The interest of both researchers and practitioners around the use of Internet‐based tools to support business processes has been quite high in the last few years. However, despite the initial enthusiastic expectations, it is still not completely clear whether these expectations have been...

Purpose – Seeks to review the results of a paper originally published in 2003 and to evaluate what can be considered still valid and what needs to be revisited. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a general review and observations about the earlier work. Findings – The focus of...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between interorganizational information system (IOIS) adoption in supplier coordination and operations performance improvements. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on the association between dyadic and...

Purpose – In 2003 the authors investigated the level of adoption of e‐business by manufacturing firms in Europe. Four company strategies were identified based on different extents of adoption of internet‐based tools for interaction with customers and/or suppliers. The purpose of this paper...

In 2003 we investigated the level of adoption of e-business by manufacturing firms in Europe, identifying four strategies and analyzing them in terms of contingent factors and supply chain integration mechanisms. In this paper we replicate those analyses using the new release of the...