This research explores the use of internet, in particular World Wide Web, by businesses in Hong Kong to promote and sell their products and services. Content analysis of Web pages and selected interviews are used to g...This research explores the use of internet, in particular World Wide Web, by businesses in Hong Kong to promote and sell their products and services. Content analysis of Web pages and selected interviews are used to gain insight into the role of internet in marketing channels, the prodeuct/service variety offered and transaction formats provided on the Net. It is found that most of the Hong Kong businesses engaging in internet commerce have the following characteristics: (l ) using internet to supplement their regular marketing channels; (2) having a local market focus; (3) concentrating on certain product categories; and (4) offering licited product varieties on -- line. These characterishcs may be explained by Hong Kong’s special environmental factors. In addition, cultural reasons, current and potential internet commerce customers in Hong Kong may belong to a rather small segment of the general population.展开更多
The booming live-streaming commerce has significantly changed the traditional e-commerce model,thus attracting much attention from both industry and academia.In recent years,an increasing number of scholars have appli...The booming live-streaming commerce has significantly changed the traditional e-commerce model,thus attracting much attention from both industry and academia.In recent years,an increasing number of scholars have applied analytical models to explore live-streaming strategies for firms in different scenarios.However,the previous literature mainly considers monopolists,while in the real world,competition is not rare.To fill this gap between the literature and practical observations,this paper applies a game theoretical model to study live-streaming adoption and pricing strategy for firms under competitive environments.The results show that,for competitive firms,the equilibrium strategy depends on the relation between the commission rate and the intensity of the market expansion effect.Additionally,compared to the case in which no firm adopts live-streaming,competitive firms do not always benefit from the adoption of live-streaming selling.The paper also shows that competition plays a negative role in inducing a firm to adopt live-streaming.展开更多
This paper provides an overview of using Enterprise JavaBeans to build an e-business system. First, the authors point out some difficulties during building an e-business sy stem. For example, how can we integrate all ...This paper provides an overview of using Enterprise JavaBeans to build an e-business system. First, the authors point out some difficulties during building an e-business sy stem. For example, how can we integrate all kinds of software and hardware i n company quickly and economically Then the authors introduce a representative EJB structure and currently EJB deve loping approaches. A representative EJB structure includes an EJB Server, EJB Co ntainers, EJB Clients and JNDI etc. An EJB Server is similar to CORBA ORB. It pr ovides system services such as original implementing environment, multiprocessin g, workload management, equipment accessing, JTS and JNDI service and making the EJB Container visible. The EJB Container plays the role of interface between th e EJB and others. An EJB Client never accesses Bean directly. There are two kind s of containers. One is session contain, it mainly includes brief, impermanent E JB(thus all statuses will not be saved). The other is entity container which inc luding permanent EJB. The EJB Client uses EJB Beans. First it finds EJB Containe r through JNDI interface. Then it transfers EJB methods using EJB Container. Current, EJB developing approaches include several major aspects such as develop ment, deployment, application programs assembling and management of Enterprise B ean etc. Above all, we should define three classes, Bean class, home interface c lass of Bean and remote interface class of Bean. Then we should create a deploym ent descriptor. This is an XML documentation, which declared the properties of E nterprise Bean and bound the class documentations of Bean(including stub documen tation and skeleton documentation). And then we put these deployments into a jar documentation and define environment properties in the deployer. Next, we shoul d assemble application programs including install Enterprise Beans to server and test the connecting of each ties. The program assembler integrates several Ente rprise Beans with other beans(like Servlet, Applet, Script etc) into an integrat ed application program. It also may integrate several Enterprise Beans into a co mplicated Enterprise Bean. Of cause we also need to manage the Enterprise Bean. In the end, the authors point out several major advantages of using EJB to build e-business system such as simplifying application development and deployment, supporting heterogeneous client and server platforms, leveraging existing skills and assets, delivering a secure, scalable, reliable and manageable environment and providing the freedom to implement using many vendors’ products.展开更多
The developing market of information technologies i s the most dynamical and thriving business in the modern world. The law of supply and demand establishes repeating, steady cause and effect relation between three ec...The developing market of information technologies i s the most dynamical and thriving business in the modern world. The law of supply and demand establishes repeating, steady cause and effect relation between three economic phenomena-price, supply and demand. Demand is an ideal need and a real opportunity of the customer to buy the goods. Supply is an ideal readiness and a real opportunity of the commodity producer to put the goods on the market . A plethora of factors affect the supply and demand. There is inverse dependenc e between the market price of the goods and the quantity which is in the demand. There is direct dependence between the market price of the goods and the qu antity which is offered to the buyer. The following features distinguish the sof tware from the usual goods in the consumer market: high science intensity, simpl icity of replicating, relative simplicity of modification and updating, high req uirements to quality of the software, at sale the buyer gets it, but it does no t disappear in sale, there is no physical deterioration, but there is a fast ob solescence. To protect the programs against the non-authorized access (the copy ings and operation) technical and legal methods are used: the patent protection, status of industrial secret, license agreements.展开更多
文摘This research explores the use of internet, in particular World Wide Web, by businesses in Hong Kong to promote and sell their products and services. Content analysis of Web pages and selected interviews are used to gain insight into the role of internet in marketing channels, the prodeuct/service variety offered and transaction formats provided on the Net. It is found that most of the Hong Kong businesses engaging in internet commerce have the following characteristics: (l ) using internet to supplement their regular marketing channels; (2) having a local market focus; (3) concentrating on certain product categories; and (4) offering licited product varieties on -- line. These characterishcs may be explained by Hong Kong’s special environmental factors. In addition, cultural reasons, current and potential internet commerce customers in Hong Kong may belong to a rather small segment of the general population.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(72171219,72201264,71921001,71801206,71971203)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WK2040000027)+1 种基金the New Liberal Arts Fund of USTC(FSSF-A-230104)the Four Batch Talent Programs of China.
文摘The booming live-streaming commerce has significantly changed the traditional e-commerce model,thus attracting much attention from both industry and academia.In recent years,an increasing number of scholars have applied analytical models to explore live-streaming strategies for firms in different scenarios.However,the previous literature mainly considers monopolists,while in the real world,competition is not rare.To fill this gap between the literature and practical observations,this paper applies a game theoretical model to study live-streaming adoption and pricing strategy for firms under competitive environments.The results show that,for competitive firms,the equilibrium strategy depends on the relation between the commission rate and the intensity of the market expansion effect.Additionally,compared to the case in which no firm adopts live-streaming,competitive firms do not always benefit from the adoption of live-streaming selling.The paper also shows that competition plays a negative role in inducing a firm to adopt live-streaming.
文摘This paper provides an overview of using Enterprise JavaBeans to build an e-business system. First, the authors point out some difficulties during building an e-business sy stem. For example, how can we integrate all kinds of software and hardware i n company quickly and economically Then the authors introduce a representative EJB structure and currently EJB deve loping approaches. A representative EJB structure includes an EJB Server, EJB Co ntainers, EJB Clients and JNDI etc. An EJB Server is similar to CORBA ORB. It pr ovides system services such as original implementing environment, multiprocessin g, workload management, equipment accessing, JTS and JNDI service and making the EJB Container visible. The EJB Container plays the role of interface between th e EJB and others. An EJB Client never accesses Bean directly. There are two kind s of containers. One is session contain, it mainly includes brief, impermanent E JB(thus all statuses will not be saved). The other is entity container which inc luding permanent EJB. The EJB Client uses EJB Beans. First it finds EJB Containe r through JNDI interface. Then it transfers EJB methods using EJB Container. Current, EJB developing approaches include several major aspects such as develop ment, deployment, application programs assembling and management of Enterprise B ean etc. Above all, we should define three classes, Bean class, home interface c lass of Bean and remote interface class of Bean. Then we should create a deploym ent descriptor. This is an XML documentation, which declared the properties of E nterprise Bean and bound the class documentations of Bean(including stub documen tation and skeleton documentation). And then we put these deployments into a jar documentation and define environment properties in the deployer. Next, we shoul d assemble application programs including install Enterprise Beans to server and test the connecting of each ties. The program assembler integrates several Ente rprise Beans with other beans(like Servlet, Applet, Script etc) into an integrat ed application program. It also may integrate several Enterprise Beans into a co mplicated Enterprise Bean. Of cause we also need to manage the Enterprise Bean. In the end, the authors point out several major advantages of using EJB to build e-business system such as simplifying application development and deployment, supporting heterogeneous client and server platforms, leveraging existing skills and assets, delivering a secure, scalable, reliable and manageable environment and providing the freedom to implement using many vendors’ products.
文摘The developing market of information technologies i s the most dynamical and thriving business in the modern world. The law of supply and demand establishes repeating, steady cause and effect relation between three economic phenomena-price, supply and demand. Demand is an ideal need and a real opportunity of the customer to buy the goods. Supply is an ideal readiness and a real opportunity of the commodity producer to put the goods on the market . A plethora of factors affect the supply and demand. There is inverse dependenc e between the market price of the goods and the quantity which is in the demand. There is direct dependence between the market price of the goods and the qu antity which is offered to the buyer. The following features distinguish the sof tware from the usual goods in the consumer market: high science intensity, simpl icity of replicating, relative simplicity of modification and updating, high req uirements to quality of the software, at sale the buyer gets it, but it does no t disappear in sale, there is no physical deterioration, but there is a fast ob solescence. To protect the programs against the non-authorized access (the copy ings and operation) technical and legal methods are used: the patent protection, status of industrial secret, license agreements.
