Until recently, electronic markets were dominated by the combination of static offer schemes and fixed pricing. Static offer schemes such as online catalogues apparently bear the risk of not matching the requirements of all potential buyers. But fixing a price also imposes another risk to the seller the price might not always reflect the current market balance of supply and demand and the speci...

This paper examines the value drivers and e-business infrastructures for collaborative commerce across two distinct types of business-to-business governance arrangements in Financial Services, i.e., (a) electronic markets and (b) electronic networks. This paper addresses the changing dynamics underlying global trading communities as they evolve towards greater reach and range of services for th...

The article discusses the issues of conducting transactions for agricultural products via the Internet between businesses. In particular, it is dedicated to the so-called electronic agricultural commodity marketplaces that are virtual meeting places of buyers and sellers of agricultural commodities. The purpose of this article is an indication of the changes taking place in the agricultural mar...

The need to redevelop depressed traditional markets as cultural tourism attractions has been recognized urgent in contemporary urban regeneration projects. survival and development of these marketplaces can support economic prosperity sociocultural diversity. This study applies design thinking foster multidisciplinary collaboration integrate interactive technology with the aim enhancing visitor...

In this paper we develop a framework for the ownership structures of electronic markets and contrast different alternatives by using a case study in the automotive industry. Focus is General Motors’ decision to join the industry electronic market place Covisint and Volkswagen’s decision to build an individual solution. Building on multiple theories from inter-organizational relationship formati...

The Broadband Services Expert Group in Australia, In its recent final report Networking Australia's Future, recommended support for trials of narrowband and broadband innovations. This paper briefly outlines the planning under way for major trials of lnternet and broadband In Canberra. The Canberra Telecornmunlty Project, cosrdlnated by the University of Canberra, is an attempt to monitor and t...

This paper identifies factors that are driving success in the business-to-consumer area of e-commerce in the US and analyses their applicability to the German market. Some of the success factors refer to critical mass phenomena and are likely to be effective in Germany once a certain threshold has been overcome. For others, specific functional solutions have been developed historically in Germa...

BACKGROUND Poverty is pervasive in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. Most of the people survive by farming small landholdings. Many earn additional income by collecting and selling plant material for use in herbal medicine. This material is collected from wild populations but the people involved have little appreciation of the potential value of the plant material they collect and the long term impact...

Great progress has been made over the past few years in the study of the impact of IT on inter-firm trade relationships and markets. Most works in this area focus on firm boundaries (purchasing or outsourcing) or buyerseller relations in general. Although these works are based on reasonable theoretical grounding and many of them have been tested empirically, they do not provide a complete expla...