The purpose of this paper is to build a better understanding of the operation of a Letter of Credit (L/C) in the transportation of goods. Related and of growing importance are some recent developments in the areas of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and the explosion of globally internetworked computers on the Internet. The commercial viability of Internet is explored along with security and o...

This study empirically examines determinants of E-commerce adoption by Malaysian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Research model for this study was drawn on the literature on information and communication technology, Information system, and electronic data interchange. This study tested seven hypotheses on factors that infl uence e-commerce adoption with empirical data from a sample of 200 S...

EDI (electronic data interchange) messages are notoriously lean and difficult (or impossible) to interpret without additional information. While recognizing and sympathizing with the many criticisms that have been made of the design of EDI protocols, we argue in this paper that there is something basically correct, even inevitable, in the noted leanness of EDI messages. By way of making this ca...

The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the exchange of standardized documents between computer systems for business use. The objective of this study is to make Electronic Data Interchange secure to use and to eliminate human intervention in the transfer of data between business partners so that productivity and efficiency can be improved and also promote its usage between two or more trading ...

This paper is the first test of a parsimonious model that posits three factors as determinants of the adoption of electronic data interchange (EDI): readiness, perceived benefits, and external pressure. To construct the model, we identified and organized the factors that were found to be influential in prior EDI research. By testing all these factors together in one model, we are able to invest...

Tourism industry has more and more realized the potential of Web-based tourism information systems (TIS) to increase the competitiveness by providing individual and specialized information about tourism objects. This lead to a broad spectrum of tourism information systems distributed over various Web sites. But the described situation is not really satisfying for users of such systems, the tour...

In this paper we argue that the use of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI,) allows organizations to redesign the control mechanisms that govern their processes. More spectf?cally we have looked at relationships between agencies and their principals and analyzed what the impact of EDI usage might be on the mechanisms to measure and evaluate the performances of the agents. The paper draws upon deve...

Firms are increasingly using collaborative systems to enhance supply-chain visibility. A key emphasis of these interorganizational systems (IOS) is to improve the coordination between buyers and suppliers through electronic integration. While 186 GROVER AND SAEED such IOS integration is purportedly good, because it tightens linkages in the supply chain, it is not clear whether it is the best co...

This paper discusses a small empirical study that investigates the relationship between electronic commerce and a linguistic theory called speech act theory (SAT). The study reveals that electronic data interchange messages and interapplication communication messages have the structurepredieted by SAT. This should encourage information systems (IS} researchers to continue investigating SAT, ISp...