This thesis identifies and examines evidence of e-commerce in three large businesses (Woolworths, Momentum and Santam) focusing on their Internet branding strategies, the impact of management actions and how those actions contribute to e-commerce success. Case study was used to assemble evidence...

Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines vertrauensbasierten Ansatzes f?r das Management internationaler Kooperationen. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Kooperation als freiwillige Ziel-Mittel-Verflechtung beschrieben werden kann. Vertrauen als Koordinationsmechanismus dient dazu, diese...

E- business is used as a term that embraces e-commerce, its commercial exchange or transaction component. Both are subsets of a larger concept, e-venturing. E-business is a major disruptive innovation that is rapidly changing many of the accepted norms of effective management. So the paper...

Eines der Hauptprobleme, das den Einsatz von elektronischen Handelssystemen behindert, ist fehlendes Vertrauen der Nutzer in den Handel mit solchen Systemen. Die hier heutzutage eingesetzten Lösungen, die sichere Kommunikation zwischen Nutzern und Marktplatz ermöglichen, bilden zwar eine...

Electronic communication media and electronic commerce have become substantial components of economic interaction. Buyers and consumers are increasingly integrated in processes of product and service specification. More and more coordination processes are conducted digitally or partly automated....

Purpose - To provide empirical evidence and explanation of the phenomenon that providers of home delivery of groceries are still of minor importance in highly concentrated retail markets.Design/methodology/approach - Based on a critical literature review three propositions were set up. A web...

The rapidly intensifying adoption of the Internet channel for marketing and sales by incumbent bricks-and-mortar retailers underscores the importance of assessing the impact of the online channel strategies on firm performance in the dynamic competitive environment. At the time when store-based...

The application and performance of Internet Commerce (IC) strategy has become a critical success factor in an industry characterised by volatile change and transformational upheaval. This article presents research examining how IC has been applied in Australian electricity utilities from a...

As the Internet continues to grow in size and capability, many firms are implementing Web-based applications and Internet-derived economic change continues to occur. If this change is revolutionary, now or in the near future, then many managers will be required to rethink their firm strategies...

There is a great divide between the degree to which academic research accounts for the role of managerial discretion in firm performance and the weight given by the popular press and financial community to the importance of the management of an organization. The purpose of this paper is to...