he next generation business is highly globalized and digitized. Enterprises are evolving from traditional business model to an epoch of electronic business and commerce. With the recent shift from Businessto-Customer (B2C) to Business-to-Business (B2B) electronic marketplaces, a new infrastructure to manage more complex business processes and transactions is needed. As XML becomes the defacto s...

In the age of information technology and internet, business processes in many organizations have evolved into a series of knowledge exchanging activities. This is especially the case of multi-national corporations, which have e-business activities spread across multiple locations world-wide. Under these circumstances, for any multi-national corporation, comprehending and responding strategicall...

Many innovative e-business ideas are hardly understood by their stakeholders when articulated just by words. To create a better, also shared, understanding, and to enhance confidence in the feasibility of such verbal ideas, we have developed a model-based e-business development approach called e -value . But does a model-based approach really contribute to the development of innovative e-busine...

Media companies and retailers make increasing efforts to integrate content-oriented and commerceoriented business models online. This has led to the emergence of a new type of business model called content-driven commerce, which has yet to be examined in any depth. In this study, we adopt a phenomenon-based approach and investigate how both media companies and retailers implement content-driven...

This paper explores cultural issues with respect to web-based business systems and web design in electronic business over web sites. Studying the cultural issues of user interface design in implementing web-based electronic business will provide guidelines for the global use of electronic business. This paper summarises recent work on implementation issues for the improvement of graphic and tex...

E-business is to do commercial activities taking advantage of the advanced information network and computer technology. In China e-business has advanced in a certain degree not only in basic facilities and infrastructure, e-business regulations, and general economic laws, but also in theoretical researches and operation. However, e-business also gives a challenge to government and enterprises. ...

At first glance, there seems to be a broad understanding regarding business models. However, a more thorough analysis of existing resources paints a different picture. The term ‘business model’ often remains undefined and a consensus on the elements of business models is lacking. An analysis of various sources, such as electronic databases, conference proceedings, and EM – Electronic Markets it...