The electronic commerce assurance market has been estimated to be potentially worth $11 billion. To date, the focus of assurance services has largely been on web commerce (and, therefore, business-to-consumer or B2C) related services, leaving the business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce market relatively untapped. Yet, with electronic data interchange (EDI) being mandated by large compani...

The combination of the electronic business and the exhibition industry has become an inevitable trend of the development of the exhibition industry. Through the efforts of many years, China Import & Export Fair has built a solid basic hardware platform for electronic business, hence made the exhibition management and electronic service e-enabled and web-enabled, then established the outward com...

The papers in this minitrack focus around the strategic uses of convergent technologies that clearly dictate the need for organizational readiness. e-Business models, strategic partnership alliances, technology-focused solutions, staffing, and methodologies are all part of an evolving organizational model needed to capitalize on fast moving information technologies. Emerging technologies are ro...

This year, 2013, is the 20 th anniversary of e-business. In the past 20 years, e-business has played an increasingly important role in both academic and professional communities. Additionally, thousands of e-business articles have been published each year since the turn of the century. We have a sufficient period and sample size to conduct impact analysis in e-business research. However, very f...

This study evaluates 74 Chinese corporate websites by examining their contents and functions to understand the business objectives. It found that business objectives of these websites mainly focused on publicity, and very little on online sales. Firms in banking and construction industries develop the highest quality websites, while firms in public services and retailing are the laggards. Chine...