With the inception of the Internet, huge opportunities have arisen for intelligent automation of business-based transactions. Intelligent agent architectures have gained acceptance in implementing this domain and supporting electronic commerce and other Internet-based transactions. This use of agents in electronic commerce has mostly been directed toward applications that support transactions b...

The role of electronic networks in B2B relationships has been growing exponentially. From massive internet B2B exchanges to tiny RFID chips, B2B is increasingly becoming e-B2B. Whilst e-B2B has been explored intra-nationally, its international counterpart is less well documented; as has been the role that culture might play in the development of international e-B2B relationships. In this paper ...

In this paper we study how online B2B exchanges affect buyer-supplier relationships where the exchange takes the role of a secondary market in which buyers (of the initial product) can trade excess inventory to address supply and demand imbalances. Businessto-Business (B2B) exchanges such as Converge for electronic parts, Aeroxchange for avionics, and Eurecat for Chemical catalysts, have attemp...

he next generation business is highly globalized and digitized. Enterprises are evolving from traditional business model to an epoch of electronic business and commerce. With the recent shift from Businessto-Customer (B2C) to Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic marketplaces, a new infrastructure to manage more complex business processes and transactions is needed. As XML becomes the defacto s...

Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) can assist corporate treasurers in cash management and can be integrated with e-marketplaces and other B2B financial settlement activities. Its interactive approach to dispute resolution and robust payment options are critical if corporate financiers are to secure the advantages of B2B marketplaces and straight through processing (STP). Cash man...

E lectronic commerce lets people purchase goods and exchange information on business transactions online. The most popular e-commerce channel is the Internet. Although the Internet's role as a business channel is a fairly recent phenomenon, its impact, financial and otherwise, has been substantially greater than that of other business channels in existence for several decades. E-commerce gives ...

Although there has been an increase in research studies of business-to-business (B2B) electronic commence (e-commerce), most studies were carried out in the United States or Europe. There are very limited studies on B2B e-commerce in the Asian context. Our effort examined Web-based B2B e-commerce initiatives in Singapore, an island of 650 km in South–East Asia. Data were collected from 108 firm...

Business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces are Internet-based inter-organizational trading platforms that facilitate and foster the exchange of information, products and services, and other business transactions among many buyers and sellers. Despite the proliferation of B2B e-marketplaces, many B2B e-marketplaces have failed. A well-developed framework or standard for evaluating B2B emarketplac...

Long being seen as commercially unsuccessful after the dot-com era, web-based B2B electronic intermediaries are currently undergoing a renaissance driven by globalization and an ever increasing cost-pressure on procurement departments of enterprises. These systems are getting more sophisticated almost by the day, which is also reflected by numerous related scientific articles. This development ...

A request from a powerful customer to exchange information electronically is an important external stimulus to the business strategy of a supplier. Prior research indicates that sub-optimal benefits, if any, are the typical result of such a stimulus. In this research, B2B ecommerce alignment between business strategy and IT strategy is proposed as a determinant of enhanced business benefits fro...