In Search of Business Success on the Web The Dilemma of Defensive Functionality

  • Authors:
  • Markku Sääksjärvi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 5 - Volume 5
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new typoloay for commercial World Wide Web services. We examine their general functionality and the utility they offer a company and its customers. We apply a success model for the evaluation of strategic planning, to test empirically our assumption that it is dtjjficult to achieve commercial success without both offensive web functionality and intangible products. Our results, based on analyses of data from pioneering companies, showed that a focus on offensive Web functionality significantly improved the commercial success of intangible products on the Web, independently from the size of the product investment or focus on business-to-business versus consumer markets.