Business-to-business e-commerce adoption has become increasingly important for small and 11 medium-sized enterprises, allowing them to gain and sustain competitive advantage. B2B 12 adopted at different levels based on different resource endowments leads to competitive 13 advantage being gained and sustained in proportion to that level of adoption. This study uses 14 structural equation modelli...

Data synchronization is required for supply chain management in the B2B e-commerce environment. This case study examined the impact of the adoption of data synchronization on three large consumer product goods organizations. The study identified process and structural inadequacies that developed as the result of the implementation, as well as how these organizations recognized benefits and futu...

Alibaba.com is one of the leading B2B e-Commerce companies in China. It provides an e-Marketplace connecting small and medium-sized buyers and suppliers both in China and around the world. Alibaba.com has grown admirably from its initial beginning as a general e-Market to a giant eMarketplace. During its rapid growth, it has incurred challenges and became more exposed to greater competition. Cu...

The literature on e-adoption in various areas such as health, education, learning, security, energy, transport and environment is growing enormously in last few years. A growing literature recognizes the positive impact eadoption has made on social and economic front. Organizations have created more operational and economic efficiencies. Individuals have been benefited by having more opportunit...

This paper presents the state of e-commerce infrastructure in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The state of e-commerce is comprised of factors not only technological, but also economic, social, commercial, legal, and regulatory. Based on the assessment of its current state, an attempt is made at projecting the future prospects for e-commerce in the GMS. E-commerce in the GMS countries is min...

Business to Business (B2B) relationships in Ecommerce are becoming increasingly important. However, there is little guidance available for managers about how relationships should be formulated or managed. Further, requirements analysis for information technology support of B2B interorganisational relationships (IORs) depends on the business model of the relationship, and needs a predictive basi...

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has become an important initiative among firms in the last few years. This study is based on data derived from over 20 interviews with CEOs, CIOs, and MIS managers in electronics and textile companies in Taiwan. This study contributes to existing literature by describing the degree to which various organizational, industrial, governmental and cultural facto...

Automated negotiation can play a vital role in the domain of e-commerce. Researches have mainly focused on negotiation protocol and strategy design in B2C section. Less work has been done in the area of B2B e-commerce which is crucially useful in dynamic negotiation to achieve better profitability for both buyer and supplier. Lack of such researches has a bottleneck in implementing automated ne...

We developed a model of consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce trust and tested it. We expected that two influences: internal (natural propensity to trust [NPT] and perception of web site quality [PWSQ]) and external (other’s trust of buyers/sellers [OTBS] and third party recognition [TPR]) would affect an individual’s trust in C2C e-commerce. However contrary to studies of other types of e-comm...