Online grocery retailing in Jordan: Future perspectives

Electronic commerce (e-Commerce) has been considered as the way of conducting business transactions online. The use of e-commerce technologies is widely accepted around the world since it offers organizations many opportunities to improve their performance. However, it is still skeptical that using this technology will come up with positive expectations. This study aimed at identifying the possible benefits and barriers that may affect the Jordanian grocery retailers’ decision to adopt this kind of technologies

New technologies for e-commerce

Today electronic commerce (e-commerce) has changed the way of doing business, and contributes significantly to economic activity. In any case, e-commerce is not a static field but it is always evolving in order to support new and more complex real world processes. The agriculture sector is expected to undergo significant transformation as a result of new business models being adopted through ecommerce. Examples of the adoption of new technologies in agriculture are provided with a view to demonstrating the benefits that can be achieved. The first part I expound the basics of e-commerce and e-markets. After I describe potential benefits to agriculture from adoption of e-commerce. The last part I describe the ecommerce 2.0, what is a prospect evolution of e-commerce

The Development of an Information Society and Electronic Commerce in the European Union in the Context of Selected Documents of the EU and International Organisations

In this article, the author presents selected documents on electronic commerce published by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the World Trade Organization, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the International Chamber of Commerce and the European Union since 1994.W niniejszym artykule autor prezentuje wybrane dokumenty dotyczące handlu elektronicznego opublikowane przez Komisję ONZ ds. Prawa Handlu Międzynarodowego, Światową Organizację Handlu OECD, Międzynarodową Izbę Handlu oraz Unię Europejską od roku 1994

A STUDY ON ONLINE SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR IN DIGITAL ERA, NEW TREND & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

Electronic commerce, commonly known as E-commerce or e-commerce, is trading in products or services conducted via computer networks such as the Internet. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction's life cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices, social media, and telephones as well

Analysis of U.S. E-Commerce Sales Using Winters’ Method

More than three billion people around the world have the access to the Internet or around 40% of the world population has an Internet connection, and there are over one billion websites on the World Wide Web as of August 2016 (InternetLiveStas). While these numbers are truly impressive, there is no doubt that they will continue to grow rapidly in the foreseeable future. Business on the Internet has also flourished as a consequence. Electronic commerce or e-business, the process of buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging products, service, or information via computing networks, including the Internet, is positively one of the major driving forces for businesses of all sizes today. The impact of electronic commerce is indeed phenomenal or even revolutionary. The Internet and World Wide Web have changed our society substantially in general, and the ways in which companies and organizations conduct businesses, consumers buy, sell and exchange, and individuals work, communicate, entertain, get educated, and involve in many other activities in particular. The benefits and advantages of electronic commerce are being felt in many different and meaningfully ways. Nowadays a significant portion of businesses rely either heavily or in some cases solely on the revenues or returns generated from the electronic commerce division of their corresponding businesses. More and more companies and organizations of all sizes, are working to make a greater presence in the virtual world and conduct more e-commerce because of the importance of e-commerce to the success, or sustainability, or even the very survival of the organization as well as the advantages e-business brings. U.S. Census Bureau has being conducted survey on e-commerce sales since 1999 and estimated that the total electronic sales (defined as sales of goods and services where an order is placed by the buyer or price and terms of sale are negotiated over an Internet, extranet, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) network, electronic mail, or other online system) in the U.S. This paper provides a time-series analysis of U.S. e-commerce sales for the period of 1999 - 2015 using Winters’ Method. It also includes quarterly U.S. e-commerce sales projections for the period of 2015 - 2017. Keywords: Electronic Commerce; E-Commerce; Time Series Analysis; Winters’ method; Seasonality; Exponential smoothin

Panel 1 Electronic Commerce in the Year 2006

This panel considers the nature of electronic commerce in the year 2006. It is easy to predict that the technological foundations of electronic commerce will fall neatly into place in just a year or so. But what happens after that? How will electronic commerce evolve over the next decade? By thinking creatively about the world of tomorrow, our three panelists will present three diverse characterizations of electronic commerce in the future. Each panelist’s view is a personal one, emphasizing different issues. Their characterizations of electronic commerce in 2006 will emphasize insight, not forecasting, with an eye toward learning, not planning

The Digital Signature: Your Identity by the Numbers

Electronic commerce is the future of business. Today electronic commerce is a $3.6 billion industry. Thousands of businesses use the Internet to buy and sell their wares. As individuals and businesses increasingly use the Internet for commerce, contracts are moving online too. Because electronic commerce is conducted online, it is infeasible to make contracts through the traditional paper method. An electronic contract can be sent halfway across the world in seconds; whereas the same contract on paper would take days or weeks

E-commerce – a new opportunity to increase competitivity

The extraordinary impact of the information technology, everything that is or becomes „e”, puts its mark on the whole economic, social, cultural life of the mankind and virtually governs the whole modern world. In a world dominated by the small „e”, in a world that doesn’t stop talking about e-business (electronic business), e-commerce (electronic commerce) is a concept that underlines one of the most important facilities offered by the Internet network: the capacity to make transactions beyond the borders, time and space. In the view of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the electronic commerce represents running a business through the Internet network, selling the products and services being made offline or online. In a more eloquent definition the electronic commerce represents „the capacity to realize transactions that involve the exchange of products and services between two or more parties, using electronic instruments and techniques”. At present, the electronic commerce has become an essential component of the policies for economic development promoted by the developed countries, particularly, and by the developing ones, thus becoming a fundamental component of the international commerce.