Browsing by Subject "e-commerce"

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Couldn't or Wouldn't? the Influence of Privacy Concerns and Self-Efficacy in Privacy Management on Privacy Protection
(2015-01) Chen, Hsuan-Ting; Chen, Wenhong; Chen, Wenhong
Sampling 515 college students, this study investigates how privacy protection, including profile visibility, self-disclosure, and friending, are influenced by privacy concerns and efficacy regarding one's own ability to manage privacy settings, a factor that researchers have yet to give a great deal of attention to in the context of social networking sites (SNSs). The results of this study indicate an inconsistency in adopting strategies to protect privacy, a disconnect from limiting profile visibility and friending to self-disclosure. More specifically, privacy concerns lead SNS users to limit their profile visibility and discourage them from expanding their network. However, they do not constrain self-disclosure. Similarly, while self-efficacy in privacy management encourages SNS users to limit their profile visibility, it facilitates self-disclosure. This suggests that if users are limiting their profile visibility and constraining their friending behaviors, it does not necessarily mean they will reduce self-disclosure on SNSs because these behaviors are predicted by different factors. In addition, the study finds an interaction effect between privacy concerns and self-efficacy in privacy management on friending. It points to the potential problem of increased risk-taking behaviors resulting from high self-efficacy in privacy management and low privacy concerns.
E-Commerce Japanese Style
(IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-09) Katoh, Masanobu
Presentation to the Japan Industry and Management of Technology Program (JIMT) on electronic commerce in Japan, how it is different from e-commerce in the US, and the challenges that foreign companies face entering the e-commerce market in Japan.
The Internet and Manufacturing
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997-10) Chapman, Gary
Commercialization of the Internet has been one of the hottest topics around the world in recent years. The growth of this medium and the new capabilities deliverable on the World Wide Web has excited entrepreneurs, transforming some of them into multimillionaires overnight. There has been an explosion of new firms experimenting with “electronic commerce,” or commercial transactions over the Internet. Most of these ventures are in industries, such as the service or publishing industries that rely on information delivery. But what about manufacturing? This topic has been neglected in the popular press and surveys show that many manufacturers are unsure whether the Internet will play an important part in their business.
Internet Marketing: Advertising as Information
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-02) Wilcox, Gary
At the beginning of this century, a new advertising industry came of age in the United States. Now, at the turn of the 21st century, new global media and audiences are reshaping this industry and the advertising we see. The next frontier is worldwide, and the new media are as open-ended as cyberspace.
On-line Recycling: Waste/Material Exchange in the Electronic Information Age
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-04) Dioun, Mina M.
In recent years, public concern for environmental quality, high compliance and disposal costs, and reduction of landfill space has prompted many manufacturers and businesses to consider recycling or selling their wastes and to use recycled materials in their processes or activities. A major concern is finding buyers and sellers for these materials. Enter Waste/Material Exchanges. WEXes are partnerships between business and government to bring seller and buyer together. Most WEXes list all kinds of materials and products at no cost to the seller. Such services are especially helpful for small manufacturers who often lack access to information.
Small Business in the Electronic Marketplace: A Blueprint for Survival
(Bureau of Business Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 1999-12) Ba, Sulin; Whinston, Andrew B.; Zhang, Han
The digital economy is made possible by the World Wide Web is growing at an astounding rate. Digital products can be assembled, customized, and packaged in almost an infinite number of ways to meet changing customer demands for instant delivery. Over time, the sale and transmission of goods and services electronically likely will be the largest and most visible driver of the new digital economy. How can small digital companies survive in such an economy?
The Regulatory and Technological Development of Chinese E-commerce in Response to the Global Pandemic
(2021-05) Guerrero, Francisca
This past year, there has been an explosive growth in e-commerce due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and China has capitalized on this more than other countries. Its GDP grew in 2019 while that of other major economies declined. This is because today’s Chinese economy can be traced to Mao Era government regulations and a Chinese Open Door Policy that ushered in outside knowledge which the government is now trying to cultivate by turning inward and focusing on national spending and growth. The Open Door Policy ‘opened’ China to foreign investments and scientific modernization leading to mass urbanization and reforms experimentally applied in SEZs that spurred industrialization. This industrialization has supported China’s transformation from a capital-oriented economy toward a knowledge-based economy. As a result, before the pandemic, China already exhibited features of an e-commerce economy such as e-payments, platforms for connecting businesses to suppliers, e-retail malls, and personalized customer service and experience. These features have benefited large technology companies like Alibaba and Tencent that now drive Chinese e-commerce by giving them access to large ‘data inflows’; however, this has also taken away government and personal privacy control. Given this background, Chinese e-commerce pre-pandemic was poised for growth in national consumption, and post-pandemic short-term and long-term changes in its e-commerce also promise future economic growth. A major part of this growth has been the government’s proactive efforts through infrastructure investments, business incentives, and overall policies to stimulate e-commerce spending which has meant uneven growth and some setbacks for China, yet also GDP growth in 2020. In this way, through overview, investigation, and analysis of a wide variety of resources such as journal articles, magazine articles, current online news articles, books, and my own internship research experience, this thesis gives the reader an understanding of China’s current e-commerce economy as well as how it may change moving forward, especially as global post-pandemic e-commerce continues to unfold.