Editorial Mission
The International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) is the leading refereed quarterly devoted to advancing the understanding and practice of electronic commerce. It serves the needs of researchers as well as practitioners and executives active and expert in electronic commerce. Electronic commerce includes consumer-oriented, business-to-business, and intra-organizational digitalization activities. The Journal aims to offer an integrated view of the entire field by presenting approaches of multiple disciplines.
Electronic commerce is the sharing of information, maintaining relationships, and conducting business transactions by digital means over telecommunications networks. IJEC accepts for double-blind referee review the submissions that make a significant novel contribution to this field. Such contributions may present:
- Empirical or theoretical research work relevant to the progress of electronic commerce
- Paradigmatic designs and applications
- Investigation of organizational, societal, and international issues of electronic commerce
Analytical attention is focused on the following issues:
- The marketplace and organizational effects of e-commerce
- Business and organizational transformation with e-commerce
- Business value in e-commerce
- Internet business models
- Supply chain management and collaborative commerce
- Omni-service, multichannel selling, and e-retail
- Co-creation and consumer roles in e-commerce
- Online communities
- Social media, social commerce, and social networks
- Economics of electronic commerce
- Digital platforms
- Web marketing
- Digital product management and property rights
- Security and privacy of transactions and information
- Fintech and digital currencies
- Internet-of-Things in business
Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts for publication in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce.