Electronic commerce and trust: A research

With the spread of the internet e-commerce continues to grow rapidly in a globalizing world. The problem of privacy on the Internet and various information security breaches are obstacles to this development. At this point trust is the important element in business relationships. The goal of the study was to determine whether there is a correlation between business trustworthiness of online merchants, trust in the internet medium, risk propensity, and Internet purchasing. Three dimensions are used to measure the trust of consumer. These are: Trustworthiness of e-commerce site, trust in the internet medium and risk propensity of consumers. The influence of internet security measures adopted by e-commerce merchants on consumers? online purchasing decisions were investigated for the trust in the internet medium. Finally, it was also studied to determine the relationship of risk propensity between the trust in the internet medium and business trustworthiness of e-commerce site.