Internet technology has transformed the nature of business-to-business (B2B) and business-toconsumer (B2C) transaction-making practices. One of the significant areas of impact has occurred with respect to the transparency of markets for end-consumers in many industries, including the market mechanisms, the prices, the quantities bid and offered, and the participating buyers and sellers. Market ...

This paper develops and tests a model examining the relationship between firm globalization, ecommerce adoption and firm performance, using data from a large-scale cross-country survey of firms from three industries. We find that globalization leads to both e-commerce adoption and improved performance, measured as efficiency, coordination, and commerce (sales and market position). E-commerce ad...

Until recently e-commerce providers asserted how they would “ revolutionize the way construction professionals conduct their business”. In April 2000 approximately $1 Billion had been invested in around 200 Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) industry electronic commerce start-ups. In reality, the amount of transactions conducted in these new electronic market places turned out to be ve...

Market transparency, in its most succint form, refers to the level of current trade information revealed to the public by market makers. We analyze the effect of market transparency on the outcomes of postedoffer style B2B markets under both stationary and non-stationary demand conditions. We find that sellers on average can extract significantly higher surplus than buyers, yet the difference d...

E-commerce has significantly changed the distribution channels of travel products in the world including China. Online channels are growing important in travel service distribution. In China tourism industry has been developed rapidly with the economic development, more and more international travel service providers are trying to expand their Chinese market through the Internet. This paper she...

This article investigates the interface between the exchange relationship in the digital economy and the emerging and continuously improving wireless technology. Exchanges become highly relevant when we look at how collaborative processes are performed. A special emphasis is placed on enabling collaboration between multiple business partners. In most cases, companies require standardization of ...

Business-to-business e-commerce adoption has become increasingly important for small and 11 medium-sized enterprises, allowing them to gain and sustain competitive advantage. B2B 12 adopted at different levels based on different resource endowments leads to competitive 13 advantage being gained and sustained in proportion to that level of adoption. This study uses 14 structural equation modelli...

The processes of reverse auctions have proved useful and beneficial to both businesses and governments. The development of software applications in the field of B2B represents a challenging task for emerging economies. This paper presents various concepts, design stages, development and implementation of a particular reverse auction solution. A website construction, namely www.almejor.com, is t...

This paper proposes that the lack of a theoretical framework able to address policy issues on the firm as well as the industry level in an integrated manner contributes to a failure of developing effective e-commerce policies. Specifically, theoretical approaches fall into the two broad categories of market and organization theory with a gaping chasm in between. We elaborate on our proposition ...

Information systems that link businesses for the purpose of inter-organizational transfer of business transaction information (inter-organizational information systems, or IOIS) have been in use since the 1970s (Lankford & Riggs, 1996). Early systems relied on private networks, using electronic data interchange (EDI) or United Nations EDIFACT standards for format and content of transaction mess...