It is widely considered that industrial networks are vital to the operation of small and medium sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. In addition, it has been suggested that all organisations need to adopt some e-business tools and techniques to survive in the long term. This discussion paper presents an account of how e-business tools and techniques will affect the set-up and operatio...

Much current e-commerce subscribes to very simple interaction models. Many of the potentialities of e-commerce are identical to those that have been under study for some time in the field of automated workflow management systems. In this ( ) paper, we describe a new workflow interoperability model, the monitored–nested model MNM , and show that it can support optimized, extended e-commerce tran...

Driven by IT innovations and new business paradigms, the transformation of traditional business models and business architectures to electronic business is imposing huge challenges particularly for large organizations. This paper introduces business engineering, the discipline of collaborative, model-based conceptualization, design, and implementation of transformations in companies and in admi...

A field study was conducted to determine organizational readiness for implementing Ebusiness solutions by utilizing drivers suggested in the business process reengineering literature. Based on a literature review, we theorized a schematic framework to reflect the anticipated relationships between the independent variables of technology team capabilities, nature and scope of legacy business appl...

trust services, accountability, identity, B2B, e-commerce To be successful, e-commerce solutions need to properly address accountability issues. Accountability is fundamental to business, and identity is fundamental to accountability. This paper analyses the role identity services play in supporting business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. There are many good reasons for outsourcing identity mana...

Market transparency, in its most succint form, refers to the level of current trade information revealed to the public by market makers. We analyze the effect of market transparency on the outcomes of postedoffer style B2B markets under both stationary and non-stationary demand conditions. We find that sellers on average can extract significantly higher surplus than buyers, yet the difference d...

The objective of this qualitative study was to understand the factors that hinder large industry organizations in implementing e-Business solutions. The study included 4 organizations that operated in heterogeneous business networks consisting also of small partners. Interviews were conducted with managers of IT, purchasing and business development. The results indicate that the organizations f...

This paper proposes a conceptual modeling approach for requirements engineering for e-business systems that enables alignment of systems requirements with business strategy. Jackson problem diagrams and goal modeling are employed to capture business strategy. As a means of linking abstract, high-level business requirements to low-level system requirements, we leverage the paradigm of projection...