Numerous studies of the interaction between buyers and sellers in a market can be found in the rapidly developing research literature on electronic commerce (EC). This interaction usually takes the form of a transaction process, in which goods or services are exchanged between customers and suppliers. (See Figure 1.) This process may involve none, one or several intermediaries or middlemen, dep...

The Financial Times (FT) has used the Internet to reengineer their business processes as an example of Business Process Reengineering (BPR). This represents a merger of Electronic Commerce (EC) capabilities to reengineer interorganizational systems (IOS) such as business processes to improve overall performance. This example of web-based reengineering was seen to have a number of advantages wit...

In this essay we present an introduction to evaluation issues in the United States and European Community (EC) to illustrate the two schools of thought. Following development of draft national and regional criteria, the US, Canada, and EC are working on Common Criteria (CC). We compare the proposed evaluation approaches in the hope that in the international process of developing the Common Crit...

This paper extends the limits to value model of Davern and Kauffman [16] to explore market and process-level factors that impact value flows to firms for their information technology (IT) investments. We characterize IT value in terms of potential value and realized value, and show how each is subject to different effects limits to value that diminish the benefits of the investment. Our typolog...

Background: Due to the increasing expansion of the electronic world in all aspects, e-commerce has found its place alongside traditional transactions and in turn are of particular importance and have left a significant share in commercial contracts. This has led to significant ethical challenges. E-commerce, due to the lack of necessary legal and legal grounds, lack of proper mechanism to prote...

Activities of insurance, like other work fields, have been greatly influences by new technologies; therefore, they must be at the suitable level of electronic readiness to provide more effective information services in line with the needs of new era. But the question is, are the insurance companies in Iran ready to use the e-commerce opportunities efficiently? To answer, it is necessary t...

The thesis consists of three essays on issues important to the management of information technology in organizations. The first focuses on outsourcing. The second and third examine the stock market effects of decisions to initiate electronic commerce. The first essay compares five different contracting theories from economics to determine which best describes information technology outsourcing....