Online piracy may substantially undermine intellectual property rights of digital goods. There is much controversy concerning the issue of music piracy over the internet and the implementation of new information technology in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) with the rebirth of Napster and...

A common problem to current digital subscription services is how to prevent membership (e.g. account and password) sharing beyond authorised consumers. Unlike traditional subscription services such as wired phone examples, sharing is much more popular in a digital world due to the access of...

One specific form of industry transformation process is the so-called e-transformation, which focuses on the impacts of digitalisation and interconnectedness. Over the course of an industry sector's e-transformation, four characteristic stages of development can be identified to show particular...

Business and economy are inextricably linked with the development and implementation of new technology. While e-commerce clearly has a positive impact on the business sector, doubts have been raised about its impact on the macroeconomic growth and development. Impact of internet and e-commerce...

This study develops and validates an extended model, to predict and explain consumers' intentions to transact with an internet-based Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce system, based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). In the augmented TAM of this study, additionally to ease of use and...

Given the importance of this theme, we intend to approach in a paper in itself. So far, we summarize the debate to bring in new terms and new issues in which they and circumscriu issues which involve both technical progress, and modem management and, implicitly, that appropriate policies are...

The development processes in information and communication technology and the internet particularly, have revolutionized the entire tourism industry, generating new models of business, changing the structure of distribution channels used by tourism industry and redesigning all processes...

Credit cards have been the dominant payment method for the electronic commerce retail industry. However, online retailers, especially the small to medium ones, continue to be disadvantaged by the seemingly arbitrary bucket pricing strategy implemented by the credit card processing companies. We...

Le commerce électronique représente probablement la quatrième révolution commerciale après les boutiques, les grands magasins, et le libre-service. Face au dynamisme des pratiques et au caractère exploratoire des recherches dans ce domaine, cet article se donne pour modeste objectif de...

Management of supply chains is a difficult task involving coordination and decision-making across organizational boundaries. Computational modeling using multi-agent simulation is a tool that can provide decision support for supply chain managers. We identify the components of a supply chain...