A strategic analysis of electronic marketplaces
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on the strategic use of information systems
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
World Wide Web Journal - Special issue on XML: principles, tools, and techniques
The emerging role of electronic marketplaces on the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
An agent architecture for personalized Web stores
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Web-based e-catalog systems in B2B procurement
Communications of the ACM
The architecture of a one-stop web-window shop
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
An exploratory study of the emerging role of electronic intermediaries
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
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The importance of intermediaries in electronic commerce and also in electronic marketplaces has long been recognised in specialised literature. In this paper, we propose a web-based intermediary for e-commerce, whose main goal is to facilitate the entry of small and medium enterprises into the virtual business arena, by allowing the formation of enterprise coalitions based on the role of this intermediary, which acts as a shopping-window for their products. The main characteristics of this intermediary for e-commerce are as follows. First of all, it offers a trading area, based on product catalogues (multi-vendor e-catalogues). Secondly, SMEs are represented by a software catalogue-designer tool that leaves the definition, publication and update of catalogues of products in the hands of these enterprises. From this point of view, the intermediary represents a B2B/B2C hybrid proposal instead of the typical B2B variety of these commerce intermediaries.