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Selected AbstractsIMPACT OF E-COMMERCE ON QUEENSLAND TAXATIONECONOMIC PAPERS: A JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND POLICY, Issue 1 2001DOMINIC L'HUILLIER First page of article [source] A Model for Audit Engagement Planning of E-CommerceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING, Issue 2 2003Jagdish Pathak The impact of networking technologies on information systems (IS) and its auditing is growing dramatically. This growth is changing the nature of information systems in the modern organization, with special reference to e-commerce. It would also be reasonable to infer that a corresponding effect is mounting on the information system's auditing function. This paper primarily stresses the identification of specific constructs which can contain the potential variables/critical success factors in audit engagement planning that contribute to the success/failure of audit engagement in e-commerce-centric technological scenario, and the same can be used to build a model for its empirical validity in future studies. The objective of this paper is to devise a model, based on the variables turned potential critical success factors to successfully perform audit engagement planning for the current state-of-the-art e-commerce technologies. The available literature is analyzed to identify appropriate candidates for factors that appear to materially affect the success of the e-commerce audit resource planning function. Based on this model, an empirical examination, though not within the scope of this paper, is the next logical step in this direction to establish the validity of this model in the technologically complex e-commerce milieu. [source] E-Commerce, the Internet, and the EnvironmentJOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, Issue 2 2002David Rejeski No abstract is available for this article. [source] Effects of E-Commerce on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Case Study of Grocery Home Delivery in FinlandJOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Hanne Siikavirta Summary In this article, we present a literature review of the general and environmental effects of e-commerce in various parts of the demand-supply chain. These are further translated into effects on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the food production and consumption system. The literature study revealed many opportunities for e-commerce to reduce GHG emissions in the food production and consumption system. Some possibly negative effects were also identified. Electronic grocery shopping (e-grocery) home delivery service was chosen as the subject of a case study because of its direct and indirect potential for reducing the GHG emissions in the food production and consumption system. GHG emission reduction potential through the implementation of various e-grocery home delivery strategies was quantified. Depending on the home delivery model used, it is possible to reduce the GHG emissions generated by grocery shopping by 18% to 87% compared with the situation in which household members go to the store themselves. We estimate that the maximum theoretical potential of e-grocery home delivery service for reducing the GHG emissions of Finland is roughly 0.3% to 1.3%; however, the current and estimated future market potential is much smaller, because the estimated market share of e-grocery services is only 10% by 2005. Narrowing the gap between the theoretical and the actual potential requires a model that would simultaneously provide additional value to the consumer and be profitable to companies. To be able to achieve significant reductions in GHG emissions, system-level innovations and changes are required. Further research is needed before conclusions can be reached as to whether e-commerce and e-grocery are useful tools in that respect. [source] "Revenue Accounting" in the Age of E-Commerce: A Framework for Conceptual, Analytical, and Exchange Rate ConsiderationsJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING, Issue 1 2002Jonathan C. Glover This paper explores "revenue accounting" in contrast to traditional "cost accounting". Revenue accounting serves the information needs of managers and investors in planning and controlling a firm's sales activities and their financial consequences, especially in the age of e-commerce. Weaknesses of traditional accounting have become particularly evident recently, for example, the lack of 1) revenue mileposts, 2) revenue sustainability measurements, and 3) intangibles capitalization. The paper emphasizes the need to develop a conceptual framework of revenue accounting and, as a tentative measure, proposes five basic postulates and five operational postulates of revenue accounting. On the side of analytical frameworks, the paper explores some tentative remedies for the weaknesses. Several revenue mileposts are explored to gauge progress in earning revenues and a Markov process is applied to an example involving mileposts. Revenue momentum, measured by the exponential smoothing method, is examined as a way of getting feedback on revenue sustainability; and the use of the sustainability concept in the analysis of "fixed and variable revenues" is illustrated. A project-oriented approach in a manner similar to capital budgeting and to Reserve Recognition Accounting is proposed by treating each customer as a project. Standardization of forecasts are also considered as an important way of bypassing the capitalization issue. Finally, while e-commerce is inherently global, issues specific to global operations are highlighted, namely, exchange rate issues when venture capitalists and the start-up company use different currencies producing different rates of return on the same project. [source] Globalized Freight Transport: Intermodality, E-Commerce, Logistics and Sustainability, edited by Thomas R. Leinbach and Cristina CapineriJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 2 2009Peter F. Swan No abstract is available for this article. [source] E-Commerce and Export Markets: Small Furniture Producers in South AfricaJOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2003Sagren Moodley First page of article [source] E-Commerce and Information Privacy: Privacy Policies as Personal Information ProtectorsAMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, Issue 1 2007Corey A. Ciocchetti First page of article [source] E-Commerce under the GATSTHE JOURNAL OF WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, Issue 4 2001Implications for International Internet Charging First page of article [source] Situated Learning for an Innovation Economy: E-Commerce and Technology as a Mediator for Rural High School Students' Sense of Mastery and Self-EfficacyANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 2 2005Karen L. Michaelson Abstract Practitioners focusing on technology and workforce development reference the need to prepare individuals for an Innovation Economy. Yet innovation is socially constructed, as much social as it is technical. Observation of 160 high school students from very rural schools participating in a school-based e-commerce curriculum indicates that there are knowledge sets acquired through carefully constructed experiential learning that foster a context for innovation. This counters factors in the traditional education/workforce development system that impede the development of innovators, including a narrows skills-based focus and the demonization of failure. Situating innovation in historical context and in the lived experience of individual networks helps to understand the innovation process and provides a framework for the development of effective educational experiences. [source] E-commerce, Transportation, and Economic GeographyGROWTH AND CHANGE, Issue 4 2003William P. Anderson ABSTRACT This paper explores possible ways in which growth in Internet retailing (e-retailing) may affect the spatial distribution of economic activities. After a brief overview of e-retailing, a categorization of possible spatial impacts is introduced. These include impacts on the retail industry, such as substitution of e-retail for brick-and-mortar retail, impacts on transportation, such as substitution of freight transportation for personal transportation in goods delivery, and pervasive impacts that affect the whole economy. The latter category includes uniform delivered pricing, spatial leveling of accessibility, and marketing strategies that target individuals rather than regions. The question of whether e-retailing and brick-and-mortar retailing are truly substitutes is taken up in the next section, along with potential implications of multi-channel retailing. The final section of the paper defines some critical research directions. [source] Conflict in Business-to-Business e-Commerce (B2B): A Study of B2B Relational Structure and Perceptions of Conflict, Power, and Relationship SuccessNEGOTIATION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010Rhetta L. Standifer Abstract This field study investigates how the relational structure of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce relationships affects perceptions of conflict, power, and success in e-commerce relationships. Data from interviews with employees in 82 U.S. organizations reveal that employees in community-oriented B2B structures perceive themselves as experiencing more process conflict than do employees in buyer/supplier-oriented structures. Also, employees in community-oriented B2B structures perceive more organizational power. Furthermore, the B2B e-commerce relational structure was found to moderate the relationship between perceived organizational power and the number of reported conflict incidents. Specifically, in buyer/supplier structures, power differences were associated with low conflict and in community-oriented structures power differences were associated with high levels of conflict. [source] Mapping cityscapes into cyberspace for visualizationCOMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS (PREV: JNL OF VISUALISATION & COMPUTER ANIMATION), Issue 2 2005Jiang Yu Zheng Abstract This work establishes a cyberspace of a real urban area for visiting on the Internet. By registering entire scenes along every street and at many locations, viewers can visually travel around and find their destinations in cyberspace. The issues we discuss here are mapping of a large-scale area to image domains in a small amount of data, and effective display of the captured scenes for various applications. Route Panoramas captured along streets and panoramic views captured at widely opening sites are associated to a city map to provide navigation functions. This paper focuses on the properties of our extended images,route panorama, addressing the archiving process applied to an urban area, an environment developed to transmit image data as streaming media, and display for scene traversing on the WWW in real time. The created cyberspaces of urban areas have broad applications such as city tour, real estate searching, e-commerce, heritage preservation, urban planning and construction, and vehicle navigation. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Interactive animation of cloth-like objects in virtual realityCOMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS (PREV: JNL OF VISUALISATION & COMPUTER ANIMATION), Issue 1 2001Mark Meyer Abstract Modeling and animation of cloth have experienced important developments in recent years. As a consequence, complex textile models can be used to realistically drape objects or human characters in a fairly efficient way. However, real-time realistic simulation remains a major challenge, even if applications are numerous, from rapid prototyping to e-commerce. In this paper, we present a stable, real-time algorithm for animating cloth-like materials. Using a hybrid explicit/implicit algorithm, we perform fast and stable time integration of a physically based model with rapid collision detection and response, as well as wind or liquid drag effects to enhance realism. We demonstrate our approach through a series of examples in virtual reality environments, proving that real-time animation of cloth, even on low-end computers, is now achievable. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Tax Sensitivity in Electronic Commerce,FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 4 2007Mark A. Scanlan Empirical research into the impact of taxation on e-commerce has concluded that there is a significant positive relationship between local sales tax rates and the likelihood that a person will shop online. This paper finds that the tax sensitivity for online purchases at the local level is much lower than previously estimated and is not significant under previous general models. However, by using a splined tax-rate function, this paper finds that consumers living in counties with high sales tax rates are still sensitive to tax rates when deciding whether to shop online, while those in counties with low tax rates exhibit no significant sensitivity. [source] The new economy: a cultural historyGLOBAL NETWORKS, Issue 3 2003Orvar Löfgren The focus is on the ways in which processes of culturalization became an important part of production, in such fields as e-commerce and ,the experience economy'. How was culture packaged and marketed in new ways, for example in the production of symbols, images, auras, experiences and events? I explore how the technologies of imagineering, performance, styling and design came to play important roles in this process. Other important traits of this development are discussed in a comparison with earlier examples of the emergence of ,new economies': the aesthetics and practices of speed, the cult of creativity, ,the catwalk economy' and the importance of public display and performance, as well as the importance of ,newness'. [source] User involvement in developing mobile and temporarily interconnected systemsINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 2 2010Ola Henfridsson Abstract Information systems (IS) research on user involvement has primarily theorized relationships between developers, managers and users in systems development. However, so far, marginal attention has been paid to differences in user involvement practices between information systems. This paper explores user involvement in developing mobile and temporarily interconnected systems (MTIS). We refer to MTIS as heterogeneous systems that rely on network technologies for increasing the ubiquity of information services for users on the move. Such systems are becoming increasingly important in leveraging, e.g. car infotainment, supply chain management and wireless e-commerce. With particular emphasis on the nature of MTIS and its implications for user involvement, the paper analyses the systems development process of an action research project. The findings suggest that user involvement practices need to be adapted to accommodate features of this class of systems. Being an early attempt to trace the implications of technology features such as use context switches and temporary system relationships, the paper contributes to the development of an updated theory of the user role in an era of increased system complexity and stakeholder ambiguity. [source] The effect of e-commerce on the integration of IT structure and brand architectureINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 5 2008Dr Horst Treiblmaier Abstract., A company's information technology (IT) structure and its brand architecture are intended to minimize transaction costs both within the organization and between the organization and its customers. Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce fundamentally alters the structure of those transaction costs relevant to the IT structure and the brand architecture. We conducted a survey among 102 chief information officers and chief marketing officers in 67 of the 100 most important B2C enterprises in Austria. The results show that companies typically implement a certain set of changes in the IT structure and the brand architecture if B2C e-commerce is highly important to them and that these changes result in a stronger integration within and between the IT structure and the brand architecture. B2C e-commerce projects thus require closely aligned conceptual, organizational and financial measures in both areas. [source] Relationship-based e-commerce: theory and evidence from ChinaINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2008Maris G. Martinsons Abstract., Electronic commerce models and prescriptions from rule-based market economies like the United States have limited applicability in emerging markets. This paper adopts a strategic management perspective to examine the distinctive challenges facing e-commerce in China. A theory is developed to explain how the lack of dependable rules encourages guanxi and relationship-based commerce. It suggests that personal trust, contextual and informal information, and blurred boundaries between business and government have shaped e-commerce in mainland China. Case studies of online retailers in Beijing and Shanghai and a business-to-business (B2B) marketspace reveal how dynamic business relationships with complementary service providers and state agents can overcome institutional deficiencies. Short message service (SMS)-based mobile commerce (m-commerce) and other leapfrogging information technology (IT) applications could transform Chinese consumer behaviour and improve economic efficiency. The evidence from China helps to explain the influence of culture and institutions on different types of IT applications. Implications for e-commerce research and practice in China and other emerging markets are discussed. [source] Supporting virtual organizations through constraint fusionINTELLIGENT SYSTEMS IN ACCOUNTING, FINANCE & MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2001Alun Preece The formation and operation of dynamic and open virtual organizations is a central concern in business-to-business e-commerce. Virtual organizations enable partner companies to develop and manufacture customized products with low costs and rapid delivery. Agent-based architectures are an effective platform for such virtual organizations because they provide mechanisms to allow organizations to advertise their capabilities, exchange rich information, and synchronize workflows at a high level of abstraction. In this paper, we examine the KRAFT architecture and its features for supporting virtual organizations. In particular, we focus upon KRAFT's agent-based architecture, and its use of constraints as a knowledge-exchange medium. We show how constraint fusion supports the design of customized products. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] A Model for Audit Engagement Planning of E-CommerceINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING, Issue 2 2003Jagdish Pathak The impact of networking technologies on information systems (IS) and its auditing is growing dramatically. This growth is changing the nature of information systems in the modern organization, with special reference to e-commerce. It would also be reasonable to infer that a corresponding effect is mounting on the information system's auditing function. This paper primarily stresses the identification of specific constructs which can contain the potential variables/critical success factors in audit engagement planning that contribute to the success/failure of audit engagement in e-commerce-centric technological scenario, and the same can be used to build a model for its empirical validity in future studies. The objective of this paper is to devise a model, based on the variables turned potential critical success factors to successfully perform audit engagement planning for the current state-of-the-art e-commerce technologies. The available literature is analyzed to identify appropriate candidates for factors that appear to materially affect the success of the e-commerce audit resource planning function. Based on this model, an empirical examination, though not within the scope of this paper, is the next logical step in this direction to establish the validity of this model in the technologically complex e-commerce milieu. [source] The influence of consumer decision-making styles on online apparel consumption by college studentsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSUMER STUDIES, Issue 6 2007Kelly O. Cowart Abstract Apparel purchases now constitute one of the fastest-growing segments of e-commerce. Thus, there are strong theoretical and managerial reasons to better understand consumer characteristics associated with buying apparel online. This paper investigates motivations for online apparel consumption using the Consumer Styles Inventory. Data from a sample of 357 US college students showed that quality consciousness, brand consciousness, fashion consciousness, hedonistic shopping, impulsiveness and brand loyalty were positively correlated with online apparel shopping. Price sensitivity was negatively correlated with online spending. [source] A unified logical model for CBR-based e-commerce systemsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, Issue 1 2005Zhaohao Sun This article examines new issues resulting from applying case-based reasoning (CBR) in e-commerce and proposes a unified logical model for CBR-based e-commerce systems (CECS) that consists of three cycles and covers almost all activities of applying CBR in e-commerce. This article also decomposes case adaptation into problem adaptation and solution adaptation, which not only improves the understanding of case adaptation in the traditional CBR, but also facilitates the refinement of activity of CBR in e-commerce and intelligent support for e-commerce. It then investigates CBR-based product negotiation. This article thus gives insight into how to use CBR in e-commerce and how to improve the understanding of CBR with its applications in e-commerce from a logical viewpoint. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Int Syst 20: 29,46, 2005. [source] Subsessions: A granular approach to click path analysisINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, Issue 7 2004Ernestina Menasalvas The fiercely competitive web-based electronic commerce (e-commerce) environment has made necessary the application of intelligent methods to gather and analyze information collected from consumer web sessions. Knowledge about user behavior and session goals can be discovered from the information gathered about user activities, as tracked by web clicks. Most current approaches to customer behavior analysis study the user session by examining each web page access. However, the abstraction of subsessions provides a more granular view of user activity. Here, we propose a method of increasing the granularity of the user session analysis by isolating useful subsessions within sessions. Each subsession represents a high-level user activity such as performing a purchase or searching for a particular type of information. Given a set of previously identified subsessions, we can determine at which point the user begins a preidentified subsession by tracking user clicks. With this information we can (1) optimize the user experience by precaching pages or (2) provide an adaptive user experience by presenting pages according to our estimation of the user's ultimate goal. To identify subsessions, we present an algorithm to compute frequent click paths from which subsessions then can be isolated. The algorithm functions by scanning all user sessions and extracting all frequent subpaths by using a distance function to determining subpath similarity. Each frequent subpath represents a subsession. An analysis of the pages represented by the subsession provides additional information about semantically related activities commonly performed by users. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] OECD Efforts to Address the Measurement and Policy Challenges Posed by the Information SocietyINTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL REVIEW, Issue 1 2003Andrew W. Wyckoff Summary The OECD has acted as a forum for the discussion of policies regarding the information society for over 20-years, producing guidelines and recommendations in areas such as privacy of personal information, computer security, cryptography, regulatory reform of communications, and most recently on-line consumer protection and the taxation of e-commerce. By and large, this work was undertaken without the benefit of statistical measures. But the economic performance of a number of OECD Member countries during the 1990s underscores that the policy challenges being posed by the information society are increasingly economic in nature,how ICT is affecting productivity, growth rates, inflation, labour markets etc.,necessitating the need for statistically rigorous data. This paper outlines how recent efforts by national statistical offices to improve this situation have allowed researchers to gain new insight into the economic impact associated with ICTs and applications like e-commerce, leading to a number of policy recommendations as to how best to exploit the economic potential of these technologies. The paper ends by outlining important policy issues that require new statistical efforts. Résumé L'OCDE offre aux gouvernements depuis plus de 20 ans un cadre de discussion sur les questions liées à la société de l'Information et propose des lignes directrices ainsi que des recommandations sur des sujets tels que la vie privée et l'informatique, la sécurité informatique, la cryptographie, la réforme réglementaire en matière de communications et, plus récemment, la protection des consommateurs en-ligne et la fiscalité en matière de commerce électronique. Jusqu'ici, ce travail a été plus ou moins accompli sans le bénéfice d'études statistiques approfondies. Cependant, à en juger des performances économiques d'un certain nombre de pays membres de l'OCDE au cours des années 90, il est évident que les problèmes auxquels est confrontée la société de l'Information ont un caractère de plus en plus économique,l'impact des technologies de l'information et des communications sur la productivité, les taux de croissance, l'inflation, le marché de l'emploi, etc.,et nécessitent des statistiques fiables. Le présent document explique comment les offices nationaux des statistiques ont contribué par leurs efforts à améliorer la situation en donnant aux chercheurs les moyens de mieux comprendre l'impact des technologies de l'information et des communications (TIC), notamment du commerce électronique, sur l'économie. Enfin, ce travail a abouti à un certain nombre de recommandations sur la meilleure façon pour les pouvoirs publics d'exploiter le potentiel économique de ces technologies. La dernière partie du document met en exergue des problèmes importants liés à la politique économique qui nécessitent de nouveaux efforts en matière de statistiques. [source] Enforced Standards Versus Evolution by General Acceptance: A Comparative Study of E-Commerce Privacy Disclosure and Practice in the United States and the United KingdomJOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH, Issue 1 2005KARIM JAMAL ABSTRACT We present data on privacy practices in e-commerce under the European Union's formal regulatory regime prevailing in the United Kingdom and compare it with the data from a previous study of U.S. practices that evolved in the absence of government laws or enforcement. The codification by the E.U. law, and the enforcement by the U.K. government, improves neither the disclosure nor the practice of e-commerce privacy relative to the United States. Regulation in the United Kingdom also appears to stifle development of a market for Web assurance services. Both U.S. and U.K. consumers continue to be vulnerable to a small number of e-commerce Web sites that spam their customers, ignoring the latter's expressed or implied preferences. These results raise important questions about finding a balance between enforced standards and conventions in financial reporting. In the second half of the 20th century, financial reporting has been characterized by both a preference for legislated standards and a lack of faith in its evolution as a body of social conventions. Evidence on whether this faith in standards over conventions is justified remains to be marshaled. [source] Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback MachineJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2008Jamie Murphy Although fields such as e-commerce, information systems, and computer-mediated communication (CMC) acknowledge the importance of validity, validating research tools or measures in these domains seems the exception rather than the rule. This article extends the concept of validation to one of an emerging genre of web-based tools that provide new measures, the Wayback Machine (WM). Drawing in part on social science tests of validity, the study progresses from testing for and demonstrating the weakest form of validity, face validity, to the more demanding tests for content, predictive, and convergent validity. Finally, the study tests and shows nomological validity, using the diffusion of innovations theory. In line with prior diffusion research, the results of tests for predictive and nomological validity showed significant relationships with organizational characteristics and two WM measures: website age and number of updates. The results help validate these measures and demonstrate the utility of the WM for studying evolving website use. [source] The Effects of Consumer Risk Perception on Pre-purchase Information in Online Auctions: Brand, Word-of-Mouth, and Customized InformationJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2002Hong-Youl Ha This study examines how consumer information processing affects consumers' perception of risk prior to purchase. In particular, this research focuses on pre-purchase information such as brand, word-of-mouth, and customized information. The results show that customized information and word-of-mouth communication influence consumers more than do other types of information from online auctions. Consumers rely on these two factors because they are based on consumer experience and relevant to product purchase. Nevertheless, brand also has a significant effect upon consumer perceived risk. Pre-purchase information processing is directly related to reducing consumers' risk perception. In particular, information processing associated with product performance plays a crucial role in reducing consumers' perceived risk in online transactions. The results offer insights to e-marketers and e-marketing researchers about the role of pre-purchase information in management and e-commerce. [source] User Behavior and the "Globalness" of Internet: From a Taiwan Users' PerspectiveJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 2 2002Chun Chou Liu It is believed that the cyberworld knows no borders and boundaries. Users from all corners of the world are connected. However, the literature stops short of telling us how meaningful and valuable its "borderless" nature actually is to the Internet users themselves. Have they taken full advantage of whatever freedom is available to them in roaming the cyberworld? Do they venture beyond their language and/or cultural group to interact with those whoM they normally would have little opportunity to meet otherwise? To what extent do they take advantage of the opportunity to venture beyond the limits of their "real" worlds? Taiwan houses one of the most vigorous information industries in the world. This paper looks at the general patterns of Internet use in Taiwan, including online activities for communication, information access, and e-commerce. Secondly, a special effort is made to examine the "globalness" of Taiwan users' Internet behavior, and the factors contributing to these patterns of use. In Taiwan, the Internet as a medium may indeed be "global," yet the user continues to live within the "local," the "place" one relates to, where his/her needs and desires are generated, and where one feels a sense of belonging. One may briefly venture out of this locality to accomplish a task, fulfill a goal, or simply satisfy his/her curiosity; however, as pointed out by Wang and Servaes (2000), the importance, significance, and relevance of the global are not as great as that of the local. [source] Computer Mediated Markets: An Introduction and Preliminary Test of Market Structure ImpactsJOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, Issue 3 2000Charles Steinfield Electronic commerce may influence the way in which goods are traded between businesses. Many believe that Internet-based business-to-business e-commerce will reduce the extent to which firms buying goods and services are "locked in" to a single supplier. Using a secondary analysis of data collected in late 1996 on firms' use of electronic networks for transactions, we empirically test the effects of Internet use on buyer lock-in. Results are weak, but suggest that using the Internet rather than proprietary computer networks in connecting with external trading partners appears to lessen a buying firm's dependence on its primary supplier. The Internet seems to be especially valuable in allowing small firms to connect to external constituents. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||