In recent years, a growing number of B2B e-businesses are adopting inter-organizational information systems (IOS). IOS enable and facilitate sharing of IT resources and capabilities between two or more organizations. Scholars also agree that information technology (IT) recourses and capabilities are critical for delivering business value of IT. Although, extant literature has mainly focused on ...

For many years EDI served as the dominant protocol for e-biz over private networks. Due to the rapid spread of the Internet, several new Business-to-Business (B2B) interaction protocols have become popular, e.g., Open Buying on the Internet (OBI), RosettaNet, and Vendor-defined protocols such as Ariba’s Punchout process. We will describe these protocols, with an emphasis on their similarity and...

Abstract Social media plays an important part in the digital transformation of businesses. This research provides a comprehensive analysis use social by business-to-business (B2B) companies. The current study focuses on number aspects such as effect media, tools, use, adoption and its barriers, strategies, measuring effectiveness media. valuable synthesis relevant literature B2B context analysi...

The EU is currently modernizing customs legislation and practices. Main pillars in the new vision are an intensive use of IT (Customs becomes eCustoms), partnerships between Customs administrations and businesses (G2B), and collaboration between national Customs administrations (G2G). But how to design new customs control procedures? Very little theory exists, and an inspection of current proce...

“Driven by a desire to get paid more quickly, companies are moving more of their invoices and payment to the internet. Businesses care more about faster cash flow than they do about cutting costs.” (GartnerGroup, 2001). Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) is targeted to the needs of corporates and can be integrated with e-marketplaces and B2B financial settlement for bank-neutral ...

Businesses are increasingly outsourcing key operations and interacting with ever extending nets of partners. Running extended business-to-business (B2B) operations creates the need for more advanced human interaction while advancing the automation base of B2B functions. In this paper, we introduce a model for on-demand business process-based collaboration, namely, Extended Business Collaboratio...

We investigate how eight concepts derived from the media characteristics of the WWW impact corporate success in E-Business if implemented as features of companies’ web sites. We construct a path model for testing our research hypotheses on three subsets of a representative survey of 1,308 cases, 469 general-, 215 which target businesses (B2B), and 224 companies which target consumers (B2C). We ...

While considerable literature examines business-to business (B2B) relationships, the impact of technology on these relationships has lacked attention. IT has impacted the way businesses operate in a B2B context as well as influencing services by altering the way services are delivered. To understand the way in which Internet technology has impacted these B2B services, it is essential to examine...

The adaptation-evolution strategies of firms have been a major area of interest. Internet based businesses operate in highly unstable environments witnessing shakeouts and changes in the industry structure. In this paper, we focus on the adaptive strategies and paths of adaptation of independent B2B marketplaces. The independent B2B marketplaces have undergone tremendous change with regard to t...

n*m to n + m (see Figure 1). However, to provide this service, they must deal with the problem of heterogeneity in their customers’product, catalog, and document descriptions. Effectively and efficiently managing different description styles becomes a key task for these marketplaces. In real-world marketplaces, developing a scalable approach for information integration has become the main prere...