In order to provision content-based services to their users, service providers need to purchase content distribution rights from various content providers. Sometimes the creation phase of certain content categories can last longer than planed so content providers deliver the content to service providers with delays. The delayed delivery can cause financial damages and inconveniences to service ...

Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic commerce environments are characterized by frequent information exchange. The Internet and advanced information technologies (IT) permit organizations to access information across organizational boundaries. It is important to assure organizations of the quality of information they get from other organizations. However, a well-established data quality (DQ) s...

We examine B2B e-marketplace designs and how these strategic choices affect both operating and financial performance. A theory-driven framework conceptualizes e-marketplaces as network orchestrators that create value by creating exchange opportunities, and facilitating economic and social exchanges. The locus of impact of e-marketplaces ranges from the network, where it accrues to all firms pot...

Business-to-business electronic commerce (B2B EC) opens up new possibilities of trade. For example, new business partners from around the globe can be found, their offers can be compared, even complex negotiations can be conducted electronically, and a contract can be drawn up and fulfilled via an electronic marketplace. However, a sophisticated data management is required to provide such facti...

Many prognoses of B2B e-commerce and its potential for developing countries presume that it is a panacea enabling producer firms in these countries to sell their products and services more easily in external markets by reducing the transaction costs they must incur to participate in international trade. Drawing on data from a detailed analysis of 117 B2B e-hubs in the garments/apparel and agric...

This paper extends the on-going analysis of the electronic markets hypothesis by offering a complementary hypothesis, namely, the electronic hybrids hypothesis. In a seminal 1987 article, Malone, Yates, and Benjamin predicted an overall shift toward proportionately more use of electronic markets rather than electronic hierarchies. However, critics of this hypothesis have highlighted various fac...

With organizational investments in B2B e-commerce expected to soar, it is important for senior managers to develop a better understanding of the business value of such investments. We propose a model of B2B e-procurement technologies impacts, emphasizing their ability to enhance search, evaluation and selection when product prices are negotiated in advance and only product availability varies. ...

The purpose of this study was to provide insights into the eBook market in China through case studies on eBook companies and a survey research with individual eBook users. The information from three companies, Beijing Superstar Electric Company, Beijing Founder APABI Technology Limited, and Beijing Sursen Electronic Technology Company Limited, showed that the B2B market has been developed due t...