The upsurge of Internet and e-commerce strengthens the idea that knowledge is the key resource for competitive advantage, because such technologies offer opportunities to acquire and share knowledge with no geographical or temporal limits. Nevertheless, the experience shows that the practical implementation of new business strategies, grounded on the deliberate exploitation of knowledge though ...

This paper presents an aspect of the ongoing research at the University of Michigan aiming to analyze the status of e-commerce in the construction industry. It identifies impediments and challenges, and research solutions for the identified challenges. The focus is on risk management and legal challenges for e-commerce in construction. Very little, if any, research exists on this area in constr...

Digital preservation research has increasingly been shifting focus from the preservation of data and static objects to investigate the preservation of complete processes and workflows. Capturing all aspects of a process to be preserved, however, is an extensive and difficult undertaking, as it requires capturing complete software setups with potentially complex setups. Further, the process migh...

This paper describes the background for a study in progress of the effect of organizational culture on levels of e-commerce adoption. While e-commerce has been studied in detail, the importance of organizational culture in the level of e-commerce adoption has not been explored in depth. Organizational culture can be a limiting factor on the acceptance of technological change and has been linked...

E-government readiness assessment is a significant indicator in measuring citizen satisfaction levels in using E-government services. It provides an opportunity to learn about the government's strengths and weakness on the journey to excellence. Simultaneously, the main goal of E-government is to create an optimized relationship with its citizens. This paper presents an E-Government readiness a...

Executives remain hopeful, despite recent turmoil in the e-commerce business environment, that the internet will fulfil their expectations and become a source of competitive advantage. The authors of this article provide a historical review of the first decade of e-commerce and its business models. The authors provide a historical foundation so that future research will not duplicate what has a...

For e-government to succeed, government agencies must manage their records and archives of which the sheer volume and diversity necessitate the use of electronic record management systems (ERMS). Using an established business–technology alignment model, we analyze an agency’s strategic alignment choice and examine the outcomes and agency performance associated with that alignment. The specific ...

During the past three decades, the growth of e-commerce has presented marketers with many new arenas for research and application. Certainly e-commerce has become a significant portion of the world economy and in particular the consumer sector. As previous literature has consistently considered perceived risk as a major factor consumer purchase decisions, this research identifies several major ...

The spread of the Internet and development of e-commerce technology have redefined commercial transactions, and a succession of attempts to embody actual transactions has proliferated in the e-commerce environment. Several studies have been continuously attempted to embody the function of negotiations in the e-commerce environment, since negotiations have been performed in most transactions exc...

Electronic commerce or e-commerce is a new phenomenon in the financial markets. The rapid advances made in the information and communications technology sector have facilitated the advent of e-commerce and has resulted in global market euphoria over technology stocks in financial markets. This paper is based on the premise that an initial characterisation of the e-commerce sector is necessary a...