The sophistication of technical and organizational networking enables not only a broader range of business networks and business strategies, but also allows for their faster adaptation to innovations. By increasing the degree of formalization of strategy modeling, model consistency can be enhanced and specifications can be reused in subsequent business engineering phases like process (re-)desig...

The literature on electronic commerce (EC) and electronic marketplaces has long recognized the importance of different kinds of intermediaries and the different functions they serve [5]. The Internet is most often discussed in connection with digital intermediaries [76], as the displacement of traditional intermediaries. In this research, we propose a new conceptual framework for understanding ...

Since the 1990s, business-IT alignment has been considered the appropriate organizational frame for business and IT strategies. Thereafter, with the rising importance of innovative digital technologies for performance and competitiveness, the concept of digital business strategies (DBS) emerged. The fusion of business and IT strategies is presumed to account for the inevitable transformations t...

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 ...

More than 80% of small consulting businesses fail within the first 5 years operation. Small company owners are concerned about failing five because they lack innovative strategies. Grounded in resource-based view theory, this qualitative multiple case study aimed to explore strategies African American use for longevity beyond years. The participants comprised three located northeast region Unit...

Business image is a paramount when it comes to improve company’s desirability as borrower, client, customer, employer, supplier, etc. The most important strategies build up business are creating website, straightforward, easy-to-understand pricing, designing the image, doing referral exchange, encouraging personal recommendations, listing creatively and widely, maintaining customer database, go...