The rapid growth of electronic commerce technologies and practices has created a tremendous need for awareness creation for organisations such as small and medium-sized enterprises which seem to lack the necessary information about technology, business practices, investment cost and human capital. Often, the professional organisers of awareness activities are also uncertain about best practice ...

Theories of inter-organisational co-ordination propose that information processing capabilities (structure, process and technology) must be aligned with information processing needs (environmental, partnership and task uncertainty) and the fit between both is a strong determinant of performance. Electronic marketplaces dominate new developments in electronic commerce. While traditional models p...

The study examines whether the contrarian investment strategy, implies simultaneously buying previous losers and selling previous winners, exists in stock market of Taiwan. This study utilizes De Bondt and Thaler (1985) contrarian strategies into listed electronic and informational stocks in Taiwan from January of 1996 to December of 2004. The empirical results consistent with the findings of D...

By way of critically examining the nexus between electronic government (e-government), service transformation and knowledge management, this paper explores the potential for better public sector governance and strengthened levels of relational trust between citizens and governments. Within such a context A specific objective of this paper is to examine strategies and mechanisms for knowledge ma...

• Business-to-business and business-to-consumer exchange of tangible or intangible goods. • Financial services, such as e-banking, e-investment, or e-insurance. • Information services, like e-publishing (newspapers, magazines, e-books etc). • Entertainment services, such as games, e-travelling (electronic reservation of tickets, accommodation etc). • Personal services, like e-education, e-learn...

By way of critically examining the nexus between electronic government (e-government), service transformation and knowledge management, this paper explores the potential for better public sector governance and strengthened levels of relational trust between citizens and governments. Within such a context A specific objective of this paper is to examine strategies and mechanisms for knowledge ma...

With the end of the Supermarket Revolution in the 1970s, new forms of horizontal, vertical, and geographic competition have appeared to chaflenge the supremacy of the supermarket format. New retail formats like warehouse stores, supercenters, and fast-food outlets appear to affect local retail supermarket prices. Slotting allowances, coupons, and electronic data gathering have intensified retai...

Capital investment decisions must recognize the limitations on the firm's ability to later sell off or expand capacity. This paper shows how opportunities for future expansion or contraction can be valued as options, how this valuation relates to the q-theory of investment, and how these options affect the incentive to invest. Generally, the option to expand reduces the incentive to invest, whi...

Interorganizational systems (IOSs) are becoming ever more important due to the rapid growth of business-to-business electronic commerce and firms’ increasing needs for collaboration to respond to today’s fast-paced business environment. However, the substantial investment in information technology (IT) that is required and the uncertain benefits have resulted in underinvestment. We use the theo...