With the increasing popularity of online shopping, various new business models are emerging in this area. A successful example is great discount online shops, which quickly attract the attention from Chinese online shopping customers. In order to avoid the risk perception of customers caused by information asymmetry, and maintain competitiveness, great discount online shops should increase their customers’ trust. In this research, a number of key factors are tested from both sellers’ aspect and customers’ aspect. The finding shows both objective influencing factors, such as security, reputation of the online shop, reputation of the products’ brands, sellers’ service quality, and customers’ cognitive factors, such as perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, have significant correlation with customers’ trust to great discount online shop. Among them, the objective influencing factors are more influential and have stronger effect on customers’ trust in ability, integrity and benevolence to the online shops. These findings will further shed light on how to build trust with the customers of great discount online shops.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 2001. / Bibliography: leaves 166-173.

Thesis (M.Eng.(Industrial Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Joseph Shannon. Dissertation Committee: William Mahoney. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-128). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1997. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-128). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis, PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Τα τελευταία χρόνια το Internet προσφέρει στις επιχειρήσεις ένα νέο φάσμα δυνατοτήτων επικοινωνίας, διείσδυσης και ανάπτυξης. Βασικός μοχλός ήταν οι ραγδαίες τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις, με σημαντικότερη καινοτομία την ανάπτυξη του Web, που διευκόλυνε την πρόσβαση μέσω φυλλομετρητών (browsers) με υποστήριξη γραφικών και επέτρεψε στο ευρύ κοινό να πλοηγείται εύκολα και γρήγορα. Αυτό είχε ως αποτέλεσμα πολλές επιχειρήσεις να εκμεταλλευτούν αυτή την ανακάλυψη και να δραστηριοποιηθούν εμπορικά χρησιμοποιώντας νέα επικοινωνιακή υποδομή τεχνοτροπία marketing και πωλήσεων. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο θα περιγράψουμε τον ορισμό, τις κατηγορίες, τα επιχειρηματικά μοντέλα και τις τεχνολογίες του ηλεκτρονικού εμπορίου. Στην συνέχεια θα αναφερθούμε στον Σημασιολογικό Ιστό που είναι ο «Μεσσίας» του Παγκόσμιου Ιστού δηλαδή ή εξέλιξη του και θα περιγράψουμε εργαλεία και εφαρμογές του για το πώς θα μας βοηθήσει στον τρόπο ζωής μας. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο θα αναφέρουμε προγράμματα - εργαλεία που χρησιμοποιούνται με σκοπό να δημιουργήσουμε ένα ηλεκτρονικό κατάστημα και στην συνέχεια στο τέταρτο κεφάλαιο θα παρουσιαστεί ένα κατάστημα αγοράς ηλεκτρονικών βιβλίων, με τις προδιαγραφές και το περιβάλλον που πρέπει να τηρούνται στις μέρες μας με σκοπό να κάνουν τις συναλλαγές ευκολότερες. Τέλος στο πέμπτο κεφάλαιο θα παραθέσουμε τα δικά μας συμπεράσματα και λεπτομέρειες που πρέπει να προσέξουμε όταν αποφασίσουμε να κατασκευάσουμε το δικό μας ηλεκτρονικό κατάστημα (website). / In recent years, Internet offers to businesses a range of new communications facilities, penetration and growth. The main reason was the rapid technological developments, most important innovation to develop the Web, which facilitated access through browsers (browsers) with graphics and allowed the public to navigate quickly and easily. This has led many companies to exploit this discovery and to operate using commercial communications infrastructure and new style of marketing and sales. The first chapter describes the definition, categories, business models and technologies of electronic commerce. Then we refer to the Semantic Web which is the "Messiah" of World Wide Web and describe tools and applications on how to help us in our lifestyle. The third chapter deals with programs - tools used to create an online store and then in the fourth chapter it is presented a detailed e-book online shop, with the standards and the environment to be observed today in order to make trade easier. Finally in the fifth chapter we cite our own conclusions and future surveys in order to be careful when we decide to create our online store (website).

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / This thesis presents a study of spaza shop businesses in the Delft South township, Cape Town, South Africa. The major goal is to establish whether the advent of foreign run spaza businesses is due to a particular ‘entrepreneurial’ business model underwritten by relatively strong social networks. The study focuses primarily on South African and Somali owned spaza shops as previous research indicates that these are the two major groups of spaza operators in the area. The thesis centres on three core research questions: 1) is there a shift in spaza ownership from South African to Somali shopkeepers in Delft? 2) What are the different spaza business models in operation? 3) What is the significance of social networks or relationships to the success of these business models? The core findings confirm that a major shift has occurred in market share between South African and foreign owned spazas in Delft, with ownership now favouring Somali businessmen, even within the last year. The research shows that this change in ownership is a direct result of the emergence and use of a new, and more sophisticated, ‘entrepreneurial’ business model employed by foreign spaza operators, compared to the more ‘survivalist’ model used by South Africans. This business model is primarily based upon being price competitive and is made possible through collective procurement and distribution. However, an important factor in this success lies in the differential social networks that South African and Somali spaza owners can access to support their business practices in Delft South. Using an anthropologically influenced in-depth ethnographic case study approach, the research operationalises the concept of ‘business models’ by exploring the establishment process (ownership, labour and employment), capital investment, stock procurement, business operation and mobile distribution to spaza shops. The study demonstrates how the socially richer and clan-based social networks of Somali shopkeepers enable a more entrepreneurial business model, whereas South Africans rely on a network limited to the immediate family and approach the spaza business as a supplementary livelihoods strategy. In addition to deepening our understanding of competing business models and the social networks that underwrite them, this research also provides new insights into the significance of spatiality to the spaza economy through the concepts of ‘strongholds’ and ‘neighbourhood economies’; previously unseen forms of spaza related business, principally around the mobile distribution of spaza stock to retailers in Delft South; and the instrumental use of both formality and informality by foreign business people.