In this article we discuss in what ways an e-government project can give both expected and unexpected effects for agency employees and their working tasks. The purpose of this article is to illustrate the fact that, besides the aim to increase agency efficiency and citizen benefit, e-government implementation might also change the salience of involved stakeholders. We do this by focusing on one...

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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...

Firms are increasingly using the Web to conduct inter-organizational business transactions. This type of effort, popularly known as “business-to-business” (B2B) electronic commerce (e-commerce) has caught the attention of researchers and practitioners. Although there is a widespread adoption of B2B applications, there is very little empirical research that has attempted to investigate this phen...

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A request from a powerful customer to use B2B e-commerce is a significant external stimulus for a supplier. Indications from extant research that considers the determinants of EDI adoption are that when customer power is exercised, supplier benefits from B2B e-commerce are typically diminished in the short term. However, with more information becoming available to suppliers using a wider range ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between the use of business to business (B2B) e-commerce enabling technologies and infrastructure, cooperative partnerships between trading partners, firm performance, and a “systems” view of strategy formulation processes. Design/methodology/approach – A structural model has been developed from a survey of Australian companies. Th...

This paper reports on findings into the benefits, challenges and success factors of electronic commerce in the Australian manufacturing industry among the top 500 Australian publicly listed companies. The paper investigates anticipated and identified challenges, benefits and success factors of electronic commerce, and possible relationships between them. The results showed that manufacturing in...

Every time I open a newspaper or click on the TV, some pundit is telling me about eBusiness or eCommerce and its importance. Most of what I read and hear is absolutely worthless. (This may indeed be true of most of what the media purvey, but I just don't know enough about most things to be able to tell. Unfortunately, my guess is that the pundits know far less than a random cabbie in a European...