Research Priorities in Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce is going to be the major business form in the coming digital economy. The paper introduces the essential ideas presented in a workshop, NSF workshop: Research Priorities in Electronic Commerce, sponsored by NSF and hosted by Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, the University of Texas at Austin. The workshop concluded that current researches in Electronic Commerce were carried out in each discipline separately, much less attentions were paid to multi-discipline research. Lots of new issues to be studied could not left to private sectors. The purpose of paper is to provide a reference for research institutions in China to draft their research agenda in Electronic Commerce.