Many companies are making strategic decisions in relation to e-business without a full understanding of the implications. This paper, through the discussion of a case study, will show how systems thinking techniques can assist businesses to make better strategic decisions in relation to e-business.

This paper identifies and analyses the stages and trends of the adoption of e-business technologies in the IT industry in Taiwan. Among them include current conditions of domain and analysis of the characteristics of the IT industry, implementation strategy of the adoption, enable model, application scope and information infrastructure, information service requirement and model, and the key per...

Integrating supply chain processes in e-business in emerging and transitional economies has attracted considerable attention from practitioners and researchers. Based on the theory of market orientation (MO) and the institution-based perspective, this paper investigates the effect of MO on supply chain integration (SCI) in e-business and examines the moderating role of ownership type in the rel...

Background. Information and communication Technology, allows institutions and organizations that doing their business activities and exchanges, with high speed and flexibility. In fact, electronic-commerce has created a massive revolution in Business style and global trading. Objectives. The goal of this study was identifying of Effective Factors on Development of the Electronic Marketing Capa...

The metal industry has an essential role for industrial economy. It has complicated supply chains and composed of enterprises with various scales and characteristics. The main purposes of this paper are to propose an e-Business evolving model and to use it as basis to assess the use of e-Business in the Taiwan metal sector. Case studies are introduced to serve as references for the companies to...

The development of enterprises depends on the effective use of IT and e-business solutions. It is tied to the skillful investment, based on the long-haul and strategic decisions adapted from the BITA (Business IT Alignment) models. However, it appears that the workshop that supports professionally the BSC(IT) project work, in practice, is so complex and laborious, that it is destined principall...

This paper proposes a new conceptual model that represents the factors that determine user’s online trust. The model is constructed after in depth analysis of trust in sociological, physical, and electronic environment. The represented model also incorporates the theoretical and empirical studies related to trust in physical and electronic environment from online user and business perspective. ...