Demonstrating compliance with the applicable regulations for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) requires an assessment of the Iong-term performance of the disposal system. Scenario development is one starting point of this assessment, and generates inqui~ about the present state and fiture evolution of the disposal system. Scenario development consists of four tasks: (i) identi&ing and clas...

Background In the area of Electronic Contracting and Virtual Company Formation within Supply-Chains there has been little research or development work. During this paper we will outline the European Union sponsored project SUPPLYPOINT (ESPRIT 27007) which addresses the issues of panEuropean electronic trade links for business-to-business and business-to-public body electronic commerce. This wil...

The launch of B2B exchanges in brick and mortar industries has inspired the study of the potential impacts on business models of this shift from offline into online trade. Among market parties, intermediaries form a very interesting group, since electronic marketplaces could be seen as their direct competitors. We argue that the emergence of electronic marketplaces both creates opportunities an...

A process model, in the context of e-commerce, is an organized set of activities for the creation, (re)production, trade and delivery of goods. Electronic commerce studies have created important process models for the trade of physical goods via Internet. These models are not easily suitable for the trade of information goods. Lowly codified information goods are hard to represent unambiguously...

The current state-of-the-art in electronic negotiations shows a focus on the trade of standardised mostly inexpensive products in fixed networks of suppliers and customers. To overcome these shortcomings, the goal must be to enable the trade of complex and valuable goods and to support many-to-many marketplace for that purpose. Once valuable goods are concerned, the trade process involves negot...

Due to the increasing use of e-business technologies, the corresponding Net Economy has evolved into an established trade level. It is characterized by numerous entrepreneurial ventures equipped with innovative online business models. Technological advance and changes in customer behaviour implicate that the physical and the electronic trade level are increasingly used complementarily. In order...

In this paper we explore buyers’ and sellers’ automobile transactions in traditional and electronic commerce (eCommerce) as forms of social action. By interpreting commercial transactions through the lens of a social-theoretic approach based on Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action (TCA) (1984, 1987), we aim to find out and explain how the changing trade conditions of eCommerce impact on tra...