With the aid of information technology, electronic marketplaces have multiplied. Currently, however, most electronic marketplaces support only limited negotiation functions using a one-dimensional variable of price. The purpose of this study is to show how online multidimensional auction systems can be used to facilitate electronic trading in business-to-business electronic marketplaces. In thi...

Negotiation in traditional commerce is a complex communication process. Research in negotiation support for electronic commerce has focused on new negotiation protocols such as auctions. However, for peer-to-peer negotiations in business-to-business electronic commerce such protocols are inappropriate. In this paper we present a novel approach to the effective support of electronic negotiations...

B2B (business-to-business) electronic commerce provides firms with different business value depending on how organizations use the online network. In this paper, we distinguish two different types of B2B e-commerce adoption: basic and collaborative B2B e-commerce. With ‘‘basic B2B e-commerce’’, firms implement the electronic network simply to automate the exchange of commercial documents. In co...

E-business is shifting attention from component based to web service based applications. Most enterprises spend most of their time assembling applications by consuming web services rather than worrying about the design principles underlying them, their granularity or the development of components that implement them. In this paper we present a design methodology for web services and business pr...

In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of organizations wanting to embrace IT systems that support the notion of business-to-employee (B2E) e-business. Trade magazines are now filled with many short essays and case reports highlighting the benefits of B2E ebusiness systems. However, little is reported in the scholarly academic literature about the adoption of B2E e-business syste...

This paper addresses the role of trust and regulation where small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union make use of e-business in a digital business ecosystem (DBE). We argue that in order for digital business to develop among entrepreneurs in the EU and within different industry sectors and geographical locations, trust and regulation are of critical importance. The paper a...

As the evolution of e-business technology has passed from the early phase of hype and innovation to the mature phase of adoption and use, the research interest of both the academic and business communities is shifting to investigating opportunities for market exploitation of e-business technologies. As a result, the debates around established ebusiness models, as well as the way to achieve busi...

Interoperability frameworks present a set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitute a method of dealing with interoperability issues in the electronic business (e-business) context. Achieving interoperability in the e-business generates numerous benefits. Thus, interoperability framevailable online 17 February 2014

The term electronic commerce is generally applied to any form of business transaction by means of telecommunication networks. This involves the use of information technology (such as electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail, transfer of money, etc) to link the functions provided by participants in this kind of commerce, rather than physical exchanges or direct physical contact. It als...

Intelligent agents represent a new breed of software with significant potential for a wide range of Internet applications. They have been successfully used for personal assistants, intelligent user interfaces, and managing electronic mail. Recently, agents have been applied to electronic commerce, promising a revolution in the way we conduct business, whether business-to-business, business-to-c...