The main purpose of the paper is to discuss the nature of the enterprise architecture of the blockchain platform (EAoBP). The authors also highlighted how the main technology challenges for enterprises are addressed through the proposed solution. The paper consists of the introduction and 3 chapters. Chapter 2 presents related works about the blockchain technology and defines the platform concept. The architecture layers which are required to build the enterprise blockchain platforms are described in the 3rd chapter. The 4th chapter constitutes the implementation aspects of the EAoBP. The permissioned blockchain systems leverage a cross-organizational collaboration model, what constitutes cooperation within the network without 3rd party authorities. The open source character of the implementation technology and the clear guidance of the scope of each layer clarified in the article should help businesses in applying the concept.

The embedding of trading and banking functions in a social network offers promising prospects for trade, financial intermediation, and social networks, as well as for network users. Social sites are becoming more sophisticated due to the variety of applications and interaction channels that provide not only social contacts (P2P), but also business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and consumer-to-consumer systems (C2C).

E-commerce has several benefits with many challenges. The identity of the involved parties and verifying the suitability of the goods is a matter of debate. There is no proper theory to explain this complex online purchasing behavior. A conceptual framework development was conducted specifically to find a model to measure online purchasing intention.

Technology acceptance theories are mainly focused on measuring the acceptability of new technologies and empirically tested through employees in an organization. Currently, these technology acceptance theories are used by researchers to measure the online purchasing intention. However, those theories were directly focused on the technological components, ignoring retailers, customers, media and most other macro components engaged in the online purchasing.

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Recently the use of blog as an e-commerce site has become popular in Malaysia.Significant changes can be seen in e-commerce usage as more people are connected to the Internet through faster broadband connection. Nonetheless, trust remains a major issue when it involves online transaction. Information displayed on the blog is vital and considered as one of the important factors to gain the consumer trust.This paper is a preliminary study particularly focusing on the conformance of Malaysia E-Commerce blogs with related theories on quality online content.Samples were taken from Malaysia e-commerce blogs to identify the information that is shared by the owner of respective blogs.The information collected from the blog is then compared to the quality contents’ theories.Descriptive statistic is used to describe the findings. Findings from this paper can be used as a guideline for entrepreneurs who intend to use blogs for e-commerce purposes

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