This paper seeks to provide a clearer understanding of discrepancies observed in the level, pace and style of e-business development across countries and industries. It is based on an original survey performed on 1100 firms in five developed countries. Through in-depth analyses of the adoption, use and impact of e-business technologies and methods we highlight contrasted paths of adoption acros...

It has been suggested that the adoption of Internet technologies by SMEs follows an ordered sequence of stages and staged models to describe it. These models postulate that businesses move in stages from basic use of the Internet to the full integration of business systems and redesign of business processes. The European Union and the UK government appear to believe in such models and have used...

The proliferation of goods and services offered online and the growing number of e-consumers are catalysts for the ongoing burgeoning of e-commerce. Many industries have adopted e-commerce technologies to optimize and automate business processes. Despite the co-dependent relation between fundamental e-commerce components—negotiation, contracts, and business workflow—research and development is ...

In the last five years, remote selling-led by online organizations has surged. The resulting growth has created concern among both traditional and remote sellers as they jockey for improved competitive position and governmental entities, in particular US states, over the erosion of their tax revenues as sales are diverted to remote sellers. This paper explores the issues and potential solutions...

Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . Copy right Idea Grou p Inc . The exponential growth that has recently characterized the diffusion of electronic commerce (EC) applications could lead companies of any size to plan new investments, in order to compete in an increasingly dynamic market. The first business experiences show that EC should be considered a competitive instrument not simply affecting econo...

Electronic business (e-business) conducts many activities of a traditional business process by using information and communication technologies. E-business is usually done through the Internet and intranets. As a part of e-business, electronic commerce (e-commerce) handles the process of buying and selling goods and services between business and consumers (B2C e-commerce). E-commerce evolved to...

In the turbulent world of e-commerce, companies can only survive by continuously reinventing their business models. However, because most studies look at business models as snapshots in time, there is little insight into how changing market-related, technological and regulatory conditions generally drive revisions in business models. In this paper, we examine which types of external drivers are...

In many cases, e-government is considered a name for transforming informative public services into electronic mode, although the focus of e-government should be on creating value for citizens as well as public organizations. In this article we apply �mit and �ott�s ������� e-business value creation methods to an e government environment, namely early childhood education in Finland. The objectiv...