B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce provides firms with different business value depending on how organizations use the online network. In this paper, we distinguish two different types of B2B e-commerce adoption: basic and collaborative B2B e-commerce. With ‘‘basic B2B e-commerce’’, firms implement the electronic network simply to automate the exchange of commercial documents. In co...

The total investment of the more than fifty e-commerce startups that entered healthcare supply chain management in the past three years has surpassed $500 million. However, none of these early entrants has delivered on the initial promise of restructuring the entire supply chain, replacing the traditional intermediaries, or at least achieving substantial revenue. This article offers a new busin...

Purpose The significance of market orientation (MO) in industrial marketing literature is immense. Separately, the role dynamic managerial capability (DMC) as an individual-level has been found to be beneficial business-to-business (B2B) transactions. However, assessments DMC antecedent complement MO achieving firm performance are rare. To address this knowledge gap, study builds upon a researc...

The opportunity for organisations to manage their own processes using electronic means has lead to the development of new interand intra-organisational relationships and consequently to the network firm phenomenon (Fulk, De Sanctis, 1995; Powell, 1990 ; Malone, Yates, Benjamin, 1987; Prager, 1996). Business to Business (B2B) and electronic marketplaces (EMP) are assuming an ever-increasing role...

The e-business ecosystem may be deviate from the equilibrium state in its development process. In this article the authors defined the e-business ecosystem health by combining ecological principles, and developed ecological indicators of e-business ecosystem health. The method of ecosystem health assessment (include biodiversity index method and index of biological integrity method) was introdu...

We study how electronic markets that facilitate broader inter-firm transactions affect the vertical scope of emerging IT-enabled extended enterprises. We do so by modeling firms in a three-tier value chain who are each connected to a common electronic market that facilitates direct business transactions across tiers, and that lowers the search costs associated with finding an appropriate tradin...

....................................................................................... 7 Introduction........................................................................................ 9 I. E-commerce: A Need for Efficient Management ............ 11 A. Best Practices ....................................................................... 12 1. Dell Model: A Best Practice ....................

Energy systems are undergoing radical changes that have resulted in buildings being regarded as proactive players with the potential to contribute positively energy networks. This study investigates role of active (ABs) prosumers by introducing a building-to-building (B2B) strategy for exchange between residential units, well building-for-grid (B4G) model exploiting demand flexibility microgrid...

As the global recession has made it more difficult for companies to invest in IT, cloud computing have emerged as a new paradigm in the business IT as green IT. Among several types of cloud services, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution is used by many companies in Korea. The Technology Acceptance Model(TAM) and extended model have been popularly utilized for examining how users come...