Despite rapid and sustained development of electronic commerce, many companies doing e-business are still in the investment and brand-building phase and have yet to show a profit. However, as e-businesses shift their focus from building a customer base to increasing revenue growth and profitability, they should re-evaluate their current business strategies, if any, and develop strategies that p...

As E-commerce is developing in China, using E-commerce becomes more important to small and medium enterprise (SMEs). The small business has several advantages, including low cost and the ability to begin on a part-time basis. E-business technology can strengthen these advantages. In this paper, the authors introduce the ECRM and E-business strategy in enterprise and use VAR model to analyze how...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to examine the elements that make up what has been traditionally referred to as electronic commerce and is now coming to be referred to as electronic business. It will do this in the context of a major Australian initiative in the area.

E-Gov projects have an increasing influence on how government business processes evolve and change. While early e-Gov projects focused on government-to-public information and interaction, the second and third wave of e-Gov projects also emphasize internal effectiveness and efficiency along with intraand interdepartmental as well as intraand inter-branch integration. With these increases in scop...

The Center for Technology in Government (CTG) in collaboration with SAP, the business software solutions provider to public sector organizations, conducted a research project focusing on improving government’s ability to assess public returns on IT investments. The work conducted for this project and presented in this poster will be of particular interest to dg.o attendees since the project was...

E-government has been recognized as a change agent for public sector reform. Through this change, the public sector organisation plans to increase operating efficiencies, build information-sharing partnerships and improve communication with other organisations, as well as with the public. Several studies have discussed how e-government will transform public sector organisations from traditional...

The literature provides an extensive list of incentives and barriers to adoption and use of e-business and e-commerce information technology (EEIT) by small and medium businesses (SMEs). The objective of this current research was to consolidate these factors and determine their level of influence, either positively or negatively from the adopter’s perspective, on the adoption decision. A set of...

The Asia-Pacific region is growing in e-commerce adoption despite a global economic slowdown. Developed countries rhat have been offering e-commerce have shown impressive performance iu their respective economies, but the Asia-Pacific region srill lags behind in the e-business race. This is due ro several factors which include language. educarion, technology, and technical infrcistrucrure. The ...

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This paper develops a framework differentiating three dimensions in e-business: e-information, e-communication and e-workflow. The methodology employed (web content analysis on the company’s website) allows evaluation of these e-business dimensions. The main research objective is directed to an examination of the relationship between e-business and firm performance. Additionally, differences in...