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Environment and policy factors shaping global e-commerce diffusion: A cross-country comparison
University of California, Irvine, USA, 2002
This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison of case studies from 10 countries-Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. It finds that B2B e-commerce seems to be driven by global forces, whereas B2C seems to be more of a local phenomenon. A preliminary explanation for this difference is that B2B is driven by global competition and MNCs that "push" e-commerce to their global suppliers, customers, and subsidiaries. This in turn creates pressures on local companies to adopt e-commerce to stay competitive. In contrast, B2C is "pulled" by consumer markets, which are mainly local and therefore divergent. While all consumers desire convenience and low prices, consumer preferences and values, national culture, and distribution systems differ markedly across countries and define differences in local consumer markets. These findings support the transformation perspective about globalization and its impacts. In terms of policy, the case studies suggest that enabling policies such as trade and telecommunications liberalization are likely to have the biggest impact on e-commerce, by making ICT and Internet access more affordable to firms and consumers, and increasing pressure on firms to adopt e-commerce to compete. Specific e-commerce legislation appears not to have as big an impact, although inadequate protection for both buyers and sellers in some countries suggests that mechanisms need to be developed to ensure greater confidence in doing business online.
Globalization and E-Commerce: Growth and Impacts in Brazil
Center For Research on Information Technology and Organizations, 2001
This paper provides a broad overview of the likely global/regional contextual factors and unique national characteristics that influence e-commerce diffusion and innovation in Singapore. Our analysis suggests that: • Singapore is likely to be a very fast adopter of e-commerce applications that have relatively proven economic value model in other advanced countries. • In particular, advanced manufacturing industrial clusters in Singapore with strong global supply chain links to advanced countries (like electronics and aerospace), logistics and transportation industries, and other global market oriented, business-to-business industries are likely to be the most aggressive in adopting e-commerce applications. • In contrast, we predict that Singapore will be less able to innovate new e-commerce technologies or pioneer revolutionary e-commerce applications with radical global impacts, due to the small local market and the inadequate development of an ICT entrepreneurial community with extensive networks in Silicon Valley and other hotspots like the wireless technology hubs in Sweden and Finland. • Singapore is also unlikely to be a leader in large-scale business-to-consumer e-commerce applications and mass consumer contents publishing. The only possible exception is "e-Government" applications. • Our review of government policy initiatives to promote e-commerce suggests that although they are by and large in the right direction, they are unlikely to have significant impact until proven e-commerce models have emerged and competitive pressure starts to be felt by companies. • We have also identified a number of areas where government policy initiatives have been less effective, notably in making the telecommunications services sector more competitive and innovative, and in promoting regional cooperation. • Our review of the available empirical evidence on recent e-commerce diffusion trends and patterns, although preliminary due to the lack of sufficient time-series data, appears to be consistent with the above analysis. • A preliminary assessment of the likely socioeconomic impacts of future e-commerce developments in Singapore is also provided, highlighting likely increasing industry consolidation in globally oriented industries, increasing social inequalities, and changing government-citizen relationships.
Globalization and E-commerce VI: Environment and Policy in Denmark
2004
The diffusion of e-commerce in Denmark is mainly a result of a partnership between government and industry initiatives, rather than being purely market-or government-led. While environmental factors are important enablers of e-commerce diffusion, government policy aims to be a key driving force.
Globalization and E-Commerce V: Environment and Policy in Brazil
• The use of the Internet as a business tool is most advanced in information-related sectors such as finance, communications, information services, and other services that can easily be digitized. The banking sector leads e-commerce diffusion, followed by government and retailing. • Consumers in countries such as Brazil are increasingly demanding products from Web sites located in their own countries. To succeed in the Brazilian e-commerce market, multinational Internet companies need to invest in local content and distribution networks. • Although the diffusion of the Internet presents many opportunities for social development, notably in the fields of education, health, and information, the future growth of ecommerce in Brazil may be limited by social and economic factors such as income level, income distribution, and education.
International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2007
A number of studies have been conducted on e-commerce and other technology adoption. However, most of these studies have been conducted in developed countries. Developing countries have been slow in fitting into the global digital market. This study attempts to take a comprehensive look at e-commerce development in a developing country, Botswana, which has a very good and well managed economy. The results of the study show that environmental factors affecting the adoption of e-commerce include the internet marketing factor and customer/logistic factor. Though security factor is an issue, it is not statistically significant because other factors, especially organisational such as management support, information availability and communications impact on the organisation's intention and ability to adopt e-commerce. Firm size and gender also affect the intention to and ability to adopt e-commerce.
E-Commerce Sorting Out the Environmental Consequences
The environmental effects of e-commerce may be described in terms of first-, second-, and third-order effects. Data for these effects are scarce, partly because research on environmental effects of e-commerce and e-business is still in its infancy , although it is evolving very rapidly. Until now, positive environmental consequences of e-commerce have generally been coincidental. Two crucial questions that must be addressed are (1) How do we improve our understanding and management of the environmental effects of e-commerce? and (2) Which approaches are best suited to the development of sustainable e-solutions? Three approaches to developing sustainable e-commerce solutions are discussed: the extension of environmental performance measurement and management to e-commerce activities, the use of new cooperative forms of innovation management, and the provision of customer choice. Finally, an outlook on future research demands is presented. The technology itself (information and communication technologies, Internet) does not determine sustainability, but rather its design, use, and regulation does.
Building off of the new institutional economics and e-commerce adoption literatures, we conduct a crosscountry analysis assessing the impact and effect of national information ecology on global e-commerce adoption in the years of 2003 and 2007, respectively. We utilize a secondary dataset from the Global E-readiness Rankings of the Economist Intelligence Unit, which evaluated information environments and e-commerce adoption in major economies around the world. The results of the analysis indicate that at the infant stage of e-commerce, supportive government policies, effective legal environment and compatible socio-cultural infrastructure were powerful facilitators of e-commerce adoption. As e-commerce becomes more prevalent, supportive government policies and socio-cultural infrastructure foster e-commerce activities, while the effect of the legal environments becomes negligible. The study presents evidence that national information ecologies, shaped by various institutional environment factors, exert influence on a country's e-commerce adoption at different stages of e-commerce development. It is one of the first cross-country studies on the relationship between national institutional environments and e-commerce adoption and the research findings have managerial and policy implications for global e-commerce development.
The impact of globalization in connection with the development of e-commerce
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021
Research background: Globalization encourages increased involvement of retailers, and the market currently provides these entities with a new range of purchasing functions. The new economy is based primarily on information and knowledge, so the key to success is the ability to constantly improve and respond to changing market conditions and increasing customer requirements. The Internet thus becomes an integral part of our lives. It is a tool that makes our lives better. The expansion of the global information network Internet has created space for a new kind of business. It brings benefits to all e-commerce entities. For this reason, its popularity is growing exponentially. The negative experience caused by financial fraud, misuse of sensitive data, the unreliability of business partners, and the like is also growing. Purpose of the article: The basic purpose of the article is the fact that the development of e-commerce is one of the important conditions for maintaining and increas...