Business to consumer electronic commerce will need better tools, beyond browsers and gadgets, for the user to take full advantage of the opportunities of the electronic marketplace. On the other side, business needs to rethink their positioning, and to deal with this new customer using new methods and tools. We present in this paper a tool for navigating large information spaces, such as the We...

electronic services, electronic marketplaces, service composition, service delivery, B2B interaction processes Electronic marketplaces represent a significant example for the evolution of the Internet from technical infrastructure to business enabler. Built on top of open standards like XML and value-added services like catalogue, negotiation, and transaction management, electronic marketplaces...

The term business model has been used loosely several times for describing a company’s strategies, revenue model, processes and overall business logic both by researchers and practitioners. Several authors have defined a business model concept and described the constructs of a business model. Still, only a few studies, if any, concentrate on the evaluation of business models. Hence, this paper ...

This paper describes research supporting the development of a conceptual model for understanding the sources of business value of Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Markets. Based on six case studies and an analysis of current literature, Aggregation, Matching, and Integration emerged as the three key sources of business value. The framework provides a structured and systematic approach for ...

Electronic collaborative networks are a prevailing concept in actual scientific business management literature. Because of the occurrence of newly concepts as “service orientation” and service oriented architectures, electronic networks and business intelligence, has gained momentum and revival. In the paper we look at the conceptual design of a framework for the development of collaborative se...

Sulin Ba • Jan Stallaert • Andrew B. Whinston Electronic Economy Research Lab, Department of Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 Electronic Economy Research Lab, Department of Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Californ...

E-business refers to the utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT) in support of all the activities of business. The standards developed for e-business help to facilitate the deployment of e-business. In particular, several organizations in e-business sector have produced standards and representation forms using XML. It serves as an interchange format for exchanging data b...

This work reports on a Financial Cryptography 2001 panel where we concentrated on the emerging business of electronic voting.

Combinatorial Auctions (CAs) have recently generated significant interest as an automated mechanism for buying and selling bundles of goods. They are proving to be extremely useful in numerous e-business applications such as e-selling, e-procurement, e-logistics, and B2B exchanges. In this article, we introduce combinatorial auctions and bring out important issues in the design of combinatorial...

sive development in electronic commerce. The reasons for that are, of course, the Internet and the World Wide Web, which are making electronic commerce much more accessible. They offer easily usable and low cost forms of electronic commerce. Electronic commerce on the basis of the Internet is set to become a very important way of doing business. Forrester (1997) forecasts that businessto-busine...