Management and business issues for B2B eCommerce implementation
Chan, Caroline and Swatman, Paula M. C. 2002, Management and business issues for B2B eCommerce implementation, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35’02), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, [Big Island, Hawaii].
Title
Management and business issues for B2B eCommerce implementation
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-35’02)
Editor(s)
Sprague, Ralph H., Jr.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Place of publication
[Big Island, Hawaii]
Summary
Until recently little research had been undertaken into the process of eCommerce implementation, especially in relation to the implementation of business-to-business (B2B) relationships. Given the complexity of this process we have, in this paper, endeavoured to contribute to what we perceive as a gap in the body of theory surrounding the implementation process in the extant business-to-business literature. We describe the findings of a series of multiple case studies comprising ten major Australian eCommerce initiators. In addition to confirming our earlier finding of the importance of nontechnical factors for the success of the implementation process we also present, through our case studies, the various management and business issues associated with the success or otherwise of B2B eCommerce implementation.