Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 32-49
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Athanasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Network Technologies

The revolutionary development of network technologies launched electronic commerce as a global phenomenon. Consequently, the policy issues that arise from its use create new responsibilities for policy makers world-wide. Apart from the technical (e.g. fast and reliable networks) and regulatory (e.g. legal frameworks and standardization) challenges that need to be tackled there are a number of social concerns that also need consideration. It is important for policy makers to see Internet use and electronic commerce as a social as well as a technical phenomenon. In this paper we examine how social concerns such as trust and digital democracy pertain to all levels of Internet and electronic commerce policy, posing dilemmas and influencing the construction of an effective and socially responsible strategy for electronic commerce.

Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 173-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Athanasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Social Concerns ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
Network Technologies

The revolutionary development of network technologies launched electronic commerce as a global phenomenon. Consequently, the policy issues that arise from its use create new responsibilities for policy makers worldwide. Apart from the technical (e.g., fast and reliable networks) and regulatory (e.g., legal frameworks and standardization) challenges that need to be tackled, there are a number of social concerns that also need consideration. It is important for policy makers to see Internet use and electronic commerce as a social as well as a technical phenomenon. In this chapter we examine how social concerns such as trust and digital democracy pertain to all levels of Internet and electronic commerce policy, posing dilemmas and influencing the construction of an effective and socially responsible strategy for electronic commerce.

Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 189-206
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Athanasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Network Security ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
White House ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
National Governments

Policy implementation for electronic commerce is a complex process since policy makers, national governments in their majority, have to act in a fast changing environment. They need to balance special national demands with international cooperation (Papazafeiropoulou & Pouloudi, 2000). One of the areas that policy makers have to tackle is dealing with barriers that have been reported in the adoption of electric commerce today. These barriers are mostly derived from factors such as lack of awareness about the opportunities offered by electronic commerce as well as lack of trust to ward network security. Additionally the current legislative framework, drawn before the advent of electronic commerce, is perceived as outdated, thus impeding the expansion of online transactions. Policy makers, therefore, find it increasingly critical to update commerce legislation (Owens, 1999; Shim et al., 2000; the White House, 1999) and take other measures to facilitate the uptake of electronic commerce.

Social Issues in Electronic Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 144-159
Author(s):  
Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou ◽  
Athanasia Pouloudi
Keyword(s):  
Network Security ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
White House ◽  
Online Transactions ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
National Governments

Policy implementation for electronic commerce is a complex process since policy makers, national governments in their majority, have to act in a fast changing environment. They need to balance special national demands with international cooperation (Papazafeiropoulou & Pouloudi, 2000). One of the areas that policy makers have to tackle is dealing with barriers that have been reported in the adoption of electric commerce today. These barriers are mostly derived from factors such as lack of awareness about the opportunities offered by electronic commerce as well as lack of trust to ward network security. Additionally the current legislative framework, drawn before the advent of electronic commerce, is perceived as outdated, thus impeding the expansion of online transactions. Policy makers, therefore, find it increasingly critical to update commerce legislation (Owens, 1999; Shim et al., 2000; the White House, 1999) and take other measures to facilitate the uptake of electronic commerce.

A Special-Purpose Taxonomy of Corporate Social Performance Concepts

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett A. Stone
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Corporate Social Performance ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Socially Responsible Mutual Funds ◽  
Corporate Social

The first iteration of a nonstatic special-purpose taxonomy of corporate social performance concepts is developed from a mailed, self-administered survey completed by managers of U.S. socially responsible mutual funds. The study combines the traditionally disparate research areas of Corporate Social Performance and Socially Responsible Investing. As a partial update of Rockness and Williams (1988), a descriptive account is presented of what mutual fund managers regard as the social issues that constitute corporate social performance. The resulting taxonomy represents an empirically derived framework useful in considering social accounting in general and accounting standard setting in particular.

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFICATION OF RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Vorontsova ◽  
A. Rudychenko ◽  
L. Zakharkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
Main Requirement ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Integrated Concept ◽  
Social Environmental

Numerous environmental problems, the consequences of the financial crisis, the aggravation of social issues (such as poverty, unemployment, other consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic etc) cause the need for the evolution of financial instruments in the field of investment. The main requirement is a reasonable investment, which involves focusing not only on financial benefits but also to promote social, environmental and economic (or sustainable) development. This work is devoted to the use of structural and functional approach to the identification of responsible investment. This allows us to consider such an investment concept as a complex system formed of interconnected functional elements. To do this, the author conducted a study of the essence of responsible investing and its main criteria. These primarily include consideration of various environmental, social and managerial factors (ESG-factors) in making management decisions. The next step is to analyze the approaches of domestic and foreign scientists to determine the main forms of responsible investment. Based on this, the stage formation of the concept of responsible investing is formed in the work. At the initial stage, there is the use of various forms of responsible investing, depending on the purpose of investors and the period time: ethical, green, thematic, impact investing. In the second stage, the idea of socially responsible investment was developed, and later - sustainable investment. The final stage is the allocation of responsible investment as a separate integrated concept that meets modern requirements. To better understand the distinction between certain forms of responsible investment in the work, their gradation depending on the orientation on financial or social goals has been studied. The study is theoretical and involved the use of general scientific methods: structural and functional approach, analysis and synthesis, grouping and logical generalization. The provisions formed in the article allow forming a theoretical basis within the research, which will be used for further work in this direction.

scholarly journals Health Tweets: An Exploration of Health Promotion on Twitter

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorie Donelle ◽  
Richard Booth
Keyword(s):  
Cross Section ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Health Agency ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
The Public ◽  
Directed Content Analysis ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Network Technologies

Twitter® is a popular microblogging site that allows users to disseminate information in 140 characters of text or less. A review of literature indicated that, to date, there has been little inquiry into the health based discussions conceptualized and enacted within and among Twitter® users. Methods for this qualitative study included a directed content analysis, guided by the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Determinant of Health (DOH) framework was completed to explore health based discussions on Twitter®. A 24-hour cross-section of tweets (N=2400) containing the word or hashtag ‘health’ were collected for analysis. Findings revealed predominant themes of health services, personal health practices, and education. Many of the tweeted messages reflected existing political and social issues publicized within the global mass media. This study also considered the evolving dynamic behind the conceptualization of health and how it is co-constructed through news media, advertising, and social network technologies. Discussion of the emerging themes and implications for practice are presented.

scholarly journals The convergence of electricity and digitalization in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Romy Dekker ◽  
Rinie Van Est
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Energy System ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Energy Data ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Policy Paradigm ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Sustainable Energy System

This paper explores the convergence of electricity and digitalization in the Netherlands. Based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework, we first show how the Paris Agreement on global warming in 2015 has led to a new renewable energy policy paradigm, in which digitalization plays a key enabling role. We will then show that the far-reaching convergence of electricity and digitalization pursued by European and Dutch policy makers will raise new policy issues. The core challenge is adequate energy data governance. Digitalization also raises policy issues in the areas of safety, consumer protection, democratic control, and equal distribution of costs and benefits in a digitized energy system. As the transition to a sustainable energy system must take place rapidly and energy data are expected to play a crucial role in achieving this, these issues are urgent.

scholarly journals A Geospatial Web Application to Map Observations and Opinions in Environmental Planning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claus Rinner ◽  
Jyothi Kumari ◽  
Sepehr Mavedati
Keyword(s):  
Organic Farming ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Organic Food ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Food Market ◽  
Obser Vations ◽  
Shed Light

The geospatial Web enables virtually everyone to contribute to the growing col-lection of geographically referenced information on the World-Wide Web. In this chapter, we present a Google Maps-based tool that enables Web users to contribute two types of informa-tion: annotations and their reference locations. We further differentiate annotations into obser-vations and opinions regarding specific places. The potential of this approach for integrating lo-cal knowledge into environmental planning was assessed by conducting an online map-based discussion of organic farming among expert stakeholders in the Kawarthas area in Central On-tario, Canada. The discussion contents shed light on the participants’ perceptions of the organic food market. Moreover, the experiment demonstrated how a map-based discussion forum can be useful for obtaining public input on planning and policy issues.

An Investigation into the Adoption of Electronic Commerce Among Saudi Arabian SMEs

2013 ◽  
pp. 126-150
Author(s):  
Sabah Abdullah Al-Somali ◽  
Roya Gholami ◽  
Ben Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Internet Shopping ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Technology Managers

Despite the proliferation of e-commerce adoption by SMEs and the world-wide growth of e-commerce, in general there is a paucity of empirical studies that examine the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs in the Middle East. In this paper, the authors provide insights into the salient e-commerce adoption issues by focusing on Saudi Arabian SMEs. This research was designed using a qualitative approach through in-depth case studies selected from firms in Saudi Arabia. The findings contribute toward a better conceptual and practical understanding of the main factors driving SMEs to adopt e-commerce. The authors find that the level of e-commerce implementation has yet to mature and customer readiness for Internet shopping must improve before e-commerce reaches the levels of maturity seen in other regions of the world. This study highlights directions for future inquiry and implications for information and technology managers and policymakers in developing Arab nations.

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