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Information Services
Published in Michael M. A. Mirabito, Barbara L. Morgenstern, Mitchell Kapor, The New Communications Technologies, 2004
Michael M. A. Mirabito, Barbara L. Morgenstern, Mitchell Kapor
Two terms are associated with the use of the Internet for business, e-commerce and e-business. E-commerce “generally refers to buying and selling over the Internet…. E-business has a wider meaning, encompassing e-commerce but generally using the Internet and the technology behind it to connect business processes over the Internet.”45 Some relevant activities include the following: providing service,promoting brand awareness,extending market reach,distributing information,delivering distance learning,managing business partners, andlaunching a web-based business.46
Supply chain management
Published in Andrew Greasley, Absolute Essentials of Operations Management, 2019
The form of an organization’s relationship within its supply chain is increasingly being affected by developments in e-business systems. E-business involves electronically mediated information exchanges, both within an organization and between organizations. The implications of e-business developments are that it becomes easier to outsource more and more supply chain activities to third parties and that the boundaries between and within organizations become blurred. This development is known as virtualization, and companies that follow this route are known as virtual organizations. The objective is that the absence of any rigid boundary or hierarchy within the organization should lead to a more responsive and flexible company with greater market orientation.
Summary
Published in Anna Brzozowska, Dagmara Bubel, Larysa Nekrasenko, Organisation Management in the Digital Economy, 2022
Anna Brzozowska, Dagmara Bubel, Larysa Nekrasenko
The use of Internet to run economic activity is becoming increasingly popular. E-business can complement a traditional organisation or be a venture launched online from the very start. The following models of e-business should be listed:transferred models – where the Internet is used for facilitating business processes and improving access to markets and customers (e.g. on-line stores),innovative models – where the Internet determines the existence of the business (e.g. Internet search engines),new forms of cooperation, competition and specialisation.Cloud computing is another example of using modern informatics technologies and the main trend in the development of informatics innovations. All services based on virtual servers provide for decreasing the costs of investments in hardware IT solutions. Cloud-based services allow businesses, especially small ones, to use the latest technological solutions without the needs to invest large sums in purchases of software and infrastructure. This solution contributes to reducing general operating costs (expenditures on hardware and software and payroll costs) and enhancing flexibility, and thus represents an optimal support for their development. At present, effective market operations require own website as an important marketing tool. Websites are increasingly often used for presenting price lists, product or service catalogues as well as publishing information on job vacancies (with the option to upload job applications).
Using cloud computing integrated architecture to improve delivery committed rate in smart manufacturing
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2021
Ting Xia, Wei Zhang, W.S. Chiu, Changqiang Jing
E-business is the use of Internet technologies to transform the way business processes are performed. In other words, it is the ability to perform business transactions involving the exchanged of goods and services between two or more trading partners. Its most visible form is online purchasing, inventory management, product development, knowledge management (Alter 2002). The trend of e-business shows that cloud computing transactions increased from $80 billion U.S. dollars in 2007 to $883 billion U.S. dollars in 2016. How to adopt the e-Business strategy has become the most important action that an enterprise should take care. Only companies that can manage e-business will survive in the worldwide competition (Beynon-Davies 2011; Papazoglou 2001; Grün et al. 2011; Smart 2013; Weill and Vitale 2001).
A study of the adoption behaviour of an Electronic Health Information Exchange System for a Green economy
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2021
Prasanta Pattanaik, Urmii Himanshu, Bharat Bhushan, Munish Thakur, Ashis K. Pani
The proposed model and findings of this study can be helpful in providing further insight into the application of Aadhar card-based medical records. Moreover, the results of this article raise several possible research directions for future studies. First, in this work, researchers did not use privacy as a legal term but rather conceptualised it as a belief (Altman 1977, #); (Westin 1967, #). Future studies can extend this work by including other areas of research such as the legal aspects of information privacy and the effects of national regulations on privacy concerns. Second, this study used a sample of individuals from only a few geographical locations of India. People from different states of India have different values, laws and culture which could lead to differences in their risk perception and the consequences. This research needs to be diversified to cover responses from multiple states to provide a deeper understanding of privacy and security concerns related to EHIEs. Third, the sample size should be increased to have a better perception of citizens towards the adoption of EHIE. Fourth, this study focuses on the intentions towards the use and adoption as the main outcome. It can be of interest for future research to longitudinally study the actual behaviour of people on the implementation of EHIE. Finally, this paperless approach will lead to a dynamic e-business of medicine supply. E-business can create dynamic supply chains (with changing participants), which challenges the thoughts on long term supply chain partnerships (Vorst et al. 2002, #). Further studies can extend the scope to cover these aspects.
The impact of servitization and digitization on productivity and profitability of the firm: a systematic approach
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2021
Alexander A. Kharlamov, Glenn Parry
As a result of digitization, a body of academic literature examining e-Business models has developed (Zott, Amit, and Massa 2011; Teece 2010). Timmers (1998) defines 10 types of e-Business models used by European commercial firms. Van Der Vorst et al. (2002) examine e-Business models in the food industry and conclude that e-Business models improve the efficiency of established supply chains and create new dynamic networks. Morris, Schindehutte, and Allen (2005) state that there is a lack of insight with regard to the conditions and context that make a particular business model appropriate, which is hindering the progression of business model knowledge. Based on this, the following two hypotheses were developed: