This article examines the effects of demographic factors on the linkages between perceptions of information technology and electronic commerce adoption. Many firms are moving to create virtual marketplace as their primary points of consumer contact. In this environment, demographic factors such as gender, age, education and income may play a role in adopting electronic commerce. Quantitative research is applied with data collected from Internet users in South Korea. The data is analyzed using factor analysis, multivariate analysis of variance, and regression analysis methods. The findings suggest that the effects of demographic factors have moderated in information technology use; the respondents demonstrate positive attitudes toward the benefits of electronic commerce and its adoption ...
[...] provisions targeted at providing legal recognition to electronic documents and to acts performed through electronic communication have emerged in many countries.4 A certain number of international instruments also focus on this specific topic. [...] as usual when we talk about merchants, the trade refused to wait for the arrival of the necessary changes in the law and began to pursue the legal recognition of electronic writings and signatures through contractual arrangements.9 In order to support such endeavors and their objectives, some international bodies began to produce instruments supplying models and guidelines for the implementation of contractual rules on the use of electronic means.10 Shortly thereafter, legislators began to care about the need for removing legal obstac...
Electronic commerce tax administration in Canada was the subject of Sept 17, 1998 Tax Executives Institute (TEI) comments to Canada's Minister of National Revenue, Herb Dhaliwal. TEI recommended that Revenue Canada should continue to receive input from the business community and international government bodies in it efforts to work toward international agreement on taxation of electronic commerce. Several specific issues were addressed.
The world is flat with Electronic Commerce moving it into new terrains of information exchange and means of conducting business activities. The acceptance of Electronic Commerce as an IT infrastructure depends on the users' conscious assessment of the influencing constructs as could be depicted in Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Theory of Reasoned Action, Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), Innovation Diffusion Theory, and Technology-Organization-Environment (T-O-E) model. The paper accused TAM and TPB of being traditional and utilitarian-based. In order to make for better explanatory and predictive values, TAM need be integrated with other IT theories that incorporated decision-makers' social and idiosyncratic characteristics. This paper reviews and synthesizes the constructs of these...
Preliminary Remarks I. The Directive On Electronic Commerce II. Preventing Discrimination III. Some General Provisions On Contracts IV. Redress And Reputation Conclusions
Introduction: Substitutes For Contract Enforcement II. Reputational Intermediaries III. Reputational Intermediaries In Electronic Commerce IV. Feedback Mechanisms In Electronic Commerce V. Legal Reform And Reputational Intermediaries Conclusion
The new economy, characterized by the increase and spread of new information and communication technologies in organizations, has changed the economic precepts established in the physical markets. Electronic commerce business to customer (B2C), which represents the company-customer electronic commerce mode, has contributed significantly to this fact. This justifies and promotes the development of studies aimed at deciphering the new parameters in quality management in the electronic age, especially in relation to electronic commerce B2C. For this reason, the fundamental proposal of this article is to analyze and compare the applicability of the SERVQUAL survey instrument, which is widely accepted in the literature on traditional service, in electronic commerce B2C. As a principal conclu...
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