Der Begriff des Electronic Business steht für die Transformation der Markt- und Unternehmensaktivitäten in die Welt der elektronischen Netze. Da dieser Umbruch jedoch neue Denk- und Verfahrensweisen erfordert, herrscht große Unsicherheit im Hinblick auf die "richtigen" Investitions-,...

Standards play crucial roles in many different aspects of today's economy. They can define meanings of semantics, product interfaces, process steps, or performance levels. Interorganisational standards are specifications that define business-related semantics and processes, which are made...

The subject of this study is the theoretical analysis of strategic decisions of firms interacting on electronic business-to-business markets. The methodological approach is threefold. The chapter on technology adoption provides a model to analyze the firms' timing decision to innovate and adopt...