Ecra Co-editors' Introduction For Volume 7,issue 2

摘要

The contents of this special issue were conceptualized in 2005 by mobile payments specialists,Stamatis Karnouskos of SAP AG in Germany,Elaine Lawrence of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia,and Key Pousttchi of the University of Augsburg in Germany.Later,ECRA's Coordinating Editor,Rob Kauffman,who is also an expert in the area of electronic payments and financial services,joined the group to support the development of a special issue from the ECRA side.The result is the present issue,entitled 'Research Advances for the Mobile Payments Arena.' It brings together contributions and new research fro?n leading scholars and industry professionals from Europe,the Asia Pacific region and the United States.The guest co-editors have offered a complete overview of the contents of the special issue,as well as the process they used to develop it.The co-editors of ECRA offer their thanks to the guest editors for doing an outstanding job in developing this special issue,and encourage other university researchers,and business and consulting professionals to contribute new articles on mobile payments and mobile commerce for publication in this journal.