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There has been significant increase in bringing awareness across Saudi Arabia towards recycling and its impact on our environment especially in the past decade. Unfortunately, recycling succession process requires further cooperation by consumers to be advantageous and to actively promote recycling business in the competitive Saudi market. To overcome these challenges, we propose a new web framework...
In the modern market, e-commerce is absolutely essential in business marketing and advertising. Many studies have been conducted to explore the relations between players and companies by creating the trust within security and culture. Various models have been proposed to show the reliability of trust that in a successful e-commerce website. In this paper, we have built a new framework to aggregate...
Mercado Público is a ChileCompra's platform for tenders, an environment where Chilean companies offer and demand goods and services of all kinds. The main aim of this platform is to make more efficient and transparent the contracting processes. Nowadays, tenders asking more than one good and/or service are answered separately. Thus, after receiving the offers from the sellers, the buyer...
The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical approach to support the decision making of distribution center location. We use the LP model to decide the (distribution center) DC's capacity and location with the consideration of delivery time. We find that the time cost effects decision of distribution center location significantly and suggest that manager should involve cost of time in their...
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...
This study proposes a methodology for quantification of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for performance evaluation of banks in India using crisp and Fuzzy Multi Attribute Decision Making (FMADM). The four perspectives of balanced scorecard, also known as, performance indicators have been designed through the expert opinion. This performance indicator of a perspective assesses the performance of that particular...
The E-Commerce ontology is an ontology that is being developed for Web entity-tracing discovering and analysis system, which aims at market intelligence. This paper presents the construction method of E-commerce ontology. In the process of developing ontology, we consider dynamic entity relations besides static entity relations, making the ontology more powerful to model the entities, events and the...
Cloud computing provides a large pool of accessible resources (hardware, platform, software) in a form of services. It became a cost effective alternative to the traditional IT infrastructure. Nowadays, as more and more e-commerce companies delegate their task to cloud providers, Services Level Agreement (SLA) became an important aspect between the cloud consumer and cloud provider, the dynamic nature...
In recent years, social commerce which utilizes social and online media to aid E-commerce activities has gained major attention in E-business world. Social commerce is proven to affect the companies' business positively when integrated into existing E-business models. The rise of Web 2.0 technology and the boom of social networking sites also suggest the possibilities and potentials of adopting social...
E-commerce has rapid growth in the last two decades due to the development of information technologies, mobile network services and application of big data. Nowadays, e-commerce has reached a stage in which e-businesses are far beyond the online trading of buy-pay-deliver, but covers a much broader spectrum of line business activities, such as financing, which indicates that e-commerce has been transited...
In recent years, according to the enterprises' needs of the outsourcing service, e-commerce enterprises have already walked through start-up period and network market period, now begin to enter the third stage — outsourcing service period. By the limitation of capital, human resources, etc, many domestic small and medium-sized enterprises need the society to provide professional e-commerce service...
Lack of trust is one of the key bottle necks in e-commerce development. Nowadays many advanced technologies are trying to address the trust issues in e-commerce. One among them suggests using suitable user interfaces. This paper investigates the functionality and capabilities of 3D graphical user interfaces in regard to trust building in the customers of next generation of B2C e-commerce websites...
Due to nature of insurance industry, the way it's represented and also the elegant application of this technology, insurance industry ought to choose a strategic approach to deal with internet. So it is necessary to determine the effects of internet on marketing mix of insurance services (as a strategy and a tool to conduct marketing projects plans including characteristic, tariffs, elation promotion,...
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...
Companies have adapted to the needs and desires of increasingly demanding customer which resulted in the exceeded limits of the traditional business. Small or big, these have adapted to technological progress and understood the major advantages of using Internet in business development, electronic commerce enabling companies to sell products worldwide, increasing the number of potential customers...
The ecommerce market in China is both the largest online market in the world and the market with the greatest number of low quality or counterfeit product offerings. We examine three very successful online companies in China and their very different paths to success and then use our experience to develop testable hypotheses, as proposed by Eisenhardt and Graebner. We present our hypotheses and then...
Many studies have suggested that service system service value creation is considered crucial for electronic and online systems. However few studies have focused on the success factors that drive it. This paper proposes a research model for determining the relationship between complementary services and the service system value of eMarketplaces in Saudi Arabia (SA). It was tested by Saudi online customers...
Tourism agents of distribution are organizational links in a travel product producer's system of describing, selling, and confirming travel arrangements to the buyer. Such channels are needed because it is impractical for any supplier to own sales outlets in every market city. It is much more feasible and productive to distribute the product, for example, through 25,000 retail travel agencies. There...
This article put forward and analysis four major strategies with fully mastering company's real situation: turning into a comprehensive B2C enterprise, opening up the sales platform gradually, improving self-built logistics system, doing after-sales service better. We believe that if Jingdong does the above four aspects enough, it will become the Chinese e-commerce leader and occupy a space in the...
The use of e-commerce in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has become an important topic of many studies. Several studies on e-commerce adoption by SMEs in developing countries have been done. Unfortunately there are still a few studies for that in Indonesia, particularly in West Java province. In addition, only a few studies have been conducted to produce a model that can explain the success of...
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