Although business models have been widely implicated as key influences on the performance of firms, empirical studies investigating the relationship between business models and performance are limited. In this study, we theorize and propose to empirically examine the influence of two elements of a business model: organizational form and revenue model on the sustainability of new ventures. We co...

Workflow and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) favor collaboration among business partners and promote the development of flexible and efficient collaborative applications. This paper proposes an approach to connect workflows of several partners using services for modeling inter-organizational processes particularly built according to a “case transfer” form of cooperation. The "case transfer...

The Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive computing power in the form of clusters of workstations or PCs provide the basic hardware infrastructure for business to business electronic commerce in small and medium enterprises. Unfortunately, the corresponding software infrastructure is still missing. In this paper we show a way to develop appropriate tools for electronic commerce by descr...

In this paper we address the concept of business architecture. We explain the concept and, based on a case study, discuss its relevance, operation, relationship with strategy and business models, and value for an organization. We also shortly discuss the approach that was taken to create the business architecture; how it was based on and derived from the business strategy. Business architecture...

in today’s turbulent world, the continuity of criticalactivities in the event of disruptions, and also fast recovery and return tobusiness as usual, are vital for sustainable success of companies. maintainingcontinuous delivery of critical business processes in the event of disruptions isa matter of business continuity. business continuity management system (bcms)is concerned with the developme...

On their route to the electronic era, organisations, release on the web more and more complex form-based services, which require users to enter numerous data items interrelated by business rules. In such a context, it is crucial to provide optimal form layouts, in order to present the service users with interfaces that facilitate their work. This paper presents an integrated environment, which ...

the concept of business model has attracted increasing attention in recent years. specifically, growing number of internet providers on mobile phones are challenged by the selection of appropriate business model. considering the importance of a good business model in the firm’s success, this research investigates the business models selection process of internet providers on mobile phones in ir...

In order to solve environmental issues, transition form conventional business to environmentally conscious business (Eco-business) is eagerly required. In order to promote Eco-business, it will be effective to support finding out Eco-business ideas. To do so, this paper takes an approach that provides business designer with general rules and prerequisites extracted from existing Eco-businesses....

Despite the flourishing research on formal modeling and analysis of privacy and authentication issues in E-commerce, little research concentrates on the possible security risk due to business logic specification. In E-commerce systems, an aspect of this logic is to promise fairness. As the feature ensuring parties conduct their business to their mutual moral standards, fairness is one of the pa...

In a changing world the need for adaptivity in software systems is apparent more than ever, since the cost of software maintenance is a huge burden. Adaptivity is needed since business processes, business rules and business terms constantly evolve. This paper argues for a radical solution making use of the inherent adaptivity of software agents. The Adaptive Agent Model (AAM) is described in te...