The increasing demand for doing business online calls for higher business interoperability on e-marketplaces (EMp). This drives the development of integration technologies for improving EMp functions. This paper argues that by comparing the cost of business interoperability on EMp brought by the integration technology, firms will more favour joining in public EMp than selfbuilding private EMp. ...

PayPal is an account-based system that allows anyone with an email address to send and receive online payments. This service is easy to use for customers. Members can instantaneously send money to anyone. Recipients are informed by email that they have received a payment. PayPal is also available to people in 38 countries. This paper starts with introduction to the company and its services. The...

We explore the theoretical foundations of value creation in e-business by examining how 59 American and European e-businesses that have recently become publicly traded corporations create value. We observe that in e-business new value can be created by the ways in which transactions are enabled. Grounded in the rich data obtained from case study analyses and in the received theory in entreprene...

The paper first gives an overview of the foundations of e-business. This is accomplished by specifying and differentiating e-business. In addition to this, the spectrum of e-business is outlined. Some reasoning is dedicated to the relevance of e-business in terms of performance potential, range of applications, innovation and implementation. The second part of the paper deals with the critical ...

Small and the medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are socially and economically very important since they represent 99% of all enterprises in the EU and 96.2% of all enterprises in Slovenia. In the paper, the comparison of the e-business in Slovenian and in the EU countries is presented. Not only infrastructure is needed to extend e-business among SMEs what could be the case among Slovenian SMEs. E...

Partner Relationship Management Systems are implemented in many companies to improve the relations to important partners along the value-chain. The goal is to differentiate themselves from competitors and their products. That leads to different types of relationships between customers, suppliers and other market-participants. Some of these types require a mediator, that connects the partners, i...

This paper describes three related, high-level, strategic patterns that deal with the issue of capacity planning for an e-Business facility. The first, "Build-in Redundancy" suggests that extra capacity is needed in Web service provision to account for increases in demand and component downtime. "Overbuild Sucks" then tempers the consequences of redundancy and, finally, "Share Resources Careful...