Centers & Initiatives
Exploring the Digital Frontier
The Center for Research on Electronic Commerce studies and shapes electronic commerce processes and applications to achieve efficient outcomes as promised by the digital age.

Pioneering Business and Computer Science

We implement interdisciplinary research focused on developing technologies and applications that increase business productivity, consumer satisfaction, market efficiency, society’s welfare, and the effectiveness of government policies.

Our work encompasses digital technologies in communications infrastructure, computers, and other enabling technologies that lay the foundation of the market. This foundation allows innovative digital processes and products to enhance and replace physical processes and products.

Government agencies and policies also play a critical role in determining this new market economy’s outcome. The Center’s primary research areas cover issues ranging from market infrastructure to policies through its multidisciplinary body of researchers.

Our Mission: The Power to Reach and Transform
We have served as an incubator for breakthrough research blending business and computer science since 1988. Today the Center is recognized as a leader in Information Systems research. Dramatic technological change is transforming business and creating new challenges and opportunities. Our research staff is uniquely equipped to address these issues on behalf of the business community.
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