In the context of the ECAMP IST European project we are designing a virtual community as a means for helping managers from Small Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) to better understand, develop, evaluate and implement ECommerce projects in the B2B area. In the first part of the paper, we evaluate the importance of designing virtual communities addressing SME managers, and in particular how such kno...

This research examines the relationship between antecedents of supplier integration and supply management performance. A conceptual model has been developed based on the literature on strategic supply management skills, supplier integration, the perceived status of supply management, and supply management performance. To test the model a survey interview was conducted to obtain primary data fro...

TREAT (Teaching Realistic EDI and Telecommunications) is a practically-based education approach which uses a simulation/business game to teach participants how to use EDI for international trade. The TREAT approach has been tested initially in a university environment and, in this paper, the authors describe the process of moving TREAT into a commercial environment so that it can be tested on i...

Organizational impact on information systems plays an important role for tourism managers’ attention towards improving tourism service quality. As tourism service quality depends on information systems, which is important to determine what aspects of organizational impact that are critical to the managers of tourism enterprises to devise effective tourism service quality improvement strategies....

This study focuses on identifying the key elements that managers consider when making the decision to upgrade and integrate supply chain management system that are already in use. A survey of information systems managers is used to evaluate the proposed framework and the results of the survey suggests that managers use certain key elements when deciding on upgrading and integrating supply chain...