A Cross-Regional Exploration of Barriers to the Adoption and Use of Electronic Meeting Systems

Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS) are intended to support group collaboration in completing tasks. While there have been many case studies and laboratory experiments on how EMS can support group tasks, large scale macro investigations exploring EMS adoption and use have been practically non-existent. Furthermore, while several barriers to EMS adoption and use have been suggested, their validation across organizations remains unexplored. We undertook a global initiative to explore information technology support for task-oriented collaboration in the US, Australia, Hong Kong, and Norway. In this paper, we focus specifically on assessing the adoption and use of EMS, and barriers to their adoption and use in organizations across the four regions. Our results suggest that EMS currently have limited adoption and are used infrequently across all the four regions. A further investigation into barriers to EMS adoption and use suggests that significant numbers of respondents do agree with a list of fourteen suggested barriers. However, while there is significant agreement between two countries (US & Australia) over how these barriers are ranked, there is no significant agreement between the remaining pairs of countries. Implications of our findings are discussed for practitioners and researchers.     

A Software Implementation of Kimbrough's Disquotation Theory for Representing and Enforcing Electronic Commerce Contracts

Kimbrough's Disquotation Theory, a formal theory about sentences that embed propositional content, expounds the fulfillment and violation conditions for speech acts such as asserting, permitting, and obliging. This paper aims to show how the theory can be profitably applied to the creation of computational environments for monitoring and enforcing electronic commerce contracts using pervasive, mainstream industrial technologies such as Java and relational databases. We examine the notion of an occurrence and provide a structural representation of this abstraction. We show how contractual provisions – obligations, permissions, prohibitions, and powers – can be stored, monitored, and enforced. A query overlap determination mechanism is applied to the problem of monitoring occurrences and analyzing contractual provisions for conflicts. The work presented here demonstrates that, with certain alterations, Kimbrough's theory presents a promising means of storing interrogable and executable specifications for e-commerce workflow applications.     

论电子签名立法的若干问题

随着电子商务的快速发展,电子签名已成为保障电子交易安全的必不可少的工具。但是,电子签名的立法目前还处于相对滞后的阶段。在国际上许多国家,国际组织纷纷对此立法的情况下,我国也相继出台了一些法规对此进行规定,但仍需要进一步的完善。因此,从分析电子签名这一技术入手,对有关国家,国际组织的立法进行分析比较,进而推进我国电子签名立法的早日出台。     

信息搭台物流唱戏

现代物流信息化的必然性和信息化在现代物流中作用越来越重要、我们开发新的现代物流信息管理系统应用于我国实际,解决我国现代物流信息化中的问题。     

我国中小企业电子商务存在问题及对策

随着互联网以及各项相关技术的日趋成熟,电子商务在社会经济领域得到了广泛的应用。在电子商务中,用户可将自己的各类意愿按照一定的格式输入电子商务网络,可进行多种网上交易业务的选择。电子商务为中小企业提供了新的发展契机。进行信息网络建设,抢占市场,抓住机遇,是中小企业获得竞争优势的关键。     

我国外贸企业电子商务建设势在必行

随着Internet网被引进商贸活动,电子信息技术在企业商贸活动中得到了迅速的发展。当企业按照一定的标准,通过各种网络手段开展商务活动时,就将实现企业主要业务在计算机网络平台上与企业的员工以及合作伙伴之间的交互,这其间发生的各种活动就是电子商务。电子商务作为一种崭新的商务运作模式,将给人类带来一次史无前例的产业革命。     

我国第三方物流发展问题及对策研究

本文从第三方物流的概念入手,深入剖析了我国第三方物流存在的主要问题,如市场需求不足、企业规模小、物流人才短缺、设备落后等,并在此基础上提出了具体的解决办法。     

知识经济时代的网络营销

２０世纪下半叶，世界经济正在从工业经济向知识经济转变，这一转变使企业营销环境也大为改变，导致网络营销产生。我国企业为加快知识经济时代的网络营销，必须从思想上对网络营销竞争意识的重视，实施有效的营销策略组合，完善金融安全认证体系，在实施过程中不断去发展与创新。     

新审计准则下的数据式审计风险评估与控制

重大错报风险主要来源于被审计单位财务信息系统层次和系统内部控制层次的重大错报风险。通过对数据式审计风险评估的过程及评估时应考虑的各种因素进行详尽的阐述,以期寻求评估重大错报风险和降低检查风险的有效控制措施。应加强电子数据采集的准确性和完整性,建立动态数据分析模型,提高数据式审计的技术,建立建全数据审计的理论和标准,加强审计人员的培训。     

面向再制造的废旧电子产品回收定价和收入共享契约研究

考虑由制造商、分销商和零售商组成的废旧电子产品回收再制造三级闭环供应链。首先在分散决策和集中决策两种情况下,对零售商分别基于自身利润最大化和供应链整体利润最大化建立了数学模型,得到了零售商回收废旧电子产品的最优定价,随后针对再制造产品建立了收入共享契约模型,并对收入共享契约参数进行了求解。