E-commerce for merchants and consumers more than just a building or visiting the website attractive to do business over the Internet. For businesses and consumers, conducting business in cyberspace involves not only traditional risks and sale agreements, and a new set of risks associated with the electronic environment. For businesses of all sizes, the important components of these risks include legal issues such as jurisdiction, contracting, contract period, the contract changes and errors, authentication, and attribution, message integrity, and nonrepudiation. Familiarization with these questions can help to avoid costly disputes in e-business. "Hide
by Carl Pacini, Christine Andrews, William Hillison Source: Business Horizons 10 pages. Publication Date: January 15, 2002. Prod. #: BH069-PDF-ENG