With increased customer power, a way of doing successful and sustainable e-business is to understand users’ satisfaction, which drives e-business performance. At the same time, countries are applying liveability and benchmarking indices to make comparisons between cities. While there is no established framework or definition of liveability, a wide range of liveability measures such as political...

This research proposal uses a case study approach to investigate the pertinent factors affecting e-business in SSA from the perspective of national infrastructure and organizational factors. I present a general framework that explains what pertinent factors affect e-business in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The primary dependent variable is E-business Outcomes, consisting of both E-business Capabil...

During eGovernment processes often sensitive data are worked on. The authorization to work on or pass data on should not only of security policy certainly, but also by the technology and/or Business Process support systems (BPS Systems) to be supported. HyPR&A, hybrid process-oriented role and task security model, is a model for eGovernment organizations, which support eGovernment processes. In...

Whilst healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe, it has yet to realise the full potential of the e-business revolution in the form of e-health. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, high-value, accessible healthcare and has traditionally been slow to embrace new busine...

nowadays, world wide web has become a popular medium to search information, business, trading and so on. various organizations and companies are also employing the web in order to introduce their products or services around the world. therefore e-commerce or electronic commerce is formed. e-commerce is any type of business or commercial transaction that involves the transfer of information acro...

The adoption of high impact governmental e-services is not obvious. Especially small and medium sized companies hesitate to invest and adopt. Non-adoption endangers the realization of the 25% reduction objective within the EU’s Lisbon Agenda of the administrative burden of businesses by 2012. On the other hand governmental organisations gain from the use of these eservices. In several cases thi...

When designing e-services it is important that they fit smoothly into the service consumers’ business processes. If the e-services do not fit there is a risk that they will not be used by the consumers; the investment and effort to use the e-services might be too high. In this paper, we describe an approach for analysing requirements on e-services from the service consumers’ perspective. The ap...

E-business is not a new topic, and many authors made many researches on this topic, such as the relationship between e-business and competitiveness, the advantages of e-business, e-business and knowledge management, e-business and management innovation, and so on. However, knowledge innovation in e-business enterprises is an ignored field. In fact, different kinds of companies at present consid...

E-business standards are a critical infrastructure underlying electronic commerce. In many industries, e-business standards are collaboratively and voluntarily developed in a neutral industry standard consortium. To a larger extent, the sustainability of an industry standard consortium depends upon its members’ financial and technical contribution and support. Therefore, it is imperative to und...

The private trading exchange (PTX) is emerging as the cornerstone of business-tobusiness e-commerce. At its core, a private trading exchange involves interenterprise integration and collaboration. Our main objective in this paper is to introduce a versatile application platform for building private trading exchanges. This platform supports the management and execution of multienterprise busines...