B2B E-commerce marketplaces and MSMES

Barriers to Adoption of B2B E-marketplaces: An Empirical Study of Indian Manufacturing MSMEs

Research in B2B e-marketplaces has mainly focused on large organisations and literature on small firm’s perception and use of B2B e-marketplaces, specifically in Indian context has been limited. As MSMEs constitute 95 per cent of all industrial units in India, enhancing their competitiveness in globalized economy is the priority of the Government. Review of literature on B2B e-marketplace shows...

Rethinking B2B E-Marketplaces and Mobile Commerce: From Information to Execution

This article investigates the interface between the exchange relationship in the digital economy and the emerging and continuously improving wireless technology. Exchanges become highly relevant when we look at how collaborative processes are performed. A special emphasis is placed on enabling collaboration between multiple business partners. In most cases, companies require standardization of ...

The Role of Trust in B2B Electronic Commerce - Evidence from Two e-Marketplaces

The primary purpose of the current research has been to examine the roles of interpersonal, interorganizational, and institutional trust in establishing buyer-seller trust in public B2B e-marketplaces (EMP). Interpersonal trust refers to trust within the buyer-seller dyad. Interorganizational trust is trust between organizations, in this case mainly the buying and the selling company versus the...

Enabling Flexible, Adaptive B2B E-Commerce Workflows

We believe a source of dynamic organizational processes poised for exponential growth is B2B electronic commerce. In addition to serving as aggregators of product information, all major electronic marketplaces (i2, Ariba, CommerceOne, et al.) are developing infrastructure for the sharing of business process definitions and the augmentation of inter-organizational workflows. XML frameworks for t...

Evolution of B2B Marketplaces