Biological and ecological metaphors and analogies have been the source of inspiration for many investigations, models and achievements in computing and business. Primarily, biological metaphors have inspired computer scientists and engineers in numerous disciplines, while ecological metaphors have become suggestive to many business models, processes, and formulation of strategies. Recently, the...

Using control chart methodology, the service quality of a commercial web site is examined. The web site statistics were obtained using a web monitoring tool and then analyzed using x-charts. Analysis of the usage statistics across time periods displayed much variance in the results for the March time period while the April period was more in control.

A company web site is the most popular e-business application across all business sectors. Establishing and maintaining these sites is expensive. In many cases the business benefits deriving from the site are not clear. Despite the considerable expenditure in time and money in the creation of company websites there has been little empirical research concerning effective practice. This paper inv...

Nowadays, e-learning platforms are widely used by universities and other research-based and educational institutions. Despite lots of advantages these educational environments provide for organizations, yet there are many unresolved problems which cause instructors and training managers with some difficulties to get proper information about the students’ learning behavior. On one hand, lack of ...

We have models of commerce in a Web setting: business to business (B2B) and business to consumer (B2C). Now scientists commonly use Web based services to perform in-silico experiments. Thus we are prompted to ask the question "Are eScientists doing e-Business?". Do the infra-structure and models offered by eCommerce support the activities e-Scientists need to perform? In this position paper we ...

A great deal of research works in the field information systems security has been based on a positivist paradigm. Applying the reductionism concept of the positivist paradigm for information security means missing the bigger picture and thus, the lack of holism which could be one of the reasons why security is still overlooked, comes as an afterthought or perceived from a purely technical dimen...

This paper aims to examine e-business from Islamic perspectives. Among topics to be addressed in this paper, are e-business concepts, the legality of e-business from an Islamic point of view, prospects and challenges of Islamic e-business in a Malaysia context. This study introduces an Islamic e-business concept in addition to some interesting issues that can be found in this paper. In Islam, e...

It is already widely known fact that e-business has been adopted across industries to better manage internal business processes as well as interfacing activities. Different types of e-business systems including E-CRM, E-SCM, ERP1/2 among others are used to manage above mentioned processes. Both in the academic and the business worlds e-business has received undivided attention for over decade n...

Received: 15 February 2008 Revised: 24 November 2008 2nd Revision: 16 November 2009 3rd Revision: 10 December 2009 Accepted: 16 December 2009 Abstract This study investigates experts’ assessments of the pertinent factors affecting e-business in developing countries from a theory-based national infrastructure perspective. We surveyed experts (business people, academicians, and officials of gover...

After explaining why business executives and academics should consider thinking about a rigorous approach to e-business models, we introduce a new e-Business Model Ontology. Using the concept of business models can help companies understand, communicate and share, change, measure, simulate and learn more about the different aspects of e-business in their firm. The generic e-Business Model Ontol...