Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify different maturity stages of eProcurement adoption. eProcurement (i.e. electronic purchase of indirect goods), is a growing reality and it is spreading among companies. However, even inside a growing trend, no and low adopters can still be...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to investigate how e‐commerce may influence international and product diversification. Design/methodology/approach – The current study elaborates the importance of resource‐based and resource dependence theory to illustrate how internal and external...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address how cultures could affect the way different people use the internet. The study showed that there is a great potential for e‐commerce in Egypt in particular and Arab world in general. However, there are many challenges, where people are used...

Purpose – To show how e‐readiness indicators, specifically the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), participate in the work of defining policy problems. Design/methodology/approach – The article critically examines the Networked Readiness Index in terms of its presentation and its underlying...

Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the status of e‐finance and discuss related issues and challenges. Provides data about growth of e‐finance in the last decade. Introduces advances and innovations in e‐finance and challenges facing the financial services...

Purpose – This paper aims to look back at Michael Thomas' 1999 thesis regarding the impact on marketing of the information age. In his view, the information revolution of “e‐commerce” and computer‐mediated markets removes distance as a barrier between buyer and sellers, which could...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore small business e‐commerce development and usage of the emerging ICT‐infrastructure for e‐commerce in Sweden. For more than a decade firms in countries with appropriate infrastructures in place have generally been able to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact of technology on the human resources (HR) function in organizations, in general, and in hospitality firms, in particular. Design/methodology/approach – The issue is presented through an extensive literature review, in addition to...