Wheel of B2C E-commerce Development in Saudi Arabia

Online retailing (a model of B2C e-commerce) is growing world-wide, with companies in many countries showing increased sales and productivity as a result. It has great potential within the global economy. This paper looks at the current status of online retailing in Saudi Arabia, with particular focus on what inhibits or enables both the customers and retailers. It also analyses the status of Government involvement and proposes a layered model, known as the Wheel of Online Retailing which illustrates how Government intervention can benefit the e-commerce in Saudi Arabia.Online retailing (a model of B2C e-commerce) is growing world-wide, with companies in many countries showing increased sales and productivity as a result. It has great potential within the global economy. This paper looks at the current status of online retailing in Saudi Arabia, with particular focus on what inhibits or enables both the customers and retailers. It also analyses the status of Government involvement and proposes a layered model, known as the Wheel of Online Retailing which illustrates how Government intervention can benefit the e-commerce in Saudi Arabia.
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Conference Title

Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012

Publisher URI

http://www.rita2012.org/main/

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37374-9_101

Copyright Statement

© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com

Subject

Technology not elsewhere classified

Publication URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10072/52559

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Conference outputs