Acceptance and Leadership--Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives

Bibliographic Data

ID15246306
AuthorsBrian Corbitt (corresponding author), Brian J Corbitt, Theerasak Thanasankit
Year2002
Volume20
Issue1
Publication date2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePrometheus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0810-9028 • E-ISSN: 1470-1030
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08109020110110916
OpenAlexW2042481149
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This paper presents an analysis of the e-Commerce policies developed and implemented in the USA, Canada, Australia, Victoria, Finland, Norway, the UK, Ireland, the EU (by the OECD), Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region). The paper shows that e-Commerce policy adopted is generally trying to achieve two fundamental aims: 1. to minimize regulatory environments for e-Commerce; and 2. to ease logistical problems in doing e-Commerce - i.e. in paying electronically, in delivery of goods and in customs, tariffs and duties. These strategies are designed to create an environment where e-Commerce is adopted by business and government in these countries to achieve 'best practice', to become 'modern', to gain 'efficiencies', because 'it is the way to go', because 'we must have it, because everybody has it', and because they 'perceive the benefits of it'. In essence it is being used to gain hegemony in the economic competitiveness of the geopolitical environment created by the Internet. This paper argues that differentiating types of policy is related to ideology and hegemony in the various countries

Business · E-commerce · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Goods and services · Government (linguistics · Hegemony · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Public relations · The Internet · E-Government and Public Services · ICT Impact and Policies · Law · Public Administration

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