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Electronic Commerce Research
Erschienen in: Electronic Commerce Research 3/2012

01.09.2012

E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: virtual transactions

verfasst von: Simon Scarle, Sylvester Arnab, Ian Dunwell, Panagiotis Petridis, Aristidis Protopsaltis, Sara de Freitas

Erschienen in: Electronic Commerce Research | Ausgabe 3/2012

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Abstract

E-commerce is a fundamental method of doing business, such that for a firm to say it is trading at all in the modern market-place it must have some element of on-line presence. Coupled with this is the explosion of the “population” of Massively Multiplayer On-line Role Playing Games and other shared virtual environments. Many suggest this will lead to a further dimension of commerce: virtual commerce.
We discuss here the issues, current roadblocks and present state of an e-commerce transaction carried out completely within a virtual environment; a virtual transaction. Although technically such transactions are in a sense trivial, they raise many other issues in complex ways thus making V-transactions a highly interesting cross-disciplinary issue. We also discuss the social, ethical and regulatory implications for the virtual communities in these environments of such v-transactions, how their implementation affects the nature and management of a virtual environment, and how they represent a fundamental merging of the real and virtual worlds for the purpose of commerce.
We highlight the minimal set of features a v-transaction capable virtual environment requires and suggest a model of how in the medium term they could be carried out via a methodology we call click-through, and that the developers of such environments will need to take on the multi-modal behavior of their users, as well as elements of the economic and political sciences in order to fully realize the commercial potential of the v-transaction.
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Metadaten
Titel
E-commerce transactions in a virtual environment: virtual transactions
verfasst von
Simon Scarle
Sylvester Arnab
Ian Dunwell
Panagiotis Petridis
Aristidis Protopsaltis
Sara de Freitas
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2012
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Electronic Commerce Research / Ausgabe 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1389-5753
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9362
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-012-9098-4

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