Evaluating e-Commerce Success – A Case Study

نویسندگان

  • Shaun Pather
  • Dan Remenyi
  • Andre de la Harpe
چکیده

The business community in the past decade has been characterised by debate over the value or effectiveness of e-Commerce and how this type of technology needs to be implemented. During this period the business world has witnessed many examples of failures of Internet based business. There is little doubt that the high failure rate in Dot.Coms had much to do with misconceptions regarding the ease with which e-Commerce could be implemented. Unrealistic expectations caused tried and tested business rules to be abandoned as hyperbole over took sound business sense. Although it is clear today that the Internet and the Web can facilitate business processes to add value to organisations, this technology has to be managed with considerable care. This paper reports on a case study conducted in kalahari.net, a well known South African e-Tailing business. This case study highlights several valuable lessons to do with the evaluation of an e-Commerce investment and how to ensure its success. Specifically the case study closely examines aspects of kalahari.net’s IS management policy, and identifies a set of preliminary e-Commerce success dimensions.

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تاریخ انتشار 2006