Journal of Electronic Commerce

Journal of Electronic Commerce

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Electronic Commerce Management serves as an interdisciplinary academic platform that responds to the rapidly evolving landscape of digital economy, technological innovation, and consumer behavior in data-driven markets. The journal aims to foster the advancement of both fundamental and applied knowledge in electronic commerce by supporting research that bridges theory, analytics, and practice.

The content-driven strategy of the journal is structured across four interconnected dimensions:

  1. Theoretical development and conceptual innovation

  2. Analytical rigor and data-centric research

  3. Practical relevance and industry application

  4. Advancement of methodological excellence in digital commerce studies


✅ Content-Oriented Objectives

1. Conceptual and Theoretical Expansion:

  • Developing novel frameworks to explain consumer behavior in platform-based ecosystems

  • Theorizing around digital value creation, virtual customer experience, and e-loyalty

  • Reframing traditional management constructs such as leadership, decision-making, and CRM in the context of digital commerce

  • Enriching discourse on platform economies, network effects, and stakeholder co-creation

2. Technology-Focused Research:

  • Investigating the business implications of AI, machine learning, and deep learning in commerce

  • Studying the role of immersive technologies (AR, VR, metaverse) in shaping digital user experience

  • Exploring blockchain applications in digital supply chain transparency and smart contracting

  • Analyzing the integration of IoT in intelligent retail and personalized commerce

3. Data-Driven Inquiry:

  • Applying data mining, neural networks, predictive analytics, and clustering to model consumer behavior

  • Utilizing big data, sentiment analysis, and predictive insights in digital marketing strategy

  • Modeling customer journey, cart abandonment, loyalty mechanisms, and engagement patterns using real-time data

  • Conducting in-depth analysis of digital footprints, clickstreams, UX flows, and engagement heatmaps

4. Industry Application and Case Studies:

  • Examining challenges and transformation strategies in SMEs undergoing digitalization

  • Comparative analysis of local and international platforms in revenue models, UX innovation, and retention strategies

  • Designing intelligent systems for recommender engines, dynamic pricing, and targeted advertising

  • Identifying legal, regulatory, and infrastructural barriers to digital commerce expansion

5. Policy, Governance, and Digital Law:

  • Addressing issues of data ownership, digital trust, and privacy in smart marketplaces

  • Analyzing global regulatory trends around platform governance, anti-trust frameworks, and algorithmic accountability

  • Studying government policies in e-commerce enablement through infrastructure, taxation, and digital literacy

  • Proposing ethical frameworks and CSR models tailored for digital commerce contexts

6. Behavioral and Psychological Research in Digital Environments:

  • Evaluating how UI/UX design influences digital decision-making processes

  • Investigating the role of motivation, trust, emotion, and risk perception in online shopping

  • Studying unconscious triggers and neuromarketing effects in consumer-brand interaction

  • Modeling multichannel and self-directed customer journeys in intelligent service platforms

7. Innovative Research Methodologies:

  • Promoting the use of mixed methods, path analysis, SEM, and reinforcement learning in digital research

  • Integrating simulations, agent-based modeling, and A/B testing in commerce studies

  • Advancing experimental techniques using EEG, eye-tracking, and affective computing in digital contexts

  • Conducting behavioral experiments within metaverse environments and virtual retail spaces


👁 Thematic and Scholarly Vision

The journal envisions the following content-related aspirations:

  • Becoming a conceptual reference for digital business theory-building across Asia and the Middle East

  • Serving as the most dynamic Persian-language scientific medium in digital commerce at an international level

  • Acting as a thought leader in academic discourse on metaverse, blockchain, neobanks, and super apps

  • Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars in management, engineering, psychology, and economics

  • Inspiring new metrics, models, and algorithms for smart organizational design

  • Creating a research gateway for empirical, field-based, and co-authored studies involving industry partners

  • Becoming a doctoral and postdoctoral reference point for advanced studies in electronic commerce

  • Functioning as a trend-mapping hub for global digital economy trajectories, consumer futures, and techno-innovation strategies