Adoption of e-procurement systems and the likely benefits that organisations can achieve have been widely discussed. However, what still remains puzzling is the variation in benefits that organisations experience from the adoption of even the same e-procurement system. A few e-commerce scholars applied the factor-based approach to help explain difference in e-procurement benefits, but with limi...

This chapter looks into the key infrastructure factors affecting the success of small companies in developing economies that are establishing B2B e-commerce ventures by aggregating critical success factors from general e-commerce studies and studies from e-commerce in developing countries. The factors were identified through a literature review and case studies of two organizations. The results...

The Information and Communication Technologies play an important role in rural development. The Empowerment of rural communities is crucial for the development of the rural region. Bringing the people in the rural region in the mainstream of the digital technologies to access and adopt modern technologies is a major concern now. Rural Development implies both, the economic development of the pe...

This research analyzes the development of e-government in Jordan readiness; depending on the United Nations indicators during the time period from 2003 to 2012.This study can help in the development of proposals, plans and strategies to improve the level of e-government in Jordan. This, in turn, is expected to enhance the quality of the respective citizen services while reducing its cost and in...

Purpose – This study seeks to evaluate a selection of second-generation ebook readers in order to determine which devices deliver the best experience for the user, in terms of functionality and overall experience. The technical and physical elements of the devices are also compared. Design/methodology/approach – This paper starts with a brief discussion of the current ebook marketplace, and pre...

This paper is conceptual in nature: in it, we seek to identify the current trends of State transformation, combine them with the changes in the new information and communication technologies, and extrapolate this combination into the near future. More precisely, the goal of the paper is to analyse how the New Information and Communication Technologies shape the newly emerging governance mechani...