In addition to producing a pervasive standard and a technology framework, the Web Service initiative has prompted businesses to re-examine their service delivery channels. Back-end systems are already in place to capture business knowledge and manage operational strategies and procedures. Web Services enable access to such systems, as well as basic orchestration. The infrastructure is in place ...

Electronic Office is a tool which can be used by an organization to automate an unlimited variety of business processes, without having to write a single line of code. The main step in automating a given business process using Electronic Office is essentially to identify the process participants, categorized into originators and resource persons. Thereafter, Electronic Office enables instantiat...

It is already widely known fact that e-business has been adopted across industries to better manage internal business processes as well as interfacing activities. Different types of e-business systems including E-CRM, E-SCM, ERP1/2 among others are used to manage above mentioned processes. Both in the academic and the business worlds e-business has received undivided attention for over decade n...

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...

Recent research suggests that the majority of the Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) ebusiness research focusses primarily on studying innovation diffusion within the SMEs themselves with limited research into the supply-side of innovation diffusion This study examines the supply side of innovation diffusion to SMEs in south east United Kingdom (UK). It aims to examine and provide an ind...

Standard e-business document types are usually too ambiguous due to an overwhelming choice of data elements. Business partners must agree on a shared subset and adapt their application interfaces accordingly. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cannot perform this task. UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) provides a methodology to define unambiguous business collaborations allowing software ...

This exploratory study investigates the relationships between training supply, e-business competence and e-business performance in SMEs. More specifically, we investigate whether the provision of training lead to more competence, and eventually, to better performance in the context of e-business. This issue has received interest from researchers in the general field of SME research, but few stu...

This paper presents critical limitations of existing telework literature, which views teleworkers as a homogeneous group and generalises research outcomes without limitations on applicability, thereby failing to consider the different circumstances of the individual teleworkers. This paper reports on the pilot study that examined telework in the business-to-consumer e-business application as pa...

The Chinese e-business industry has a number of unusual features. Institutional factors such as strong nationalism, the state's entrenchment in the economy, political cognitive and political normative factors, regulative uncertainty, the role of professional associations, and the importance of business and social networks are deeply reflected in China's e-business development pattern. We argue ...

E-business has been rapidly growing in the retailing and service industries. As an innovative mode for selling and delivering products/services, e-business model involves both technological and strategic changes. It has been observed that firms in the same industry may adopt e-business model at different paces. Questions remain why some firms tend to actively implement e-business while others t...