The rapid of growth in e-Commerce/e-Business provides new opportunities and challenges for next generation Internet and telecommunication service providers. The collective global e-Commerce activities are estimated to exceed $6 trillion dollars in 2004. However, a key element in successful e-Commerce/e-Business operation is the improved integration and management of the e-Business value chains ...

With unexampled advantages, E-business has developed quickly, and enterprises should have to grasp this opportunity. At present, the problems about expanding the enterprise exports by E-business mainly include that the innovation of international trade enterprise mode in the E-business environment is deficient, the informationization level of enterprise should be further enhanced, the senior E-...

A growing number of firms are competitively entering into e-Business because they see the high potential of e-Business growth as an opportunity. The positive expectation of the e-Business market leads most firms to go into e-Business, but it is not clear what kinds of benefits firms gain through e-Business. In this paper, we examine whether firms’ economic benefits are related to e-Business act...

In this chapter, we study what semantic technologies can bring to the e-business domain and how they can be applied to it. After an overview of the goals to be achieved by e-business applications we detail a large panel of existing e-business standards, with a specific focus on B2B (Business to Business) and their current modus operandi. Furthermore we also present some of the most relevant e-b...

Facing pressures from an increasingly competitive business environment, manufacturing SMEs are called upon to implement strategies that are enabled and supported by information technologies and e-business applications. Based on the Internet and Web technologies, these include applications such as ecommunication, e-commerce, e-business intelligence and e-collaboration. From a contingency theory ...

1 Allianz-AG, München Dr. Markus Müller ist zuständig für die Koordination der internationalen e-Business und IT-Aktivitäten der Allianz Gruppe. Dr. Ralf Schneider koordiniert die e-Business Aktivitäten in Deutschland. 2 sd&m AG, München Zusammenfassung: In diesem Artikel werden nach einem Überblick über die e-Business Strategie der Allianz zwei beispielhafte e-Business Projekte und deren techn...

This research investigates the procedure for the design of an integrated e-Business system architecture from the viewpoint to support the fulfillment of the business strategic goals and to minimize the total system life-cycle cost. A model for describing the relationship between the e-Business information architecture and the corporate objectives was developed first. This model was then used fo...

In recent years, scepticism about the value of e-business and information technology (IT) at the level of an individual firm has been renewed. In this sense, information systems researchers face pressure to answer the question of whether and how e-business creates value. To respond to this challenge, this paper develops a conceptual model, grounded in the resource-based theory, for assessing e-...

E-business technologies, whereby business transactions are conducted remotely using the Internet, present unique opportunities and challenges for business. E-business technologies are applicable to a wide range of organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no exception. There is an established body of literature about e-business, looking at definitions, concepts, benefits a...