Stategic alternatives and inter-organizational system implementations: an overview
Journal of Management Information Systems
Recovery mechanisms in database systems
Recovery mechanisms in database systems
Enterprise e-commerce
Electronic Commerce: Security Risk Management and Control
Electronic Commerce: Security Risk Management and Control
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
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E-commerce has progressed from the preliminary stages of brochure-ware to on-line transaction management, and is entering a phase where great opportunities exist in extended supply-chain over the Internet. Currently, much of the focus is on business-to-business e-commerce, where middleman hubs perform broker functions of search and comparison. Their value is derived from providing time and cost savings to participants. As XML semantics and other information sharing technologies become more standardized, and as behavioral aspects of Internet commerce become better established, we would expect the searching and comparison mechanics to become priced at their marginal costs. Business-to-business hubs, or interorganizational systems that do not add value in another way to the chain will find very little margins. In this paper, we examine issues related to Internet extended supply chain backbones from the supplier’s viewpoint and discuss the information architecture of a third party software backbone and how it can provide value-added services to suppliers and OEMs via internetworking standards.