E-business has changed the face of most business functions in competitive enterprises. E-business functions are enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related systems such as supply chain management (SCM) and customer relationship management (CRM), are incorporating decision support tools and technologies. Data mining has matured as a field of basic and applied research in e-business. Effective...

Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...

eCommerce can provide competitive advantage both by enhancing efficiency and helping an enterprise differentiate itself in the market. These forms of advantage apply differently according to industry sector and the size of the enterprise. This paper reports a study of one such industry sector, that of small, owner-operated restaurants within the larger hospitality industry. Drawing on two theor...

The power of Web enablement is that geographical boundaries disappear for an enterprise. Thus, an E-commerce initiative can easily become a global E-commerce initiative. Nevertheless, before conducting E-business globally, Web-enabled enterprises must consider an array of international economic, technological, social, and legal issues, which this article addresses.

Pure plays use the Internet as a market entry strategy and brick and clicks use the Internet as an alternate channel of distribution. Several theoretical frameworks are used to explore strategic and performance differences between business models. Results from a sample of 240 firms engaged in Internet-based consumer marketing suggest that brick and clicks are more effective than pure plays at u...

The rapid technological changes taking place is impacting business practice across all business sectors. E-commerce has become the norm and business models have slowly evolved to take account of the electronic business world. The electronic infrastructure and channels of e-commerce are particularly suited to information based goods and services, after these services are just pushing electronic ...

since the strategies and plans for e-commerce development are different for different industries and since the oil industry is one of the most important industries in Iran, the scope of this research is thus confined to that of the oil industry in Iran. The main aim of this study is to identify and classify the different features of e-commerce development stages and features based on the differ...

This paper distinguishes the three fundamental business design patterns: control, cooperation and autonomy. Today, most e-Business designs are not balanced, because they over-prioritize control. Balance is achieved when one basic pattern is the top priority, while the other two patterns are not ignored. The paper explains how to use these patterns to create one of three balanced e-Business desi...

Innovative e-commerce ideas have often floundered on an inadequate analysis of the expenses and benefits of the idea and an inadequate integration of the required e-business processes with other business processes. We present a requirements analysis and business process design approach that focuses on the analysis of the expenses and benefits of the e-commerce idea to all actors involved. We ma...

$EVWUDFW: This paper presents an open framework for the analysis of security requirements of business processes in electronic commerce. The most important dimensions of the framework are security objectives (confidentiality, integrity, availability, accountability), the phases of and the places/parties involved in the process. The approach is of open nature so that it can be adapted to the hete...