The technological environment in which contemporary small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operate can only be described as dynamic. The exponential rate of technological change, characterised by perceived increases in the benefits associated with various technologies, shortening product life...

Der Einzelhandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland leidet seit 1992 unter der schwachen Konjunktur und insgesamt geringen Reallohnverlusten und jetzt zusätzlich noch unter der Einführung des Euro. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte, liegt der Umsatztrend für die ersten vier Monate des...

'Internet' and 'e-business' are words that have become part of today's business world. Invariably we hear of the effect thereof on the way we used to do things, due to the shift in paradigm from command and control to a more open globalised, multi-polar world. Traditional ways of doing business...

This paper investigates boundary decisions that determine governance structures, particularly intermediaries and external contractors, for executing the primary functions of procurement, sales, and information technology support functions in the value chain model. Utilizing data from 113 firms...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Internet Research, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

The promise of the Internet and e-commerce has led to the increasing use of the web for transaction processing. Many organizations have adopted web-enabled transaction processing for applications such as processing payments online, selling products online, making travel reservations to name a...

Internet retailing is one of the fast-growing business sectors in the UK, and thissector is currently entering a more stable development stage. In this stage, the issueof business strategy and performance measurement, often neglected during thedotcom era, is gaining in importance. Although...