Classification systems are often used in the e-Business domain to arrange products into different categories (classes). Within this field, the reclassification deals with the challenges that occur whenever two or more product catalogs are based on different classification systems. In this situation, it is necessary to re-arrange the product into another class--structure in order to enable a sem...

This paper presents a framework for the classification of indicators used to measure ecommerce and e-business. This framework is presented in the so-called E-Business Effect Matrix. It consolidates developments around the widely used OECD framework of readiness, intensity and impact on the company level. The E-Business Effect Matrix visualizes the whole spectrum of e-business effects. It relate...

Value assessment of e-government services remains a challenging task. In this study, we apply a value creation model of electronic business and value for money assessment approach of e-government service in an attempt to better understand value creation from the municipality perspective. By conducting semistructured interviews and analysis of e-government service data we investigate how digital...

While healthcare is the biggest service industry on the globe it has yet to realize the full potential of ehealth, which is in stark contrast to other e-business initiatives such as e-government and eeducation, e-finance or e-commerce. This is due to many reasons including the fact that the healthcare industry is faced with many complex challenges in trying to deliver cost-effective, highvalue,...

The information and communication technology evolution is affecting many nations around the world through one of its emerging transformational platforms, the digital economy. Therefore, electronic business with its different sub and parallel categories such as electronic commerce, electronic government and electronic learning and more is increasingly becoming the way to do business, learn, gove...

Purpose – To investigate the role of business process redesign (BPR) in creating citizen-centred e-government. Design/methodology/approach – It is argued in this paper that the evolutionary-based development of BPR is better positioned to expand the use e-commerce technology in the public sector. The Venkatraman model of IT-enabled change is used in order to investigate the extent to which BPR ...

E-businesses play a critical role in today's knowledge-based economies. Despite their ‎increasing portion, e-businesses experience high rates of failure. Therefore, it is of prime ‎importance to identify their decision-making activities encountering outer competitive forces ‎and their internal structural events. In this study, through using the Grounded Theory approach, we ‎analyze interviews c...

In recent years, scepticism about the value of e-business and information technology (IT) at the level of an individual firm has been renewed. In this sense, information systems researchers face pressure to answer the question of whether and how e-business creates value. To respond to this challenge, this paper develops a conceptual model, grounded in the resource-based theory, for assessing e-...

E-government is becoming extremely important, however, it can not be successfully implemented without changes in business processes that are performed inside governmental institutions. Public sector has some specifics, which make renovation projects considerably different. It is clear that radical changes in the execution of business processes and in the organizational structures are not suitab...