4. International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange: The major project in this area is the “International Trade Facilitation and Access through Electronic Data Interchange” initiative which focuses on the position and role that EDI and related electronic commerce technologies play in streamlining the international trade transaction process. It will also identify t...

The internet is a huge source of documents, containing a massive number of texts in multilingual languages on a wide range of topics. These texts are demonstrating in an electronic documents format hosted on the web. The documents exchanged using special forms in an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. Using web text mining approaches to mine documents in EDI environment could be new ...

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) implementation is viewed as an important tool for transmission of business data. Yet, its implementation has not reached the predicted level whereby the implementation is often stalled at infancy stage. Many factors were pinpointed as inhibitors or barriers for success of EDI implementation. This study examines key EDI influencing factors and their relationship...

The growth of the Internet has allowed business organisations to participate in e -commerce. E-commerce can exist between business organisations i.e. business to business e -commerce, sometimes referred to as Internet EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), as well as between business and customer. Small and medium sized organisations (SMEs) do not generally participate in traditional EDI largely be...

This study investigates fifty small and medium enterprises by using a survey approach to find out the key factors that are determinants to EDI adoption. Based upon the existing model, the study uses six factors grouped into three categories, namely organizational, environmental and technological aspects. The findings indicate that factors such as perceived benefits government support and manage...

This paper tests a recent model, developed by Iacovou et al. (1995), of the adoption and integration of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems. Their model includes three factors as determinants of EDI adoption: perceived benefits, organizational readiness, and external pressure. Factors were measured in 137 small businesses in the Netherlands. Measuring instruments were developed and used i...

This study illustrates how electronic data interchange (EDI) could be used in conjunction with organizational transformation to generate phenomenal gains in organizational efficiency and effectiveness. It reviews the current literature on IT-enabled organizational transformation to identify key variables for measuring organizational change. It employs the case research method to examine the cas...

The objective of this work is to analyse the importance of firms’ previous experience with different information technologies (Internet, electronic data interchange (EDI)) in their implementation of e-Customer Relationship Management (e-CRM) and B2B. Moreover, we also study the role of eCRM in B2B development. The results show that experience with systems such as EDI or Internet has a direct in...

The implementation of electronic data interchange (EDI) has been claimed to be vital for the success of international trade, as it requires bundle of data exchanges between many parties across geographical boundaries. Numerous literatures have argued that EDI could yield enormous benefits provided that there is integration into other business applications as well as with company’s trading partn...

We present a framework for evaluating the impact of IT-enabled radical process change on business outcomes at Japan Airlines. The framework presents a systemic view of factors that are shown to impact the firm's business outcomes. The framework identifies salient global environmental factors and business challenges the firm faces, strategic responses it makes, and management methodologies and s...