On August 13, 2009, the Payment Cards Center hosted a workshop examining the changing nature of data security in consumer electronic payments. The center invited the chairman and CEO of Heartland Payment Systems (HPS or Heartland), Robert (Bob) Carr, to lead this discussion and to share his...

E-commerce has become an increasingly important source of competitive advantages for business-to-business (B2B) companies. It enables companies not only to decrease transactional costs and offer wide range of additional services, but also to enhance efficiency in collaboration with their...

To explore the evolution of consumers' transition behaviour under collaborative e-commerce, on the basis of actual Chinese collaborative e-commerce vendors Rakuten, Flashpoint 100 and so on a framework of e-commerce consumer transition behaviour is proposed. Related literature in sum has...

Ukraine is quite active in bringing its banking activity in correspondence with European standards. Internet banking, as a market of electronic commerce in Ukraine, in general, is at the stage of formation. That is why issues of development of Internet banking, which have both practical and...

This paper examines search across competing e-commerce sites. By analyzing panel data from over 10,000 Internet households and three commodity-like products (books, compact discs (CDs), and air travel services), we show that the amount of online search is actually quite limited. On average,...

A key question for Internet commerce is the nature of competition with traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. Although traditional retailers vastly outsell Internet retailers in most product categories, research on Internet retailing has largely neglected this fundamental dimension of...

There is growing evidence that consumers are influenced by Internet-based opinion forums before making a variety of purchase decisions. Firms whose products are being discussed in such forums are therefore tempted to manipulate consumer perceptions by posting costly anonymous messages that...