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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Electronic Commerce"”.
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Electronic commerce systems’ quality assessment /
Quality of electronic commerce systems is the main object of this doctoral dissertation. E commerce systems are specific and develop fast, so it is difficult to choose an appropriate method of its quality assessment, which would be flexible enough. Nevertheless, the creation of such evaluation tool …
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Agent assisted price negotiation for electronic commerce
Current electronic retail stores do not offer one-to-one price negotiation capabilities. From a consumer's perspective, price negotiation provides an opportunity to debate the price. From a vendor's perspective, the ability to negotiate allows for flexibility in pricing that a rigidly fixed price …
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User interface agents in electronic commerce applications
… using the user interface software. In electronic commerce applications, the user interface software plays an important role. Users of different kinds and backgrounds will use this software with different expectations. Traditional studies of user interface technology have shown the …
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A new user model to support electronic commerce
… incompleteness, and proactive notification. In electronic commerce applications, the user interface plays a key role in achieving user acceptance. This is more so, in the case of business-to-consumer type e-commerce. Based on the user needs, we classify the shopping behavior of consumers into …
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The taxation of electronic commerce in South Africa
… laws of taxation. Taxpayers conducting business electronically realise that they face not only the risk ~ of multiple taxation, but also the serious risk of new or increased taxes. 1 Tax authorities, on the other hand, believe that their tax bases are at risk of erosion because of what they …
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Enablers and inhibitors of electronic commerce: an Australian study
… the benefits, challenges and success factors of electronic commerce in Australian companies. This research was conducted in four phases: literature review; semi-structured interviews with seven well-established companies located in Melbourne and Sydney; postal questionnaire survey of top 500 …
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Peer to peer transactions in agent-mediated electronic commerce
This thesis proposes a new approach to electronic markets that overcomes the shortcomings of existing electronic markets through software agent-driven, peer-to-peer, iterative negotiations. Contemporary electronic markets commonly capture both the customs and shortcomings of traditional practice. …
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Business-to-business electronic commerce : disintermediation and channel conflict
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1999.
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The convergence of supply chain integration and electronic commerce
… and supply chain collaboration. New models of electronic commerce were often not economically feasible before the widespread deployment of the internet, but they fundamentally rely on the same principles of marketing and supply chain integration that govern the pre-internet business world. …
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Electronic commerce in Namibia: Its growth, present status and potential
… over. This new concept of trading is known as Electronic Commerce (e-commerce). Great potentials exist for saving costs and improving services by utilizing this technology. Examples of phenomenal successes and staggering cost savings are just too many. Profits in millions of dollars are …
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Essays on the Economics of Electronic Commerce and Social Networks
This dissertation studies the economics of electronic commerce and social networks. The first essay, "Market Mechanisms in Online Crowdfunding," systematically compares auctions with a platform-mandated posted-price mechanism in online crowdfunding. We exploit a regime change from auctions to …
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The Impact of Electronic Commerce on Consumer and Organizational Costs
… conclusion of this study is that the benefits of electronic commerce to consumers (primarily reduction of search costs and prices), and organizations (reduction of market interface and production costs, expansion of market presence, and creation of new sources of revenue) outweigh any increase in …
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Merchant differentiation through integrative negotiation in agent-mediated electronic commerce
This thesis proposes to fix online shopping by guiding it away from price comparisons and toward value comparisons. Though price comparisons may be adequate for simple products (e.g., books and music), they are inadequate for facilitating transactions of complex products (e.g., computers and …
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Factors Affecting Electronic Commerce Acceptance and Usage in Libyan ICT Organizations
… accept new Informatics systems such as E-commerce is one of the main issues in information systems research. Libya needs to develop and implement E-commerce systems successfully; Libya has fallen far behind other similar states in the region with regard to internet and E-commerce uptake. …
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CLOUD COMMERCE - A DESIGN SCIENCE ENDEAVOR TOWARDS NEXT GENERATION ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
… particular consumers¿ cloud-based services for electronic commerce. This thesis proposes a novel electronic commerce platform known as Cloud Commerce that is conceptualized and developed around the various concepts of Cloud Computing such as Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service. Cloud …
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Electronic Commerce in Business -to -Business Procurement: The Effects on Organizations
The results of the experiment can be summarized in a simple statement; while organizations do adjust to the changing environment of EC, they do so in a manner that does not radically change the structure of interactions between businesses. Businesses still deal one-on-one and they also continue to …
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Reverse logistics process identification in the business to consumer electronic commerce
commerce will have to prove its reliability and convenience. Operational excellence and coordination among the supply chain will allow e-vendors to offer services like on-time delivery and simple return processes, vital factors for electronic vendors' success. The purpose of this thesis is to …
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An empirical analysis of financial issues in the Australian electronic commerce sector
E-commerce is a new phenomenon in the financial markets. The rapid advances in the information and communications technology sector have facilitated the advent of e-commerce and has resulted in global market euphoria over technology stocks in financial markets. This thesis is based on the premise …
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Achieving Fair Exchange and Customer Anonymity for Online Products in Electronic Commerce
In the recent years, e-commerce has gained much importance. Traditional commerce (in which case the customer physically goes to the merchant’s shop, purchases goods and/or services and makes a payment) is slowly being replaced with e-commerce and more people tend to prefer doing their shopping …
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Nonlinear navigation and context-sensitive help in the Sloan Electronic Commerce Project
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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