e-business momentum and evolution in the retail industry

Evaluating the Growth and Evolution of Facility Management in Innovating Integrating and Aligning Business Strategies to Achieve a Competitive Advantage

The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

E-business for the electricity retail market a business to client perspective

In the new deregulated market of the electricity industry the communication and e-Business infrastructure plays a main role for the efficiency of all the entities present in the electricity sector. From generation to the final client there are two markets, the wholesale and the retail market. Specific characteristics of the electricity industry make the communication support a fundamental tool ...

Revenue management and seller pricing decisions in retail industry: An agent-based model

Measuring E-Transformation in the Logistics Industry: A Knowledge Capability Index

The Logistics industry is undergoing radical transformation as retail organisations focus on core competencies, outsource many of their logistics operations and explore online channels. Ongoing research into this transformation process has identified a new breed of “e-fulfilment” providers with a specific set of capabilities. These capabilities can be described using a staged e-business transfo...

The Efficient Usage of E-Commerce Applications by SMEs in the Retail/Wholesale Industry: A Four-Nation Comparison

SMEs in the wholesale and retail industry are impacted by enormous changes in their business processes. Ecommerce-related developments have reduced the importance of physical branches and changed the demands by customers for products and services. This paper analyzes the differences among SMEs in the distribution sector in four countries based on empirical data collected via a survey. Best prac...