Purchasing professionals in today's business-to-business (B2B) markets can choose between conducting bid solicitations and negotiations using an online or offline process. One dominant type of online procurement has been the online reverse auction, which has received both praise and criticism....

Although a considerable amount of documentation has been published on the alleged benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, rigorous theoretically supported research into this topic has been limited. Furthermore, with the recent popularity of new technologies such as those...

The practice of electronic procurement has gained popularity over the last ten years, and so has the research on this emerging area. While first reports in the 1990s focused on general descriptions and best practices, more recent studies have dealt with specific and refined applications of this...