Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 9 Issue 2

Best practice in SME adoption of e‐commerce

Judith Jeffcoate, Caroline Chappell, Sylvie Feindt

Describes how small businesses involved in e‐commerce may benchmark their performance against a number of critical success factors (CSFs). The proposed approach is based on a…

The extended supply chain: A statistical study

Kevin McCormack, Katie Kasper

The realities of today’s digital economy are requiring and enabling dramatically improved levels of supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. The business‐to‐business (B2B) or…

The emergence of e‐commerce in a developing nation: Case of Egypt

Sherif Kamel, Maha Hussein

The information and communication technology evolution is affecting many nations around the world and forcing changes to business and socio‐economic development plans, and…

Novel taxonomy for application integration

Marinos Themifstocleous, Zahir Irani

One of the main motivations associated with the adoption of electronic commerce (e‐commerce) is the integration and automation of business processes. Yet, for many years the…

An integrated approach for securing electronic transactions over the Web

N. Kolokotronis, C. Margaritis, P. Papadopoulou, P. Kanellis, D. Martakos

The decentralised nature of Web‐based information systems demands a careful evaluation of the pantheon of security issues in order to avoid the potential occurrence of business…

Electronic commerce: A comparative study of organizational experiences

Majed Al‐Mashari

The significant growth of electronic commerce (EC) application is notable. More and more organizations are switching to online business to achieve better positions in the…

Implementation and usage of electronic commerce in managing the supply chain: A comparative study of ten Australian companies

Damien J. Power, Amrik S. Sohal

Changing competitive environments and technological innovation have been increasingly driving organizations to look to deriving competitive advantage through the management of…

Electronic commerce: a best practice perspective

Majed A. Al-Mashari