The growth of business-to-business e-commerce has highlighted the role of computer and communications technologies as well as inter-organizational trust in developing and maintaining business-to-business relationships. Despite the acknowledged importance of trust, only a limited amount of research exists and that examines the role of trust in these relationships. By investigating inter-organiza...

Electronic marketplaces are important because of their potential to change industry structure, for example, by eliminating or altering the role of traditional intermediaries, leading to consolidation of fragmented industries or fragmentation of consolidated ones. Not solely a western phenomenon, there has been considerable electronic marketplace activity in Asia. Because supply chains in Asia a...

Electronic commerce technology o ers the opportunity to integrate and optimize the global production and distribution supply chain. The computers of the various corporations, located throughout the world, will communicate with each other to determine the availability of components, to place and con rm orders, and to negotiate delivery timescales. In this paper we describe MAgNET, a system for n...

Trading in electronic markets is a topic of increasing interest within the artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic commerce research communities. As Internet marketplaces proliferate, programs that monitor and bid in these markets automatically—what we call “trading agents”—will play a significant role. Various AI research communities have held competitions to compare different approaches t...

One potential barrier to electronic trading is the almost complete absence of any guarantees, for either trading party, that each will meet their obligations. Trust can be acquired from the use of a well-known name with an established reputation, when people are involved, but if the traders are software agents, names mean very little in the absence of reputation models. Thus, we aim to establis...

This paper develops a model of electronic service adoption in the context of Internet securities trading. Customer acceptance is an important imperative for web-based service as it influences the service’s adoption. The two beliefs of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, have not fully explained users’ acceptance in the context of Internet secur...

Small business plays an important role in Western Australian economy. Given the remoteness of Western Australia, electronic commerce technology, such as B2B Trading exchanges, presents unique opportunities to small businesses in Western Australia. This study thus explores the adoption behaviour of these small businesses in relation to B2B Trading exchanges. Drawing on established theories, rela...

The electronic trading system Xetra of the German Security Exchange provides a unique data source on the equity trades of 756 professional traders located in 23 different cities and eight European countries. We explore informational asymmetries across the trader population: Traders located outside Germany in non-Germanspeaking cities show lower proprietary trading profit. Their underperformance...

and forestry. To solve some of the problems in forestry and agriculture, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Saarland Ministry of Economics founded the Cooperative Agents and Integrated Services for Logistic and Electronic Trading in Forestry and Agriculture (Casa) project. The Casa project focuses on developing an agentbased information and trading network (ITN). In ...