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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...
The quick development of information industry including computers, communications and Internet provides enterprises with electronic commerce. Electronic Commerce does not only change enterprises' management methods, but also change their operation means. The impact of electronic commerce on managing enterprise is studied from the enterprise operation perspective to improve enterprise operation efficiency.
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...
Positive feedback from previous users can affect consumer behavior towards an electronic commerce website. Social Network Sites provide a way to gather feedback from SNS users and show them on websites, but not much research has been done on this type of feedback mechanism. In this study we investigate the influence that SNS-based feedback has on the behavior of consumers, comparing the effect in...
In order to enhance the industrialization of the tourism e-commerce in china, the author of this paper, adopts SPSS17.0 statistical software to process the hands-on data based on the questionnaires and analyzes the influence factor of the tourism e-commerce systematically. The conclusion is that comprehensive information, secure transaction, convenient communication as well as good after service is...
Using a qualitative approach, this study examines e-commerce adoption in the Saudi tourism industry. The research concerns organisational factors for tourism firms to consider when moving their sales online. The competing values framework was used to classify the firms' organisational culture. The study's findings suggest a relationship between the organisation's culture and its ability to use electronic...
Previous studies explained the adoption process of e-commerce was influenced by individual acceptance and used theories such as Theory of Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and others. Then, a new idea emerged; if a company wants to achieve a goal, common interests are needed. The idea is known as Stakeholder Theory. This study is based on Stakeholder Theory and performed on...
in this paper, we propose Application Enabled Mobile Service Architecture (AE-MSA) for collecting, querying, and retrieving Real-Time, Real-Location, and Real-Identity Service Information (R3SI) in cellular networks. Different from extant services over mobile phones, AE-MSA is designed for mobile business users to explore potential service opportunities in their proximity. Specifically, AE-MSA reveals...
Credibility is a structure based on the users' cognition and is the subjective judgment and the assessment from the users. The distortion of the network information exists in the link of "information source-information channelaudiences" under the open network environment. The factors on impacting Internet information credibility include dependence degree, information involvement degree,...
Internet banking is the current trend in the electronic revolution in Malaysia. However, the growth rate in Internet banking has not kept pace with the general usage of Internet. One of the major determinants of the Internet banking adoption is trust. It is of paramount importance as the lack of trust is the primary reason for not engaging in Internet banking. The purpose of this paper is to determine...
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...
As the Web development moves into its second phase of the Web evolution, it has been decided to set up a Web 3.0 research group aimed at constructing an electronic commerce platform combined with an electronic tracking system for agricultural products based on Web 3.0. This paper outlines the concept of Web 3.0 and how to build an agriculture business related platform using Web 3.0 technology. The...
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,...
Expansion in the use of the World Wide Web led to the creation of a new phenomenon in our daily life which is a phenomenon of electronic commerce. E-commerce is generally known as any form of trade or administration or exchanging of information that are conducted by using information and communication technologies. Capacity of electronic commerce is expected to grow rapidly, and play a vital role...
The rapid development of internet economy brings changes to research areas of economics. Currently, there appear different research areas and boundaries specific to internet economy. As a result, it is of practical significance to probe into and analyze the fundamental research way and framework of internet economics starting from the micro level to provide theoretical basis as well as empirical support...
This paper presents findings from a study of factors affecting the rate of diffusion and adoption of online retailing in Saudi Arabia. In general, Saudi retailers have not responded actively to the global growth of online retailing. Accordingly, this research was conducted to find the key factors involved in this phenomenon. A major finding presented here, is that both buyers and sellers emphasize...
A great deal of efficiency and productivity increase have been achieved in the production process through the use of electronic commerce (E-commerce) in recent years. These developments have created remarkable opportunities for the trade-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) whose advertising and marketing budgets are relatively limited. In the era of internet, how to seize the great...
The rapid development of e-commerce is a great opportunity for Xinjiang tourism. Based on an objective analysis of the status quo of Xinjiang Tourism e-commerce, I find that Xinjiang is rich in its Tourism resources, but the conditions for developing Tourism e-commerce are not satisfactory. The general environment for developing Tourism e-commerce is not satisfactory and compound talent is badly needed...
This paper studies the bidding behavior and the expected profits in the pay-per-bid auctions. By collecting auction data on bidxi.com, we make the two-step cluster analysis to divide bidders into irrational bidders and rational bidders. It shows that no matter what strategies bidders are used, their expected profits are always negative. Then, we analyze the impact of some factors on the auction price...
Firstly, the article defined the concept of internet mouth in different research fields; on the base of realistic condition of Chinese electron commerce, the influencing factor model of internet mouth of dissemination credibility was built. In the analysis validated, website credit, information frame, the character of information disseminator, the specialty of information embracer, the connection...
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