The business environment is at present moving through a dynamic and turbulent phase driven by technological change, globalisation, and increasingly competitive markets. This paper sets out to review the impact of the Internet on the business processes that support marketing, sales and the supply...

Much business process innovation is being driven through development of e-commerce applications. But e-business requires considerable financial investment, the justification and evaluation of which requires some kind of performance measurement system. This paper reports research into the...

The application and performance of Internet Commerce (IC) strategy has become a critical success factor in an industry characterised by volatile change and transformational upheaval. This article presents research examining how IC has been applied in Australian electricity utilities from a...

This paper shows the early results of new research on how Digital Ecosystems can promote new modes of sustainable e-business practices, for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), using an open architecture for content sharing and Business-to-Business (B2B) interactions in the knowledge...

This paper shows the early results of new research on how Digital Ecosystems can promote new modes of sustainable e-business practices, for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), using an open architecture for content sharing and Business-to-Business (B2B) interactions in the knowledge...

One specific form of industry transformation process is the so-called e-transformation, which focuses on the impacts of digitalisation and interconnectedness. Over the course of an industry sector's e-transformation, four characteristic stages of development can be identified to show particular...

SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial automation and modularity. It builds upon the situated courteous logic programs knowledge representation in RuleML, the...

One specific form of industry transformation process is the so-called e-transformation, which focuses on the impacts of digitalisation and interconnectedness. Over the course of an industry sector's e-transformation, four characteristic stages of development can be identified to show particular...