A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-COMMERCE OF NANOPRODUCTS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATION BASED ON IT ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY THEORY

Information and communications technology have a significant impact on many aspects of human life. One of the ways through which IT has transformed human social life is through the use of e-commerce. Nanotechnology as a novel field of science is developing at a high rate. As a result, today more than 1200 companies around the world are manufacturing and distributing nanoproducts in the market. Some of these companies specialize in manufacturing nanoproducts that can be used for environmental applications. Nanotechnology, as a scientific field, can play a significant role in the world economy in near future. In terms of the science of Information Technology and IT Absorptive Capacity Theory, the findings of this study confirm the overall positive impact of the development of e-commerce on environmental nanoproducts. This study, while introducing IT Absorptive Capacity Theory, provides an experimental study of the impact of the development of e-commerce for nanoproducts for environmental applications. The study findings indicate that the absorption capacity of e-commerce of the nanoproducts for environmental application has a positive impact on the development of e-commerce of environmental nanoproducts.