This Special Issue, taking five years to come to fruition, presents the latest research on strategic management in private and family businesses in Asia Pacific regions. Asia Pacific societies have a long history of private and family businesses. For example, a Chinese classic, Records of the Grand Historian (known by its Chinese name Shiji, which was written from 109 BC to 91 BC), includes a c...

The process of buying, selling or interacting with customers via Internet, Tele-sale, Smart card or other computer network is referred to as Electronics Commerce. Whereas online trade has been touting its flexibility, convenience and cost savings, the newest entrant is wireless e-commerce. This form of business offers many attractions; including 24 hours seven days’ open shop–business, vastly r...

We built a system to infer semantic categories of businesses (Auto-Categorization) from Yelp.com based on business titles and reviews. Auto-Categorization is accomplished by training a Näıve Bayes classifier on labeled word frequencies (supervised learning). We extend this classifier by using Expectation-Maximization to bootstrap off of unlabeled word frequencies (semi-supervised learning). Giv...

This article focuses on computing in very small businesses (VSB). We have defined a business to be very small if it has less than 50 employees. They have been ignored in the mainstream MIS literature. However, given that small businesses constitute a significant portion of the U.S. economy and that computers are making widespread inroads into small businesses, a serious investigation is warrant...

The importance of consumer trust to the success of online businesses is well documented in the literature. Given the global nature of online transactions, an important question is whether trust and trust formation differ across cultures. This study compared Hong Kong and U.S. consumer trust in online businesses. Specifically, the study examined security and privacy risks related to the purchase...

Building inclusive businesses with small-scale producers in the agro-food sector presents challenges, most notably terms of governance and sustainability. These issues were explored through a Danone Egypt Ecosystem Project that sought to promote replicable business model milk collection centers secure dairy plant’s sourcing while contributing socio-economic development smallholders. Quality man...

Collaborative Businesses are often interpreted as the new organisational form of the 21st century. Such organisational forms exist to satisfy complex needs, which one company could usually not satisfy on its own. This means that the participating companies in Collaborative Businesses are to a certain degree dependent on each other. From a business-IT alignment perspective, Collaborative Busines...

Family businesses are critical to the United States economy, employing 63% of the workforce and generating 57% of GDP (University of Vermont, 2014). Family business continuity, however, remains elusive as approximately 70% of family businesses do not survive the second generation (Poza, 2013). In order to augment our understanding of how next generation leaders are chosen in family businesses, ...