scholarly journals The Impact of the Pandemic (COVID-19) on Globalization – The Perspective of Electronic Commerce

2021 ◽  
Vol 3/2021 (93) ◽  
pp. 53-72
Author(s):  
Witold Chmielarz ◽  
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Marek Zborowski ◽  
Alicja Fandrejewska
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
International Commerce ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Desktop Computers ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Staying At Home

Purpose: The objective of this article is to examine the impact of e-commerce and m-commerce on broadly perceived globalization factors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the opinion of customers. Design/methodology/approach: The CAWI method was used with the participation of individual, active internet users from both periods. The differences between the results were analyzed using the distance indices: city distance and Euclidean distance. The data from March 2020 (before the pandemic) and from December 2020 (during the pandemic) were used as the basis for comparisons. Findings: The findings point to increasing diversification in the product/services range and the growing number of goods and services purchased abroad. There occur much smaller differences with regard to infrastructure factors which have a direct influence on foreign e-commerce. Also, in the respondents’ opinions, greater popularity and more frequent use of international commerce solutions during the pandemic is treated as a factor which supports the development of globalization. The main observed changes during the COVID-19 pandemic are infrastructure changes (staying at home, remote learning, remote work, etc.) and an extend and standardized approach to e-commerce. The second equally important effect is the shift from desktop computers to mobile devices. Research limitations/implications: The limitation resulted from the research sample obtained in the academic environment. Students are a group supporting the globalization processes, where e-business solutions are widely used, but their purchases of products/services, including foreign goods, are often limited due to lack of funds. Originality/value: The original value of the article is the identification and specification of the main factors supporting globalization in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic from the point of view of electronic commerce.

THE SPECIFICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE COMMERCE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOR OF INTERNET USERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-171
Author(s):  
Dmitrii V. Tyurin ◽  
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Aleksandra O. Volkova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Electronic Format ◽  
Online Commerce ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Technical Innovations

The article presents trends and innovations in the global and Russian markets regarding consumer behavior, analyzes the prospects for the development of online commerce, and suggests various approaches to increasing the share of online store customers and consumer retention in the era of digitalization and e-commerce. In particular, the authors analyzed the specifics of interaction with the audience on the example of a large online platform “Shopping live”. The practical skills of using innovative developments by marketers in terms of the development of mobile consumption of services and goods are demonstrated. The article takes into account the requirements that customers face in connection with the pandemic and forced self-isolation, in particular, the ability to use various technical innovations. It also demonstrates, as modern factors, the experience of practicing marketers, which influenced their work in the electronic format of selling goods and services, and in particular the use of new approaches in communication and customer orientation. The authors formulate approaches to the development of electronic promotion of goods and products of various industries from the point of view of consumer preferences, based on the specifics of the marketing strategy of large marketplaces, such as Wildberries, Aliexpress.

scholarly journals The Impact of Ad-Blocking on the Sustainable Development of the Digital Advertising Ecosystem

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janusz Wielki ◽  
Janusz Grabara
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Excessive Number

Despite the rapidly growing expenditure on digital advertising, the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem is becoming less and less visible. This is related to the fact that only a small part of the expenditure incurred by organizations on various forms of digital advertising brings the expected results. For several years now, a phenomenon that stifles the effectiveness of the digital advertising ecosystem and deteriorates the ROI (return on investment) of advertisers has been the widespread practice of blocking advertising, known as ad-blocking. In this context, the aim of this article is to analyze the scale of the phenomenon of ad-blocking and its causes in terms of its impact on the effectiveness of the functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem and its sustainable development, which is extremely important from the point of view of the development of electronic commerce. In order to carry out this study, a literature analysis was conducted on the genesis of this phenomenon, its scale, causes, and economic effects. After this stage of research, in order to obtain primary data, a questionnaire survey was conducted on a group of individual Internet users. The results of the research indicated three main reasons for the development of ad-blocking. These are: excessive number of advertisements, their excessive invasiveness, and the mismatch between the advertisements displayed to the user and the user’s interests. In the context of these results and of the continued sustainable functioning of the digital advertising ecosystem, it is essential that the advertising industry be able to offer users alternatives to ad-blocking that they consider valuable from their own point of view and that take the users’ expectations into account.

scholarly journals Determinant Factors of Information Technology Adoption in Creative Business and The Result of Its Application: Case of SMEs Cluster in South Bandung

2018 ◽  
Vol 215 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Wawan Dhewanto ◽  
Yuliani Dwi Lestari ◽  
Sri Heliana ◽  
Qonita Himmatul Aliya ◽  
Nur Lawiyah
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Information Technology Adoption ◽  
Determinant Factors ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

The expansion of information technology and electronic commerce in Indonesia has provides the opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop their business. It can be seen from the rapid growth of SMEs and creative business in Indonesia increased from year to year. Most SMEs have adopted information technology and electronic commerce (e-commerce) for their business. E-commerce was really famous in today business to be discussed. In general e-commerce is radically changing traditional ways of doing business. The government says ecommerce has huge potential to build the economy of the nation because the large number of internet users increase continuously and become the first factors of adopting technology of ecommerce by the organization. Various research has been analyzed widely the adoption of ecommerce by SMEs. The purpose of this research is to examine determinant factors of adoption of technology ecommerce in SMEs and the impact on their organizational business as a result of level of success. Firstly, empirically investigate the determinants factors in internal and external by conducting interview. Secondly, provide new direction addressing why the business adopt ecommerce and what are concerning factors in adopting ecommerce with a successful. Analysis was done by comparing and analyzing six SMEs in South Bandung in a cluster that have same of types of products and adopt technology ecommerce but have a different in many ways. As the result of this study, limited human resource capacity and skills is the main constrains faced by SMEs when adopting technology ecommerce.

scholarly journals Pragmatic (In)appropriateness of Diminutives in Russian Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1160-1174
Author(s):  
Victoriya Yu. Trubnikova
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Variables ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Pragmatic Skills ◽  
The Impact

The article discusses the issue of pragmatic meanings of diminutive forms in the Russian language from the point of view of politeness and speech act theories. The impact of diminutives on the illocutionary force and perlocutionary effects of speech acts raises the question of their appropriateness in various communicative situations. Since there is a negative bias towards diminutives among lay native speakers, it was decided to analyse their opinions, beliefs and feelings in order to define 1) the speakers illocutionary intentions; 2) contexts of use and 3) perlocutionary effects. The online articles, forums, posts on social networks and comments of Internet users were collected, with a total amount of 23 sources and 714 user comments. The emic and bottom-up approach referred to speakers intuition reveal 1) negative attitude towards diminutives in hierarchical relationships, 2) perception of diminutives as a positive politeness tool in low distance relationships, 3) perception of diminutives as a manipulative tool in unequal relationships. Thus, the appropriate use of diminutives calls for pragmatic skills to assess a communicative situation in terms of social variables, such as social distance and power, mutual costs and benefits, rights and obligations of interlocutors.

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of Remote Work

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-160
Author(s):  
Tatyana Kicheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World Health ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Working Environments ◽  
Individual Point ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

In a dynamic crisis situation such as the current one, the forecasts for the impact of COVID-19 on the world economy and the development of individual countries and cities are constantly changing. The impact of COVID-19 has turned many industries upside down in unexpected ways. More organizations switch to remote working environments for their employees due to the current world health crisis. The purpose of this article is to outline the opportunities and challenges facing Bulgarian employees working from home during the MarchApril 2020 state of mergency and beyond. We discuss the many advantages and disadvantages of remote work from an individual point of view.

SME's Perceptions of B2B E-Commerce

2011 ◽  
pp. 1022-1028
Author(s):  
Assion Lawson-Body ◽  
Abdou Illia
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Early Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Web Tools ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Loyal Customers

The primary objective of this study is to examine the effects of the Internet’s Web tools (the level of Web content and the level of security on the Internet) on the interorganizational relationships (IOR) between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and their loyal customers. This article focuses on B2B electronic commerce because according to a recent report, the value of goods and services sold via B2B electronic markets will reach $2.7 trillion by the year 2004 (Gartner Group, 2000). While these figures give the impression that B2B electronic commerce is expanding fast, the fact remains that many SMEs are still sitting on the sidelines (Caldeira & Ward, 2002; Lam, Shankar, Erramilli, & Murthy, 2004; Teo, Wei, & Benbasat, 2003). Many SMEs that maintain IOR with their customers have difficulties achieving the benefits as suggested by media and early research (Lituchy & Rail, 2000; Poon, 2000; Tagliavini, Ravarini, & Antonelli, 2001). In addition, there is little existing research that has empirically tested the impact of the Internet’s Web tools on IOR which lead to customer loyalty.

scholarly journals Consumer Perception of Electronic Commerce – Incorporating Trust and Risk with the Technology Acceptance Model

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Goundar ◽  
Kunal Lal ◽  
Ashmita Chand ◽  
Pranav Vyas
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Technology Acceptance Model ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Shopping Behavior ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Acceptance Model

The rapid growth in internet technology and the innovations in smart devices has had its impact on how businesses used to operate a decade ago to how consumers followed traditional shopping behavior when goods or services was required. The rise in internet users presents the opportunity of Electronic Commerce, the idea of providing and accessing goods and services using internet, such as selling goods and services, performing financial transactions and even booking an appointment. The two leading theories - perceived ease of use and usefulness have been employed in numerous information systems research studies to help understand consumer behavior in e-commerce environments. As the acceptance of e-commerce in Fiji is relatively low, this paper integrates the findings of previous researches with the perceived trust and perceived risk of consumers to provide a comprehensive framework of online shopping behavior based on the Technology Acceptance Model. To gain an in-depth understanding of consumers’ acceptance of e-commerce an online questionnaire was used with questions which focused on these disciplines. The outcome of which verified that there were correlations between trust, perceived risk, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and usage of e-commerce. Through the use of this research, businesses in Fiji may incorporate features as per user expectations and have a good background before venturing into e-commerce.

scholarly journals Impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection on Patients with Chronic Inflammatory Airway Diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 3800
Author(s):  
Marta Garcia-Clemente ◽  
David de la Rosa ◽  
Luis Máiz ◽  
Rosa Girón ◽  
Marina Blanco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Chronic Infections ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Airway Diseases ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Chronic Colonization ◽  
Bronchial Infection ◽  
The Impact

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a ubiquitous and opportunistic microorganism and is considered one of the most significant pathogens that produce chronic colonization and infection of the lower respiratory tract, especially in people with chronic inflammatory airway diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis (CF), and bronchiectasis. From a microbiological viewpoint, the presence and persistence of P. aeruginosa over time are characterized by adaptation within the host that precludes any rapid, devastating injury to the host. Moreover, this microorganism usually develops antibiotic resistance, which is accelerated in chronic infections especially in those situations where the frequent use of antimicrobials facilitates the selection of “hypermutator P. aeruginosa strain”. This phenomenon has been observed in people with bronchiectasis, CF, and the “exacerbator” COPD phenotype. From a clinical point of view, a chronic bronchial infection of P. aeruginosa has been related to more severity and poor prognosis in people with CF, bronchiectasis, and probably in COPD, but little is known on the effect of this microorganism infection in people with asthma. The relationship between the impact and treatment of P. aeruginosa infection in people with airway diseases emerges as an important future challenge and it is the most important objective of this review.

scholarly journals AN EXAMINATION ON THE IMPACT OF OUTSOURCING ON SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1379-1394
Author(s):  
Vural ÇAĞLIYAN ◽  
Emel GELMEZ ◽  
Minenur Sezer DİLEK
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Impact

As a requirement of competitiveness, businesses procure those goods and services which are beyond their own fields of activity from specialized businesses. Based on this requirement, examination of the effect of outsourcing, one of the crucial instruments for businesses in gaining competitive advantage, on sustainable supply chain performance and business performance, is of importance in terms of bringing a point of view on the dimensions of the ongoing competition in sectoral sense and enabling the businesses to assess their own structures. In this context, the effect of outsourcing by businesses operating in food industry in the province of Konya on sustainable supply chain performance and business performance was examined in this study. Structural equation modeling was utilized to analyze the correlation between the variables. While no statistically significant correlation could be determined between outsourcing and sustainable supply chain perforrmance, it was found out that a statistically significant correlation existed between sustainable supply chain performance and business performance as well as between the outsourcing and business performance. 

scholarly journals Addressing the Impact of Border Enforcement Measures on the Self-Reported Health of Migrants Aiming to Enter Japan During the COVID-19 Epidemic.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Wels
Keyword(s):  
Married Couples ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Border Enforcement ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Impact

Following the spread of COVID-19 in early 2020, Japan has implemented border enforcement measures to ban most foreigners, including tourists, workers and students from entering Japan for the time being, except for special humanitarian circumstances. For about a year, many migrants have been unable to enter Japan and had to postpone their plans. Using an online questionnaire (N=478), this study aimed to assess the impact of border enforcement measures on migrants’ health and wellbeing. Results indicate that border enforcement measures have generated insecurities, both from a financial and personal point of view. These have had strong negative effects on physical health and, to a greater extent, on sleep quality, level of stress and quality of life. The article demonstrates that insecurity is key for understanding Japanese border policies and, consequently, migrants’ health as it shapes a spectrum between the insiders and the outsiders that is determined by factors that take little account of individuals’ situation and that the state of exception reveals a gradient that is independent from the epidemic situation. It concludes with five points to be discussed further to protect migrants’ heath in case of travel ban: allow a fair treatment of migrants, developing international remote work possibilities, discussing the portability of the costs related to border enforcement measures, allow non-married couples to reunite and give a greater visibility to international migrants.

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