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Internet and the new information systems have finished with anything that looks like a monopoly of knowledge. Basing innovation on internal secrets doesn't look like the unique and necessarily the best strategy. Time in business counts, and it counts a lot. Reaching the market with new proposals before the competence does could mean creating this space - blue ocean - that gives sense to an innovation...
Supply chain relationships are impacted by the use of Internet and the transformation through its technologies [Bak, O., 2005]. An area of growing interest, however, little research has focused on the impact of Internet and into understanding how different approaches to creating supply chains are suitable for different supply chain requirements [Pant, S., et al., 2003]. While many organisations have...
This study investigates the effects of IT service failures on market values of companies that announce their IT service failures. To measure the effects of IT service failures on stock prices of the responsible companies, we examine the stock price changes before and after IT service failure announcements. The results show that the stock price reactions to IT service failure announcements are negative...
Over the years, several market mechanisms have sprung in electronic market space to tap new value creation opportunities. E-commerce B2B models are witnessing a move towards agent based newer market structures such as facility to conduct online forward and reverse auctions. Consequently, there is a greater need for an organization to know how to benefit from an electronic market place offering multiple...
E-business has developed quickly in China and China is rich in tourism resources. Compared with other countries, however, the development of tourism e-commerce in China has not developed as well as people had expected. It is worth considering what hinders its development? This paper mainly discusses the hindrances to the development of tourism e-commerce from two aspects. One is analyzed from technical...
Trust is a crucial element to the success of e-commerce implementation. The research on the concept of trust has emerged rapidly due to the need of understanding trust in order to improve current and future e-commerce implementation. Although there are various researches conducted focusing on different aspect of trust, there are only few that provide a practical guideline to build a trusted e-commerce...
Practitioners and academics are eager on measuring service quality accurately in order to have better understanding of its indispensable antecedent and consequences, and eventually ascertain methods for improving and measuring service quality in search for competitive advantage. The aim of this study is to rank the dimensions of service quality that affect the customerspsila expectation in online...
E-business has changed the face of most business functions in competitive enterprises. This study examined e-business initiatives in China, the largest developing country in the world, and investigated the impact of two organizational constraints, human resource constraints and organizational infrastructure constraints on the performance of e-business. Data were collected and measured. Survey results...
E-auction is a process where buyers and sellers are able to bid for products via online intermediaries or portals. In a B2B marketplace, buyers usually initiate requests for products or services via a Request for Quotation (RFQ). The potential sellers compete to offer quality products or services at the best price they can afford. Multi-attributes reverse auction which include non-price attributes...
This paper puts forward a new thought of application about the third party assure-payment platform in BtoB mode. The third payment platform has often been applied to BtoC and CtoC, as the guarantee of exchange and payment agency, but now the third payment platform has not play a security role fundamentally. The application about the third payment platform in BtoB has some obstacles. This paper discusses...
The development of Internet generated the wave of E-Commerce, which can lead an expansion of IT industry. This paper focuses on the relationship between of ownership motivation and corporate performance in IT companies because the showing of low occupational stability of managers in IT industry. With an empirical research through all 99 IT companies from Shanghai and Shenzhen stock market as the sample...
Logistics is an important part of electronic commerce, while physical distribution systems have become an impediment restraining the development of electronic commerce. Meanwhile, the application of electronic commerce offers new opportunities for public and private institutions to improve the logistics and transport process and infrastructure. The results of e-commerce can be new distribution channels,...
Rapid growth and expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) have set the pace for an electronic revolution leading to adoption of e-marketplace within the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The advent of Internet offer many business firms new opportunities and benefits. Thus ICT promises to even further bolster the SMEs’ position as the engine of growth for the Malaysia economy...
A Student Industrial Internship Web Portal (SIIWP) has been developed to automate the currently manual business processes. The portal allows internship eligibility checking, registration, student-lecturer assignment, visit schedule, online-logbook submission and monitoring as well as grade book of industrial internship program at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. PHP 5, Easy PHP 2.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver...
The paper describes an incremental advance in search engine from Internet information searching to information summarizing service. This incremental innovation requires only existing text summarization technologies and can be achieved within a shorter time frame than other radical innovations that may require years of effort on to-be-developed or to-be-validated technologies. The potential business...
This paper focuses on how virtual communities have become a new locus of innovation and have been instrumental in defining a new type of company, the user-centric company, in which members of these communities not only use the services of the company to communicate with one another but also drive many of the key aspects of innovation occurring in the company. Formed to service communities, user-centric...
In a real world, it is often in a group setting that sensitive information has to be stored in databases of a server. Although personal information does not need to be stored in a server, the secret information shared by group members is likely to be stored there. The shared sensitive information requires more security and privacy protection. To our best knowledge, there is no paper which deals with...
Internet has opened new doors between a company and its customers as companies are preparing to shift their focus from transaction to relationships. Today it is widely acknowledged that how a company treats its customers goes a long way in determining its future profitability, and companies are making bigger and bigger investments on it. Firms that develop strategies and technologies for implementing...
Nowadays, more and more Chinese involve in using Internet hence it creates a prosperous market for advertising. Nevertheless, who devotes to the market and how they performed? In this paper, we review the status quo of China Web advertising including the Internet users, the advertisers, the ad publishers and the Web advertising market. We also analyze the large and small advertiserspsila behaviors...
Internet technology has brought many changes in the society. In the Web 2.0 era, the role of common customers in business has changed largely. Consumers have become more influential on sales or new item development by enterprises through Internet (weblogs dasiablogspsila, forums, personal web pages, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarks, RSS feeds and other forms of many-to-many publishing). In some extent,...
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