Managers involve their companies in different types of business relationships for various reasons. These include but are not limited to efficiency gains, innovation, and influencing other organizations. In the age of digitization, managers have witnessed new ways to manage business relationships as the number of digital and electronic commerce tools have mushroomed. Business relationships digit...

E-commerce has grown rapidly worldwide over the course of the past five years. Despite appearance, ecommerce industry is faced with many challenges, among which trust is the biggest issue. In this paper, we take China’s largest C2C e-commerce platform–Taobao– as an example and focus on two disadvantages of current trust model: trust is easily manipulated by defrauders and trust dimensions prove...

This article proposes a communication perspective on the problem of knowledge transfer between experts and managers in organizational decision making processes. We outline why this perspective is important and we show where and when knowledge communication matters. After an overview of typical knowledge communication situations in management, we define knowledge communication and differentiate ...

The objective of this one day minitrack is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and disseminate information about important current issues concerning business to business electronic commerce. The minitrack will be conducted in a workshop like setting where presentations of research papers and a panel involving leading experts, as well as demonstrations of innovative and...

The invention and use of mobile commerce (m-commerce) technology have progressed tremendously in recent years. In small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the decision of business-to-business (b2b) mcommerce is a multi-criterion decision analysis problem which involves both qualitative and quantitative factors, and its evaluation may be based on imprecise information or uncertain data. Further...

The full scope of how mobile technologies will affect individuals‟ lives in the areas of business, education and other sectors has yet to be appreciated. Innovative mobile technologies are causing disruptive, tectonic changes that will shape inalterably the way the next generation will live, work, play and interact with the rest of the world. Indian business leaders, government, policy makers, ...

Participatory design involves four types of actors: designers, human factors experts,managers and users. This paper explores gaps between theory and practice based on myexperience with two industrial participatory design settings.

today, survival and value creation in organizations depend on creative and innovative thinking as well as understanding and utilization of environmental opportunities. this research attempts to introduce the organization behavioral barriers which affect the development of corporate entrepreneurship. first, with the views of different experts, various behavioral barriers of corporate entrepreneu...