The article discusses the issues of conducting transactions for agricultural products via the Internet between businesses. In particular, it is dedicated to the so-called electronic agricultural commodity marketplaces that are virtual meeting places of buyers and sellers of agricultural commodities. The purpose of this article is an indication of the changes taking place in the agricultural mar...

Collusive contracting with private power plants in Bangladesh has resulted high prices that cost the taxpayer around U$1 billion subsidies. The main driver of collusive is unwillingness politically unconnected firms to engage a high-risk environment. To attract investment, government adopted targeted risk absorption strategy negotiates mark-ups interested firms. We argue this cannot discover mi...

In this paper we develop a framework for the ownership structures of electronic markets and contrast different alternatives by using a case study in the automotive industry. Focus is General Motors’ decision to join the industry electronic market place Covisint and Volkswagen’s decision to build an individual solution. Building on multiple theories from inter-organizational relationship formati...

The Broadband Services Expert Group in Australia, In its recent final report Networking Australia's Future, recommended support for trials of narrowband and broadband innovations. This paper briefly outlines the planning under way for major trials of lnternet and broadband In Canberra. The Canberra Telecornmunlty Project, cosrdlnated by the University of Canberra, is an attempt to monitor and t...

This paper identifies factors that are driving success in the business-to-consumer area of e-commerce in the US and analyses their applicability to the German market. Some of the success factors refer to critical mass phenomena and are likely to be effective in Germany once a certain threshold has been overcome. For others, specific functional solutions have been developed historically in Germa...

Great progress has been made over the past few years in the study of the impact of IT on inter-firm trade relationships and markets. Most works in this area focus on firm boundaries (purchasing or outsourcing) or buyerseller relations in general. Although these works are based on reasonable theoretical grounding and many of them have been tested empirically, they do not provide a complete expla...

Electronic business (e-business) presents several new opportunities and challenges to business organizations through the expansion and enhancements of their markets. However, competing in global electronic markets (e-markets) has forced organizations to continually invest in information technology (IT). Although IT can provide a competitive advantage, its edge is only temporary and lost as comp...

We consider marketplaces where buyers and sellers iteratively encounter to trade. Given some specific trade conditions, the question that we address is what strategies should buyers and sellers use to maximize gains. We focus on electronic markets where supply shortages are common. Under such market conditions sellers can only satisfy a subset of the purchase-orders they receive from buyers. Co...

This article provides an overview of Internet-based electronic markets as a mechanism to support the procurement of non-production related items (indirect procurement). We describe the general concept and provide a number of representative examples. We also put the approaches in perspective with earlier research on electronic markets and intermediaries, point out similarities with other concept...