The adoption of the Internet as a business strategy tool is becoming an important way for firms to expand their business through innovative strategies. This study provides an insight concerning the factors that influence the adoption of the Internet to support business activities, also known as e-business among SMEs in Malaysia. In addition, the study also examines the relationship between e-bu...

In this paper, E-business and traditional business is investigated based on the modified Akerlof model to explain the reason why the E-business has developed rapidly in case of information asymmetry; on the other hand, adverse selections appear in the traditional business. In the end, the corresponding suggestions are put forward on coordinated development of the E-business and traditional busi...

Businesses face significant obstacles in interacting with public administrations across Europe. On the other hand there is recently a clear trend of governments to deliver electronic services (“e-government”) through integrated, customer -oriented mechanisms (“one-stop government”). However, related efforts both within and outside the European Union – are nationally focused and do not address t...

E-business offers buyers and sellers a new form of communication and provides an opportunity to create new marketplaces. Theoretical studies suggest in general that the development of e-business results in higher firm performance as a result of lower search and head-to-head comparison costs. However, there are a number of recent theoretical studies, which demonstrate that the growth of e-commer...

E-business software solutions allow the integration of intra and inter firm business processes; it involves business processes spanning the entire value chain: electronic purchasing and supply chain management, processing orders electronically, handling customer service, and cooperating with business partners.According to the empirical analysis, we can get that there exist a long-term equilibri...

the implementation of inter-organizational systems like business- to- business e-commerce (b2b e-commerce)  is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. companies need to consider their own strengths and weaknesses before making decisions to explore new b2b e-commerce without...

Using the concept of business models can help companies understand, communicate, share, change, measure, simulate and learn more about the different aspects of e-Business in their firms. Better understanding of e-Business models helps managers and related staff to better apply the business models. The main objective of this paper is to use Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) as a useful tool to capture t...

Since the introduction of the Internet and e-commerce in the mid-1990s, there has been a lot of hype surrounding e-business, the impact that it will have on the way that companies do business, and how it will change the global economy as a whole. Since the crash of the dotcom companies in 2001, there has been much less hype surrounding the use of the Internet for business. There seems to have b...

Background Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is increasingly finding the way into all fields of human society. This development results from the believe, that computerised workflow is quicker, more efficient, and cost-effective than the traditional workflow [1]. A few years ago e-business began to reach local governments. The label e-government comprises applications and objectives...

In this paper we propose a framework to support a preliminary planning of services in the eGovernment domain, where we consider the case of Government to Business (G2B) interaction. The present work is founded in the context of the Service Science, an emerging effort to build a scientific discipline based on the concept of service. Services apply in a broad range of different domains, such as, ...