This study investigates the dynamic evolution of international commerce and electronic trade in the perspectives of Lakatos' Scientific Research Programme and Kuhn's theory choice model. The results are as follows. First, the international commerce an...
This study investigates the dynamic evolution of international commerce and electronic trade in the perspectives of Lakatos' Scientific Research Programme and Kuhn's theory choice model. The results are as follows. First, the international commerce and electronic trade belong to a scientific research programme so called trade commerce research programme. Second, the trade commerce research program is theoretically progressive scientific research programme, since electronic trade is a product from the combination of international commerce with marketing theory and management information system. Third, the trade commerce research program is empirically progressive scientific research programme, since electronic trade introduces the empirical methodology to international commerce. Fourth, the evolution of international commerce to electronic trade satisfies five criteria: accuracy, scope, simplicity, consistency, fruitfulness in view of Kuhn's theory choice model. Fifth, it is necessary to extract the support of external scientific community such as business administration, economics, law, psychology and sociology through the interdisciplinary research for the development of trade commerce research programme.