Some research institutes include:
- Center for Digital Economy Research (New York University)
- Centre for Electronic Commerce (University of Sunderland, UK)
- Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (University of Texas, Austin)
- Center for the Study of Electronic Commerce (University of Denver)
- Center of Business Information Systems (University of Bamberg, Germany)
- CollECTeR (Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research)
- Communications Economics and Electronic Markets Research Centre (Curtin University, Australia)
- The E-conomy Project (University of California, Berkeley)
- eCommerce Center (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
- eLab (Vanderbilt University)
- ELTRUN (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
- Fisher Information Technology Center (University of California, Berkeley)
- Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies (Dartmouth College)
- Information Technology Research Institute (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
- Institute for Advanced Commerce (IBM)
- McMaster eBusiness Research Centre (MsMaster University, Canada)
- MIT Center for Digital Business
- Monash Regional Centre for Information and Communications Technology (Monash University, Australia)
- Netcentric Supply Chain Lab (University of Maryland, College Park)
- Purdue eBusiness Research Center (Purdue University)
- Research Institute for Telecommunications and Information Marketing (University of Rhode Island)
- Wharton e-Business Initiative (University of Pennsylvania)