This article presents an economic model of a monopoly retailer that enables the study of incentives for business-to-business (B2B) e-procurement technology investments that permit inventory coordination and improved operational control. We focus on the information technology (IT) adoption behavior of firms in the presence of agency costs and information uncertainty. We distinguish among three k...

With deeper levels of external process integration and a growing number of electronic business relationships, enterprises strive for becoming more interoperable with their business partners. Although B2B standards are supposed to ensure scalable B2B integration and m:n connectivity, enterprises face the challenge of ambiguous interpretations of standards when it comes to their implementation. T...

Online auctions are among the most influential e-business applications. Their impact on trading in the B2B (business to business), as well as in the B2C (business to consumer) and C2C (consumer to consumer) areas is both remarkable and inevitable. Although there have been considerable efforts in setting up market places, online trading still lays in its early stages. Quite a few companies have ...

This article presents an economic model of a monopoly retailer with supply and demand uncertainties that enables the study of incentives for B2B e-procurement technology investments that permit inventory coordination and operating cost control. In this context, we focus on the information technology (IT) adoption behavior of firms, emphasizing the trade-offs they make between managing supply pr...

Recently, a new paradigm for the e-commerce was defined. It is the Business to Business (B2B) paradigm in which the applications are encapsulated and presented within integrated electronic services: the e-services (or Web services. In this context, ebXML (electronic stretchable business Markup Language) is a set of technical and functional specifications, specially conceived to support companie...

In less than a decade, Internet-enabled business-to-business (B2B) commerce has become central to supply chain management. But little is known about the infrastructural competencies required for manufacturers engaged in Internet-enabled activities with downstream business customers. This paper aims to take a first step in operationalizing a set of new, multi-item measures that tap into infrastr...

The implementation of businesstobusiness electronic commerce (B2B e-commerce) is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. Thus, for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) to partake in the B2B e-commerce activities, they need to have attained some reasonable level of e-readiness meas...

The adaptation-evolution strategies of firms have been a major area of interest. Internet based businesses operate in highly unstable environments witnessing shakeouts and changes in the industry structure. In this paper, we focus on the adaptive strategies and paths of adaptation of independent B2B marketplaces. The independent B2B marketplaces have undergone tremendous change with regard to t...