This paper describes the development of a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) for the assessment of risk in E-commerce (EC) development. A Web-based prototype FDSS is suggested to assist EC project managers in identifying potential EC risk factors and the corresponding project risks. A risk analysis model for EC development using a fuzzy set approach is proposed and incorporated into the FDSS....

This study concerns the integration of electronic commerce networks into the “sales” processes of small firms. Specifically, this study focuses on integration of an electronic commerce (EC) network in those business processes leading up to an actual sales order. We examined seventeen small firms at the end of their first year of participation in an inter-organizational electronic network that m...

This paper describes a flexible distributed transactional workflow environment based on an extensible object-oriented framework built around class libraries, application programming interfaces, and shared services. The purpose of this environment is to support a range of EC-like business activities including the support of financial transactions and electronic contracts. This environment has as...

Electronic Commerce (EC) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) are fundamental strategic concepts when businesses are forging links with their suppliers and customers. This article argues that both concepts are inherently different and complementary at the same time. To illustrate the deductive classification approach, a case study undertaken at ETA SA provided necessary empirical evidence. ETA SA,...

As the Internet has become mainstream, so has Electronic commerce (EC) become an important part of conducting business. NSS facing EC will be a very important subsystem during the process of EC development. This paper introduces the current research situation about NSS, stresses on the whole system architecture and key technologies, sets forth solution scheme about some important problem, such ...

This paper describes an action research study which focussed on requirements capture for a subscription-based business-to-consumer (B2C) electronic commerce (EC) system. The study used a recently developed approach to requirements elicitation, the Business Rules Diagram (BRD) Method. The BRD method was adapted somewhat during the study and was found to be helpful in addressing difficulties of r...

This study surveys the perceptions and experiences of Australian smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the implementation of Internet-based Electronic Commerce (EC) as seen from the perspective of the extent of deployment. With a sample of 115 small businesses in Australia, this article uses regression modelling to explore and establish the factors that are related to the extent of deploy...

Electronic Commerce (EC) enables business transactions to be conducted electronically, offering many benefits to organisations. While EC has been widely adopted across industry sectors in developed countries, its adoption in developing countries has not been widespread. At the moment, there are relatively fewer studies of EC adoption in developing countries compared to those in developed countr...

The advancement and convergence of telecommunications and computer technology has created the possibility of conducting businesses over the Internet, known as the Electronic Commerce (EC). In the recent years, Internet usage has grown tremendously in countries around the world including in the Arab Countries [Amin, H. (2000)] [ ElShenawi, N. (2001)][ Gray, V. (2001)]. The Internet popularity ha...

Despite the recent downturn in Internet-based business, the dollar value of electronic commerce (EC) transactions is increasing at an astounding rate. In consumer-to-business applications, the amount of money spent by online shoppers is nearly doubling every year and is expected to approach US$ 100 billion by 2004 while business-to-business sales is expected to reach US$ 1.3 trillion by 2003. T...