Research opportunities in electronic commerce

The Web technology will move the whole economy to be information-based because of the greater efficiency it can help achieve. The rate of technology change is so rapid that emerging electronic commerce is already making fundamental changes in the economic landscape, affecting every aspect of how bus...

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Published inDecision Support Systems Vol. 21; no. 3; pp. 149 - 156
Main Authors Shaw, Michael J., Gardner, David M., Thomas, Howard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.11.1997
Elsevier Science
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects
Applied sciences
Decision support systems
Electronic commerce
Electronics
Exact sciences and technology
Firm modelling
General (including economical and industrial fields)
Internet
Miscellaneous
Networks and services in france and abroad
Operational research and scientific management
Operational research. Management science
Studies
Telecommunications
Telecommunications and information theory
Teleprocessing networks. Isdn
Web strategy
World Wide Web
Decision support systems
Internet
Web strategy
Electronic commerce
Decision support system
Behavioral analysis
World wide web
Electronic trade
Management
Firm
Firm strategy
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Summary:The Web technology will move the whole economy to be information-based because of the greater efficiency it can help achieve. The rate of technology change is so rapid that emerging electronic commerce is already making fundamental changes in the economic landscape, affecting every aspect of how business is and will be conducted. The Web has made the need for decision support ever more ubiquitous because of the vast amount of business information made available by the global Web, which helps bring together the information passed between businesses, between a business and its customers, and among different departments of a business. We, who are entering a new era of enterprise computing and research in the decision support systems field, must consider this ubiquitous network business model. This paper lays out the dimensions of electronic commerce and develops a framework for identifying the important research issues associated with electronic commerce. The emphasis is on taking an interdisciplinary view that integrates technology and business modeling.
ISSN:0167-9236
1873-5797
DOI:10.1016/S0167-9236(97)00025-0