Showing papers in "Electronic Commerce Research and Applications in 2008"

TL;DR: The elaboration likelihood model is used to explain the persuasive effect of the proportion and quality depending on product involvement, which shows that as the proportion of negative online consumer reviews increases, high-involvement consumers tend to conform to the perspective of reviewers, depending on the quality of the negativeOnline consumer reviews.

TL;DR: A framework of four contingency and five competitive force factors is proposed, and the mobile payment research is organized under the proposed framework to facilitate the analysis of literature.

TL;DR: The results show that the effect of cognitive fit (the type of reviews) on purchase intention is stronger for experts than for novices while the effect

TL;DR: Investigating what consequences the tradeoff between two roles has on purchasing intention depending on consumer involvement finds consumers have more favorable attitude toward a product as a greater number of positive reviews are offered.

TL;DR: This article examines a new technology application which is coming into its own around the world, in association with the revolution in wireless connectivity: mobile payments and applies a robust evaluative framework that permits identification of the relevant stakeholders and applicable theory in the analysis of consumer, firm, business process, market, industrial and social issues.

TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to shed light on multiple issues associated with service-oriented technologies and management by examining several interrelated questions: why is it appropriate now to study the related business problems from the point of view of services research?

TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed novel personalized approach can effectively model trustworthiness for both advisors and sellers, even when there are large numbers of unfair ratings.

TL;DR: A conceptual model of music download is presented by looking at and integrating these seldom noticed perspectives with traditional explanations and found that moral reasoning moderate the relationships among fashion involvement, consumption value, and behavioral intention to download music.

TL;DR: A practical protocol based on homomorphic cryptography for conducting provably fair sealed-bid auctions that preserves the secrecy of the bids, even after the announcement of auction results, while also providing for public verifiability of the correctness and trustworthiness of the outcome.

TL;DR: The role of various groups formed to generate standardised solutions for mobile payments is described and the role of these groups and how they influence the development of mobile payments are analyzed.

TL;DR: This paper offers a more complete explanation of changes in consumer behavior, based on consumers' new-found informedness, and an understanding of consumers' pursuit of products that truly meet their individual wants and needs, cravings and longings.

TL;DR: The scope of this paper is to explore, analyze and develop a universal architecture that supports mobile payments and mobile banking, taking into consideration the third and the emerging fourth generation communication technologies.

TL;DR: The paper develops a set of seven reference models that can classify any given mobile payment use case or mobile payment procedure and analyze it with regard to the business model, the roles of the market participants, and their interrelation from a value-based perspective.

TL;DR: The empirical data analyses suggest that online transaction volumes of Taobao sellers demonstrate many stochastic properties similar to those on eBay with some distinguishing properties, such as a faster growth rate but a lower concentration trend.

TL;DR: The deployment of computer-readable privacy policies encoded using the standard W3C platform for privacy preferences (P3P) format is studied to inform questions about P3P's usefulness to end users and researchers and it is found that P 3P adoption is increasing overall and that P2P adoption rates greatly vary across industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how users' skills and network effects may influence the market where proprietary software competes with open source software and found that in the presence of network effects, the proprietary software dominates the market when the open source Software does not provide higher benefits to users.

TL;DR: It is argued that a nationwide public-key infrastructure supported by governmental bodies can be used in a mobile payment system that provides strong security and makes the system open to any mobile user, merchant, or financial service provider.

TL;DR: This work develops a new theoretical conceptualization that views P2P file-sharing networks as electronic markets and shows how they have migrated through a series of system typologies by incorporating technological innovations in response to market constraints.

TL;DR: This model shows that buying organizations consider a broad set of financial, operational, as well as strategic e-sourcing outcomes, and that, under certain conditions, the traditional trade-off in electronic reverse auctions between price savings and the buyer-supplier relationship does not hold.

TL;DR: A simulation-based approach supporting experimentation with the efficiency and reliability of Web service orchestrations in supply chains prior to implementation are presented.

TL;DR: This paper describes the experiences in developing a new e-commerce protocol based on a novel cryptographic technique and shows how to use common off-the-shelf software components to develop such a protocol.

TL;DR: Investors' valuations of the returns to electronic commerce initiatives were significantly influenced by the market return from prior periods, and the relative weight placed on prior periods' returns decreased as the variance of the prior period' returns increased.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the number of account holders, the extent of education and tourism, network service coverage, and market concentration in local markets are drivers of the observed state-to-nation co-movement.

TL;DR: This paper presents a comprehensive ontology framework that allows the specification of bids for Web-based markets by expressing utility function policies with a logic-based and standardized formalism and enables a compact bid representation particularly for highly configurable goods and services while ensuring a high degree of interoperability.

TL;DR: A prototype for making WAP portals adaptive, which reduces time spend by consumers in navigation henceforth more time for content browsing and uses weighted computation to achieve adaptation that will be of relevance to consumers at any point of time.

TL;DR: The results show that agents using TD-based reinforcement learning are able to achieve good bargaining performance, and this learning approach is sufficiently robust and convenient, hence it is suitable for online automated bargaining in electronic commerce.

TL;DR: An ontology for representing soft CSPs and their solutions is described, allowing an agent's set of commitments to be expressed as a collection of soft constraints, allowing commitment to be communicated and exchanged among the members of a virtual organisation.

TL;DR: A market-based allocation framework to complement existing network protocols in a scalable and feasible manner and leads to the NP-hard problem of computation of Steiner arborescences, and the outline feasible solution heuristics are outlined.