Implementing information technology projects requires a calculated process to prevent failure. At the same time application of information technology in organizations faces various potential risks. Exploring information technology environment in organizations reveals the potential risks and provides a structure for comprehensive risk management. There are various methods available for risk mana...

The purpose of e-business models is to show why an e-business case works from an economic perspective. e-Business models are also important to frame the business requirements that must be satisfied by IT systems and networks. They are usually represented by a mixture of very informal textual, verbal and ad-hoc graphical representations. This limits a clear understanding of the e-business issues...

Our e-business model framework is divided into four principal components. (1) The products and services a firm offers, representing a substantial value to the customer, and for which he is willing to pay. (2) The relationship capital the firm creates and maintains with the customer, in order to satisfy him and to generate sustainable revenues. (3) The infrastructure and the network of partners ...

This paper reports on an investigation into relationships between challenges and success factors in e-business, from the perspective of the acknowledged benefits achieved by large organizations operating within the Australian context. To enable organisations to achieve benefits from e-business, it is imperative for companies to recognise challenges before them as well as to identify critical su...

Building a successful e-business requires such enterprise capabilities as global networking, integrated business processes, sharing information with supplychain partners, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decisionmaking. At the same time enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include features to support supply-chain management, customer...

In this paper we demonstrate that modeling e-business strategies is important in a time where the first e-business disillusionment has taken place. The objective of this Paper is twofold. First we propose a theoretical e-business model framework (eBMF) for aligning ebusiness initiatives and projects. This framework represents an ontology which will allow firms to develop a sound e-business mode...

Most past studies have analyzed the development and impact of e-Government and e-Business in a nation separately from each other. In contrast to these studies, we analyze the development and impact of e-Government and e-Business together from a global perspective. Using secondary data from 113 countries and the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) and IT impact literature as the guiding th...

E-business affects suppliers, buyers, and their relationships in B2B context. By analysing the effects as a dyadic confrontation, the applicability of e-business tools can be assessed. The interaction model is proposed and e-business tools are described from a buyer and supplier perspective in B2B environment.

For enterprise systems to interoperate, as in an e-business transaction, some kind of transaction management is crucial. Current standard transaction protocols do not meet the requirements for e-business transactions. In this paper, a new transaction model is introduced that meets those requirements and for which well-defined business semantics can be given.