This paper presents a conceptual framework for evaluating the adoption of electronic market for electronic business in small and medium-sized enterprises in Australia. Such a conceptual framework is built on a comprehensive analysis of existing research in electronic market, in particular in relation to the value drivers and the critical success factors for adopting e-market in electronic busin...

Electronic marketplaces are an upcoming model for business-to-business electronic commerce. In electronic marketplaces, companies can offer their services and products. Other companies can search for products in the marketplace to find new business partners. Once contact between two business partners has been established, a negotiation starts in order to reach a formal agreement on their busine...

Electronic transactions are of increasing use due to its openness and continuous availability. The rapid growth of information and communication technologies has helped the expansion of these electronic transactions, however, issues related to security and trust are yet limiting its action space, mainly in what concerns business to business activity. This paper introduces an Electronic Institut...

widespread usage of web technology provides an opportunity for business in order to use internet as the tool for management of electronic relationship with costumers. organizations that undertake expense of investment in this field, one of their primary purposes is improvement of satisfaction of costumers. for this reason, in most of organizations which use the system of electronic relationship...

While the field of electronic commerce has often focused on the rise and fall of “dot coms,” a major transformation is under way in many traditional organizations that are investing heavily in Internet technologies in order to improve financial performance. While anecdotes in the business press suggest that some firms have achieved unprecedented benefits by leveraging the Internet, there is no ...

While the field of electronic commerce has often focused on the rise and fall of “dot coms,” a major transformation is under way in many traditional organizations that are investing heavily in Internet technologies in order to improve financial performance. While anecdotes in the business press suggest that some firms have achieved unprecedented benefits by leveraging the Internet, there is no ...

Standardized business documents, data definitions, item description and identification, and business processes have been seen as key to effective interorganizational commerce since the 1980s, when electronic data interchange (EDI) became the technology of choice for business-to-business coordination. Vertical information systems (VIS) standards are designed to promote communication and coordina...

In today’s global economy, electronic business has offered great advantages to enhance the capabilities of traditional businesses. In order to satisfy the imposed requirement for businesses to coordinate with each other, electronic business partners are chosen to be represented by service agents. These agents need to understand each others’ service descriptions before successful coordination ha...

This paper examines the impact of electronic commerce on business-level strategies. The paper examines electronic commerce (E.C) from the perspective of intra-business E.C., business-to-business E.C., business-toconsumer E.C., and value/supply chain management. Business-level strategies are considered to include: addedvalue, differentiation, cost leadership, focus, and growth source. The paper ...