E-Commerce Promotion in the New Economy: Interrogating the Missing Links in Nigeria
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This paper analyses threats, vulnerabilities and insecurities attendant to E-commerce in the late
modernity. There is a consistent global concern about emerging risks affecting commerce in
general and the field of E-business in particular. Primarily, governments, organizations and
other institutions pursue reductionist strategies mostly exemplified in risks prevention and
contingency planning in managing the myriad of its events but most of these neglect the social
welfare issues affecting sizeable portion of the population. This subset are hitherto believed to
be capable of expropriating the benefits of E-commerce and driving its successful outcome.
Regrettably, the reverse is the case in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is therefore argued that these
neglected imperatives carry consequences for economic stability in Nigeria. Consequently, this
discourse is situated in the risk model propounded by Ulrich Beck under modernization
paradigm. Finally, a pungent advocacy on the need to impress it upon the political leaders to
address these basic issues becomes important for economic growth and sustainability in Nigeria
and in its global context.
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BF Psychology, H Social Sciences (General)