Mr Ma
UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND
Research Skills and Academic Literacy: CETM11
Assignment 1
Ethics in the design of e-commerce application
Jianfei Ma
109998046
Introduction
E-commerce can be defined as use computers with internet to aid the trade of goods and services. The emergence of e-commerce is seen as a new wave of IT. E-commerce provide a trading platform without the distance between products and consumers. Online trading activities continually increase in these years and will dramatically grow in the future (Nardal and Sahin, 2011). Bette and Jackie (2001) notes people will change their common consumer behaviour to the Web. The gap between e-commerce and commerce is going to disappear swiftly. As a result of this huge market, a lot of companies ceaselessly found the way to succeed in this competition (Stead and Gilbert,2001).
On the other hand Internet created a new environment for unethical behaviour. Many ethical issues came out, such as spamming and cybersquatters. Cause by people lack of fear of punishment in e-commerce, inappropriate behaviour engaged (Nardal and Sahin, 2011). Generally unethical issue in e-commerce is using Internet to cheat consumers, trading illegal goods and etc. If the unethical problems are disregarded or not resolved, it is possible to make deformity of development of e-commerce (Stead and Gilbert, 2001).
This paper gives a review by comparing two different articles, these two articles both are related ethical issues in the design of e-commerce applications. The first article written by Stead and Gilbert(2001) is Ethical Issues in Electronic Commerce and the second article written by Nardal and Sahin (2011) is Ethical Issues in E-commerceon the Basis of Online Retailing.
Research questions
Their two articles relate to the ethical issues in e-commerce, but they have different focal points. Nardal and Sahin (2011) focused on ethical issues in e-commerce
Research Skills and Academic Literacy: CETM11
Assignment 1
Ethics in the design of e-commerce application
Jianfei Ma
109998046
Introduction
E-commerce can be defined as use computers with internet to aid the trade of goods and services. The emergence of e-commerce is seen as a new wave of IT. E-commerce provide a trading platform without the distance between products and consumers. Online trading activities continually increase in these years and will dramatically grow in the future (Nardal and Sahin, 2011). Bette and Jackie (2001) notes people will change their common consumer behaviour to the Web. The gap between e-commerce and commerce is going to disappear swiftly. As a result of this huge market, a lot of companies ceaselessly found the way to succeed in this competition (Stead and Gilbert,2001).
On the other hand Internet created a new environment for unethical behaviour. Many ethical issues came out, such as spamming and cybersquatters. Cause by people lack of fear of punishment in e-commerce, inappropriate behaviour engaged (Nardal and Sahin, 2011). Generally unethical issue in e-commerce is using Internet to cheat consumers, trading illegal goods and etc. If the unethical problems are disregarded or not resolved, it is possible to make deformity of development of e-commerce (Stead and Gilbert, 2001).
This paper gives a review by comparing two different articles, these two articles both are related ethical issues in the design of e-commerce applications. The first article written by Stead and Gilbert(2001) is Ethical Issues in Electronic Commerce and the second article written by Nardal and Sahin (2011) is Ethical Issues in E-commerceon the Basis of Online Retailing.
Research questions
Their two articles relate to the ethical issues in e-commerce, but they have different focal points. Nardal and Sahin (2011) focused on ethical issues in e-commerce