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Introduction of Vol. 2, No. 1
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 2 (2003) 1 www.elsevier.com / locate / ecra
Introduction of Vol. 2, No. 1 This issue includes the Special Section of Five Best Papers selected from the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Hong Kong, 23–25 October 2002: http: / / www.is.cityu.edu.hk / icec2002 /. This section is guest edited by Professor Louis Ma ([email protected]) and Robert Davison ([email protected]) in the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. The selected proceedings papers have been reviewed again and revised to fit to the standard of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications in terms of quality and format. The five papers in this special section of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications reflect the need to build on our collective e-business experience, as well as demonstrate critical success factors for succeeding in the new waves of e-business. The special section consists of the following papers. • Hillier draws on evidence from the anthropological, worldview and systems design literature to show how culture and context play a significant role in the way individuals perceive and approach their interaction with a multilingual e-commerce website. This is important because of the relationship between culture, language and web site usability. • Huang and Chung propose a service composition framework that can support a Web servicesbased approach for the development of a variety of business integration solutions. This is a valuable contribution, given the incompatibility, inefficiency and lack of reliability in existing approaches to these solutions.
• Rolfe, Gregor and Menzies explore the use of Internet-based computing by landholders in rural Australia, with an intention to understand the motivational factors associated with a marked increase in usage. Their specific focus involves the grains and beef industries of the Central Queensland region. • Hung, Ku and Chang investigate critical factors associated with the adoption of WAP services in mobile commerce in Taiwan. Their empirical study involves a comparison of WAP adopters and non-adopters, and employs a theoretical model derived from the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Innovation Diffusion Theory. • Tung, Debreceny, Chan, Chan and Le undertake an empirical investigation into web navigation tools that rely on hypertext. This is an important area for research, given the potential driving force that navigational tools can exert on the development of e-commerce more generally. In addition to the above five papers, two papers accepted from the regular submissions are included in this issue. One estimates the information value (by Hyung S. Lee, Kwangtae Park, and Sang Y. Kim); the other studies the e-customer behavior by a stochastic model (by Mamata Jenamani, Pratap K.J. Mohapartra, and Sujoy Ghose).
1567-4223 / 03 / $ – see front matter 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016 / S1567-4223(03)00011-5
Jae Kyu Lee Co-ordinating editor in chief
Introduction of Vol. 2, No. 1 This issue includes the Special Section of Five Best Papers selected from the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Hong Kong, 23–25 October 2002: http: / / www.is.cityu.edu.hk / icec2002 /. This section is guest edited by Professor Louis Ma ([email protected]) and Robert Davison ([email protected]) in the Department of Information Systems at City University of Hong Kong. The selected proceedings papers have been reviewed again and revised to fit to the standard of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications in terms of quality and format. The five papers in this special section of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications reflect the need to build on our collective e-business experience, as well as demonstrate critical success factors for succeeding in the new waves of e-business. The special section consists of the following papers. • Hillier draws on evidence from the anthropological, worldview and systems design literature to show how culture and context play a significant role in the way individuals perceive and approach their interaction with a multilingual e-commerce website. This is important because of the relationship between culture, language and web site usability. • Huang and Chung propose a service composition framework that can support a Web servicesbased approach for the development of a variety of business integration solutions. This is a valuable contribution, given the incompatibility, inefficiency and lack of reliability in existing approaches to these solutions.
• Rolfe, Gregor and Menzies explore the use of Internet-based computing by landholders in rural Australia, with an intention to understand the motivational factors associated with a marked increase in usage. Their specific focus involves the grains and beef industries of the Central Queensland region. • Hung, Ku and Chang investigate critical factors associated with the adoption of WAP services in mobile commerce in Taiwan. Their empirical study involves a comparison of WAP adopters and non-adopters, and employs a theoretical model derived from the Theory of Planned Behaviour and Innovation Diffusion Theory. • Tung, Debreceny, Chan, Chan and Le undertake an empirical investigation into web navigation tools that rely on hypertext. This is an important area for research, given the potential driving force that navigational tools can exert on the development of e-commerce more generally. In addition to the above five papers, two papers accepted from the regular submissions are included in this issue. One estimates the information value (by Hyung S. Lee, Kwangtae Park, and Sang Y. Kim); the other studies the e-customer behavior by a stochastic model (by Mamata Jenamani, Pratap K.J. Mohapartra, and Sujoy Ghose).
1567-4223 / 03 / $ – see front matter 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016 / S1567-4223(03)00011-5
Jae Kyu Lee Co-ordinating editor in chief