Mobile Electronic Commerce : Foundations, Development, and Applications

Mobile commerce transactions continue to soar, driven largely by the ever-increasing adoption and use of smartphones and tablets. The use of this technology gives consumers the flexibility to shop whenever and wherever they want. Mobile Electronic Commerce: Foundations, Development, and Applications addresses the role of industry, academia, scientists, engineers, professionals, and students in developing innovative new mobile commerce technologies and systems to further improve the consumer experience. It also discusses the impact of mobile commerce on society, economics, culture, organizations, government, industry, and our daily lives.

This book brings together experts from multiple disciplines in industry and academia to stimulate new thinking in the development and application of mobile commerce technology. The book covers important mobile commerce topics, such as critical infrastructure management, mobile security issues, new applications and services, emerging development architectures, mobile business solutions, and future research opportunities.

In addition to its multidisciplinary approach, the book also provides a cross-cultural approach intended to overcome cultural barriers and accelerate mobile commerce advancement in the global economy. Authors and researchers from around the world discuss a broad spectrum of methods, tools, and guidelines for designing mobile commerce systems and services in different cultures.

June Wei, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Management and Management Information Systems, University of West Florida. She earned her PhD from Purdue University, a master’s degree from Georgia Institute of Technology, and another master’s degree from Zhejiang University. Her research interests cover electronic supply chain management, information security and privacy in mobile electronic commerce, and mobile electronic commerce systems development.

She is editor-in-chief of three peer-reviewed leading journals on information systems: International Journal of Mobile Communications; Electronic Government, an International Journal; and International Journal of Electronic Finance. She is also an associate editor of three peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Information Privacy and Security, and International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She teaches courses on business information systems development, systems design and analysis, operations management problems, and electronic business fundamentals. She has published about 150 papers with about 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and three book chapters.

Dr. Wei has won many awards for her research, including the Distinguished Writing Award of the Foundation for Information Technology Education and the Education Special Interest Group of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (2004 and 2005) and the Best Paper Award sponsored by Emerald Publisher in International Conference on Accounting, Business, Leadership, and Information Management (2010). She has been recognized at a Florida Board of Trustees meeting (2011). She has also been recognized by the University of West Florida with the Distinguished Research and Creative Activities Award (2010) and the Distinguished Teaching Award (2012), and the Dyson Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Business (200