Database - Tenth Anniversary Issue
The logic of electronic markets
Harvard Business Review
The market for computer readable information
The market for computer readable information
The role of government in the evolution of the Internet
Communications of the ACM
Does information technology lead to smaller firms?
Management Science
Information assets, technology, and organization
Management Science
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Electronic commerce: a manager's guide
Electronic commerce: a manager's guide
The Economics of Electronic Commerce
The Economics of Electronic Commerce
Online Sources of European Information: Their Development and Use
Online Sources of European Information: Their Development and Use
Computers and Operations Research
Private Markets for Public Goods: Pricing Strategies of Online Database Vendors
Journal of Management Information Systems
A review of research on e-marketplaces 1997-2008
Decision Support Systems
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Information technology (IT) has been able to transform the way many business transactions are organized. Mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, and divestitures are all well-known changes that have resulted from the ability of IT to change the way organizations monitor and coordinate activities. This paper investigates actual and potential changes at the interface between the private and public sectors due to the introduction of IT. Governments, finding themselves with commercially valuable stores of data and software, are beginning to exhibit entrepreneurial characteristics. In other cases, the introduction of IT has created pressures for the privatization of activities previously operated by governments. The introduction of IT has the potential to change the way citizens participate in governments at all levels. This paper surveys these issues and identifies the pressures that would, in the absence of constraints, lead to the conduct of activities in the private or public sector. Finally, the paper examines factors that impede the natural progression toward more desirable organizational forms through the application of IT.