Regulating e-commerce using XML

E-commerce, which is short for ‘Electronic Commerce’, is simply the idea of replacing physical business transactions with electronic business transactions using the Internet. E-commerce cuts through boundaries such as time and geography to put business owners and customers into virtual contact with one another. A key idea behind E-commerce is the ability to take orders and receive payments through an electronic storefront. Philosophically, E-commerce is about openness, connectivity, and integration between businesses and customers. From the business owner’s perspective, E-commerce provides a way to instantly satisfy demand for products, services, and information of each customer individually. From the customer’s perspective E-commerce offers convenience, variety, cost savings, and anonymity. Ultimately, E-commerce shifts the power from the merchant to the consumer. E-commerce also provides a way for the business to connect its customers, vendors, suppliers and employees all over the world. The business, as such, is now capable of reaching an infinite number of customers over the Web, seeking out potential markets that were once outside its traditional business boundaries.peer-reviewe

Electronic agents on the Internet: A new way to satisfy the consumer?

Our purpose in this article is to present the concept of electronic agent used in e-commerce and its impact on consumer satisfaction. Electronic agents represent the future of electronic business. They help the consumers in an environment where all the information is available but hard to deal with. We try to study the electronic agent in a consumer decision process perspective and to examine the different sort of agents depending on their relationships with vendors and consumers. Our final aim is to understand the role of electronic agent onconsumer satisfaction. For that purpose, we conducted a little empirical study which consist in presenting two types of agents to consumers: a good one and a bad one and to evaluate the level of consumer satisfaction.Electronic agents, consumer behavior, satisfaction, e-commerce.

IS Perspective of Research Issues in Electronic Commerce an Online Auctions

Online auctions represent a model for the way the Internet is shaping the new economy. In the absence of spatial, temporal and geographic constraints these mechanisms provide many benefits to both buyers and sellers. However, significant research is still needed in designing new and better mechanisms, as well as examining the efficacy of existing ones in the contexts of the markets they serve. Issues of mechanism design, secondary market creation, incentive compatibility, bid taker cheating, simultaneous substitutability, and associated research methodologies are discussed in this review paper. Interestingly, one finds a new and potentially insightful research methodology standard being adopted by IS researchers delving into the area of online auctions. This involves quasi-analytical modeling that is subsequently validated by empirical investigation using data collected by automated agents which track real-world web auctions

Enhancing Electronic Commerce by Implementing Agile Manufacturing: An Empirical Study in the Manufacturing Sector

Electronic commerce (EC) is emerging as a driving force in today’s economy. According to Forrester Research Institute (1997), the estimated sales in electronic commerce would rise from US$1 billion in 1995 to US$117 billion by the year 2006. EC activities are ranging from shopping to manufacturing (Shaw et al., 1997). This research is specifically focused on compatibility issues of operational strategies used in the manufacturing sector of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce is changing manufacturing systems from mass production to demand-driven and possibly customized, just-in-time manufacturing (Turban et al., 2000, Kalakota, R. et al., 1996). In electronic commerce, as product life cycle becomes shortened, high product quality becomes necessary for survival, markets become highly diversified and global, and continuous and unexpected change becomes the key factor for success. The ability to respond quickly and effectively to satisfy customers has become a defining characteristic of competitiveness for manufacturing companies in the electronic commerce era. Agile manufacturing is an emerging new manufacturing paradigm, which considers agility a key concept necessary to survive against competitors under an unexpectedly turbulent and changing environment (Goldman et al., 1995). Thus, agile manufacturing is a viable operational choice for the manufacturing companies in electronic commerce. As Shaw et al. (1997) point out that a key feature of electronic commerce research as a distinct discipline is its multidisciplinary perspective. This study is exploring electronic commerce research from both MIS and OM perspectives

CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN LATVIA

The electronic commerce has become an integral part of the global economy during the last decade. The most obvious indication of the importance of electronic commerce in the world economy is rapidly increasing Internet use in trade and other sectors. The successful growth of E-commerce promotes the use of other electronic media, as well as it is perspective for development of territories located in backcountry and remote regions. In the result of the Internet and electronic commerce technological development there can be observed changes also in the business environment. In these circumstances successful strategies applied in different levels and sectors for the implementation of the most modern information technology achievements, as well as for the development of professionals with appropriate knowledge, expertise and skills, are becoming increasingly important for the development of electronic commerce in Latvia. The article will view the current situation, will explain the main limiting factors and advantages for successful development of the electronic commerce in Latvia

The Dual Perspective of Social Commerce Adoption

Social commerce is a new type of electronic commerce which uses social networks to facilitate social interactions and user contributions. Since social commerce is still in its early development, there is lack of theoretical model to analyze what factors may affect people’s intention to participate in social commerce. The purpose of this research is to propose a theoretical model to analyze user adoption behavior with the consideration of perceived benefit, perceived risk, and trust believes from both commerce and social networks perspective. The model will be empirically tested through an online user survey. This dual-perspective model may also be extended to study user adoption behavior in new types of e-healthcare or e-government system with strong social network connections

Peran E- Commerce Dalam Meningkatkan Pendapatan Penjualan Dalam Perspektif Islam

Electronic commerce is a term that is often used today for transactions online or related to the Internet. In another opinion, e-commerce is a form of media for distributing, buying, marketing, and selling goods or services through internet electronic systems. The development of e-commerce - commerce cannot be separated from the growth rate of the Internet because e-commerce is under the Internet network. The rapid growth of the internet has made a new change in people's lives and the internet has made the internet an effective medium for business people to sell their various products. This research is a type of qualitative research, using a case study approach (Case Study), in this study using several stages in data collection in the field, namely describing existing data, and in the form of data that describes in detail, the purpose of this study is to find out how the role of e-commerce in increasing sales revenue and e-commerce in an Islamic perspective. The results of this study are that the role of e-commerce in increasing sales revenue is very important for sales and of course, transactions carried out in accordance with Islam

Automating distributed workflow for electronic commerce: A model for building meta-workflow components

Business software development environments for web- based applications are at a very early stage in their potential lifecycle. The purpose of this research agenda is to develop a model for how business processes can be interpreted into primitive computer codes for web applications. We have taken a transaction perspective adapted from the distributed database approach to maintenance of integrity assuming the concepts of ACIDity (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) and serializability. This perspective is consistent with emerging literature on “workflow agents” [e.g., Huhns and Singh, 1998]. In this paper, we design, develop, and show an example of a meta-level set of building blocks for a direct mapping between electronic commerce and workflow processes. To validate the sufficiency and completeness of the meta-level components proposed, a complete mapping of an electronic commerce application to meta-workflow components is proposed

The moderating effect of religiosity on the relationship between technology readiness and diffusion of electronic commerce

Developing states, following the theory of “the survival of the fittest”, are severely in need of building up their electronic commerce for their economic survival on the globe.Beside other challenges, developing states are lagging behind in terms of technology readiness (TR).Another leading factor, particularly within the practicing Muslim communities, could be the impact of religiosity that has been unanimously found playing an immense role in buyers’ buying attitude, judgment of product price and quality. Having an immense influence, it affects both intra-personally and interpersonally.Furthermore, religiosity shapes consumers’ mind-set, learning and life style and is also considered as one of the significant factors with regards to hi-tech innovations adoption. This paper puts light on the relevant and valuable perspectives: technology readiness, religiosity and diffusion of electronic commerce, in the perspective of Muslim majority developing countries. While contributing to the field of knowledge, the study highlights the importance of technology readiness and trust in the diffusion process of electronic commerce. Looking into the moderating effect of religiosity in this regard, it underlines the unique features (completeness, universality, ever-greenness and applicability) of Islam including the moderate approach of Islam, toward technologies including e-commerce, thus boosting up electronic commerce trade.While, possessing the practical, educational and theological implications, the study will be helpful to all the stakeholders including; prospective consumers, governmental concerned authorities and e-commerce global community

Web-TRECS: teaching electronic commerce

Effective Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) education for students in such disciplines as Management Information Systems, Accounting and Marketing is paramount. This is because organisations globally need people who are skilled in e-Commerce, from a technical and/or organisational perspective, so that the firms can take advantage of such technologies as the Web. The challenge for business and e-Commerce educators, therefore, is the development of teaching tools and environments which provide tertiary students and business people with practically-based opportunities for learning about the potential of e-Commerce. Business simulation approaches to e-Commerce education are a particularly effective way in which to provide students with these pedagogic opportunities. This paper provides an overview of a Web-based e-Commerce business simulation called Web-TRECS (Teaching Realistic Electronic Commerce Solutions). It then describes how the software components of Web-TRECS have been designed to form the e-Commerce teaching tool. The paper then discusses how Web-TRECS could be used to teach a range of e-Commerce concepts and skills, based on six years of research into the use of e-Commerce business simulations. The paper finally concludes by outlining our future research plans to extend Web-TRECS so that additional e-Commerce concepts and skills might be taught using this tool.<br /