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Although research indicates e-commerce offers viable and practical solutions for organizations to meet challenges of a predominantly changing environment, the few available studies related to SMEs in developing countries reveal a delay or failure on the part of SMEs in adopting e-transformation technologies. The various factors identified as causes for the reticence can be broadly classified as Internal...
Parties of the cases concerning online market runners put forward their pleading and defense on the judgment. The judges rendered their judgments - sustain, and offered their argumentation. All these defense and argumentation go with the process of rhetoric. Exactly speaking, convincing others is the ultimate purpose, expressing their own claimed wordings. Herein the two Taobao cases give us a chance...
Internet gives small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals an easy way to set up web sites to provide Web services throughout the world. But good Web services vendors are always intermingled with bad ones. When we seek an unknown Web service provider in an unfamiliar field, we must quantify trust before transaction and select the best vendor to assure that everything works as we expected. In...
Network Neutrality is a concept that while not clearly defined, has generated great debate in many different venues such as economics, academia, law, the Internet industry and Congress, with both sides of the debate diametrically opposed. Currently, there is no neutral source that attempts to present the arguments of both sides without forming a definitive opinion. The objective of this paper is to...
This paper proposes the 'Tag Match' advertising business model which uses mobile RFID. Tag Match Advertising (TMA) combines features of the mobile RFID characteristics and content match advertising model on the Internet. TMA model can be defined as 'an advertising model, based on mobile RFID application, which offers the most appropriate advertisement for users after the consideration of users' demographic...
Credit card fraud on the Internet is a serious and growing issue. Many criminals have hacked into merchant databases to obtain cardholder details enabling them to conduct fake transactions or to sell the details in the digital underground economy. The card brands have set up a standard called PCI DSS to secure credit card details when they are stored online. We investigate the standard and find significant...
In Korea, information and communication infrastructure have grown dramatically under government's powerful drive. The number of Internet users has increased rapidly and many Internet businesses emerged in late 90's. However, after "dot-com bubble" burst in 2001, many dot-com companies folded and the feasibility of profit models was scrutinized. Of course, there are businesses that survived...
This paper focuses on the needs of free-press editorial companies in terms of tools and supporting activities needed for developing their business in both classical paper world and more recently on the web considering also Web 2.0 technologies. In this paper the preliminary results of a project partially founded by MUR (Italian Ministry of University and Research) are presented in both terms of tools...
The delivering service of commodity orders to buyers can be seen as the last mile of logistics service in the electronic commerce dealing, especially for the individual online auction through the C2C transaction. The home delivery service is a mode of delivering service, and there are several issues on it: what are determinates of logistics service quality on home delivery service and what the relationship...
This multi-channel commerce gift registry solution is a design using a service-oriented architecture for real-time communication amongst a central Web application server, store branches and telesales centers. Product information, promotions, order entries, and services are fully integrated across sales channels and customer touch points, such as Web browsers, telephones, store kiosks, wireless shopping...
This study investigates investor relations related items on websites of listed companies in Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Exchange. To compare the IR efforts situation of companies in these three markets, a website based investor relations index WBIRX is put forward. Then, by comparison, the study shows that, despite some fast progress, both in formats and contents,...
The efficiency of a market critically depends on the amount and the nature of information-about products-available to sellers and buyers. The electronic marketplace, however, will not be such a blindingly efficient market because of the cyber 'lemons' problem resulting form the asymmetry of information. But, it's a pity that we merely idolize the convenient such as the products customization or personalization...
Incentives may affect users' behavior. It is critical to study how users' perception and intention are affected by the incentives. This study presents an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) that integrates incentives into TAM to investigate what determines user mobile commerce acceptance. We apply this model to the case of a GPS-based taxi-dispatching system. Preliminary data analysis illustrates...
Positive network externality enables the Internet enterprises to attach great importance not only to the network size but also to the speed of the network size to be reached. Basing on the analysis of the development and expansion course of several typical e-commerce sites as pioneers of market segments, this paper discusses the subsidy policies of how these companies entered the various China's e-commerce...
Financial institutions, esp. retail banking, have given evidence for the existence of a priority pattern of CRM system in our study. It is concluded that how to manage the relationship of customers and corporations is the core in commercial banks. The paper is to explore CRM of banks to find out if general patterns are applicable. As such, the study shows the comparison of CRM performance with different...
Online auction is a field that is continuing to grow, and its concept may be defining a totally new and unique distribution alternative. Very few studies have noted online auction sellers and their internet marketing strategies. This research examines the marketing mix for SME in online auctions as it relates to the two-sided platforms. We found that there is great differentiation on marketing strategies...
E-service quality is increasingly recognized as an important aspect of electronic commerce. Because the online comparison of the technical features of products is essentially costless, feasible, and easier than comparisons of products through traditional channels. So for providers of electronic services, quality is a major driving force on the route to long- term success. Comprehensive measurement...
By analyzing the current E-commerce pattern of China's travel industry, the paper make researches in the application of E-commerce pattern based on value-chain and probe into the advantages and foreground of new value-chain based on BSP for further step. Finally, the paper provides some advices to the current development situation of travel industry E-commerce in China.
The worldwide proliferation of the Internet led to the birth of E-commerce. Payment system plays an important role in E-commerce. This paper focuses on the capability of network virtual money to serve as a small payment system in Chinese E-commerce, especially in the purchases of virtual products and network add-value services which are B2C businesses. First, we show an overview of virtual money....
With the rapid development of the automobile industry, the demand for automobile rescue services has also become increasingly strong. The article firstly analyses and compares the models of automobile rescue services both at home and abroad, and then builds an e-commerce site of automobile rescue services-995 automobiles rescue network (995 ARN). It creatively integrates the technology of mobile commerce...
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