce and a new mode for Tangible Product (TP) transaction, as well as a new way of TP logistics in the Information Society. The paper summarily narrates CECP structure as a whole, introduces its Matrix Model and its theoretical...
In electronic commerce, honesty often becomes a major obstacle to a successful trading for both parties involved in the transaction because they don't know each other. This paper applied the Game Tree to describe two types of trading models in electronic commerce, and adopted the method of minimax analysis to analyze both parties' choice strategies in the models. Based on this, some specific conditions...
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