Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as a significant social phenomenon for the distribution of information goods and may become an important alternative to traditional client-server network architectures for knowledge sharing within enterprises. This paper reviews and synthesizes the...

Der vorliegende Artikel leistet einen Beitrag zur Dokumentation und zum Verständnis der Begriffe des Geschäftsmodells und des internetbasierten Geschäftsmodells. Zunächst werden verschiedene Geschäftsmodellbegriffe analysiert und die in ihnen enthaltenen Schwerpunkte herausgelöst. Diese...

Purpose – Component‐based software development is a potential reuse paradigm for the future. While the required technologies for a component‐style system development are widely available (e.g. Sun's Enterprise Java Beans), the breakthrough of the component paradigm in business application...

Purpose – This article proposes examining how small to medium‐sized organisations (SMEs) are responding to the challenge of harnessing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and internet technologies to enhance performance and improve competitiveness and aims to identify the barriers preventing...