The Internet is changing the transaction pattern of B2B markets. One of the major concerns of IT knowledge-based companies is how to take advantage of B2B online markets. These companies believe that the only possible strategy for entering these markets is to launch independent websites, and they are usually reluctant to enter these markets due to the requirements such as financial resources an...

The last two years have seen a rapid development of the use of the Internet in doing economic transactions (E-Commerce). Now that the euphoria has subsided, it is necessary to closely examine which E-Commerce applications will remain and why. Our paper will focus on Electronic B2B Marketplaces. We first define and classify this category of e-commerce and present the value generating models depl...

The increasing popularity of open standards in B2B e-commerce demands more research on generalized trust. This study investigates how a country’s social trust affects the use of open and closed B2B ecommerce. The analysis based on data from 27 European and related countries shows that social trust in a country promotes the use of open B2B e-commerce, but it impedes the use of closed B2B e-comme...

E-business automates the overall activities of a company and allows distributed systems to communicate their information. Process automation and information sharing improve a company’s productivity and responsiveness, while Businessto-Business (B2B) workflow systems electronically aid the progress of business processes among trading partners, and also help companies to monitor and administrate ...

B2B, workflow, HP Process Manager, RosettaNet Business-to-Business (B2B) E-commerce is emerging as a new market with tremendous potential. Organizations are trying to link services across organizational boundaries in order to electronically trade goods and services. Standards such as RosettaNet, CBL, EDI, OBI, and cXML, describe how electronic B2B interactions should be carried on so that dynam...

Because business-to-business (B2B) electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers, they strive to foster a trustworthy trading environment with a variety of trust-building measures. However, little research has been undertaken to explore trust-building measures used in B2B e-marketplaces, or to determine to what extent these measures are applied in B...

In the explosive growth of Business to Business (B2B) Electronic Trades, electronic markets have received a great deal of attention recently. The obtained profit of trading in E-B2B market encourage market participants to remain in the market. Market participants consist of: sellers, buyers, and market owner. In this paper the expected profit function for each market participant has been define...

Research in B2B e-marketplaces has mainly focused on large organisations and literature on small firm’s perception and use of B2B e-marketplaces, specifically in Indian context has been limited. As MSMEs constitute 95 per cent of all industrial units in India, enhancing their competitiveness in globalized economy is the priority of the Government. Review of literature on B2B e-marketplace shows...

Analog zum Electronic Business wird im Mobile Business zwischen Business-to-Customer(B2C) und Business-to-Business (B2B) unterschieden. Mobile B2B-Anwendungen zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass sie zur Unterstützung von Transaktionen zwischen Unternehmen eingesetzt werden. Mobile B2B-Marktplätze und Anwendungen aus dem Bereich Telemetrie und Supply Chain Management sind hierfür Beispiele. Darüber ...

B y now, the high expectations for business-to-business (B2B) applications have become familiar. Analysts have projected trillions of dollars of B2B transactions within a few years. Companies have begun to deploy B2B integration servers, which connect to existing back-end applications, and send and receive Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents over the Internet to automate business relatio...