The literature on Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has evolved into a strand of literature which studies organizational change (OC), and more specifically, Business Process Change (BPC), induced and enabled by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). With the unfolding of electronic government (e-government) changes to the way government works also seem to be imminent. Electronic gov...

Electronic Commerce is a rapidly growing area that is gaining more and more importance not only in the interrelation of businesses (business{to{business Electronic Commerce) but also in the everyday consumption of individuals performed via the Internet (business{to{ customer Electronic Commerce). Since Electronic Commerce is a very interdisciplinary area, it has a lot of impacts to various comm...

Balancing business strategy and operations between electronic commerce and brick and mortar channels (‘clicks and mortar’) is an ongoing challenge for many businesses. A group of traditional ‘brick and mortar’ firms were examined in order to understand how they balance strategy and operations between electronic commerce and traditional (brick and mortar) business channels. Results of the study ...

E-commerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods and services through the electronic medium. B2B, B2C, C2C and similar opportunity help consumer preferences and consumer markets developing electronic infrastructure for challenges of the future. E-commerce has revolutionized business, changing the shape of competition with internet (The NET) ,the computer communication ...

Electronic business provides many benefits to organizations that embrace on it. It is true that ebusiness improve business processes, integrate business processes and its corresponding value chain, give speed to internal and external organizational activities etc, but it poses the greatest challenge to today’s organizations to transform their traditional businesses into electronic business. To ...

Looking at the ongoing evolution in electronic commerce there are more and more business models becoming significant. E-shops, e-auctions or etendering are not the only possibilities for a company to be active in electronic commerce. This article presents many relevant business models and systematically classifies them. Mainly the classification is based on the type of business subjects like su...

The potential service providers, customers, as well as financial institutions are constructing geographically the largest global business net in the business history over the Internet. The payment mechanism needed for this new business medium is a very important issue. This paper presents a simple debit-based electronic payment protocol QIPP (Qudro-way Internet Payment Protocol) and its impleme...

Media companies experimenting with electronic publishing are seeking for sustainable business models. Based on the case of the leading Danish business newspaper, Børsen, the move from traditional publishing towards electronic publishing is analysed. After a brief review of Børsen’s current business and core competences, the challenge of ‘going digital’ is examined from three perspectives – the ...

The contract is the bridge to transaction, as well as the core of business practice. Accompanying with the development of electronic commerce, contract negotiation under more complicated environment in advantage of internet is becoming increasingly urgent. This paper briefly introduces the status of electronic signature and electronic contract in China, then presents a reference architecture fo...

Mainly on the wake of the Web Service initiative, electronic services are emerging as a reference model for business information technology systems. Individual applications retain core functions and technology base, but integration becomes crucial. A business service derives from the coordination of different business capabilities. The related electronic service derives from the integration of ...