Developments and Development Directions of Electronic Trade Platforms in US and European Agri-Food Markets: Impact on Sector Organization

Electronic trade platforms support trading transactions between enterprises. They have entered the business landscape including the agri-food sector only a few years ago. However, there already have been dramatic changes in the agri-food sectorÂ’s platform infrastructures. This paper analyzes developments in electronic trade platform infrastructures in the agri-food sector of the US and Europe between 2000 and 2002 and identifies development strategies of successful platforms. Of 85 platforms in existence in the year 2000, only 25 remained active in 2002. But there are still market entries of new platforms and existing platforms form various types of partnerships. The analysis could identify a range of strategic development lines of successful platforms. Initiating cooperation with other platforms on the use of specific features and the development and use of standards, gaining support by major market participants, the improvement of trading functionalities and the expansion of value-added services are the primary lines of development and evolvement of platforms. Platform evolvement tendencies and the present occurrence of the trade platform infrastructure allow for projecting the emergence of an agri-food sector with embedded, interconnected e-commerce infrastructure or mega-hub leading towards a more networked agri-food industry.Electronic commerce, Electronic trade platforms, Agri-food markets, Agribusiness, Marketing,

Graduate Catalog, 2005-2006

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Graduate Catalog, 2004-2005

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Alter ego, state of the art on user profiling: an overview of the most relevant organisational and behavioural aspects regarding User Profiling.

This report gives an overview of the most relevant organisational and\ud behavioural aspects regarding user profiling. It discusses not only the\ud most important aims of user profiling from both an organisation’s as\ud well as a user’s perspective, it will also discuss organisational motives\ud and barriers for user profiling and the most important conditions for\ud the success of user profiling. Finally recommendations are made and\ud suggestions for further research are given

Electronic Business Models: Five Cases from Five Industries

The term business model has been used loosely several times for describing a company’s strategies, revenue model, processes and overall business logic both by researchers and practitioners. Several authors have defined a business model concept and described the constructs of a business model. Still, only a few studies, if any, concentrate on the evaluation of business models. Hence, this paper attempts to shed more light on this issue by evaluating five electronic business models from five different industries including travelling, media, logistics, telecommunication, and manufacturing. Within electronic business model evaluation, we have emphasised the evolution and maturity of success in terms of critical success factors (CSF) and customer need factors (CNF). Results deriving from the five case studies indicate that traditional business fundamentals, such as running business at profit, abilities of personnel and long customer relationships, are essential in order to gain success in electronic business models. Furthermore, we noticed that success factors, CSFs and CNFs, are different depending of the maturity phase of an electronic business model. Finally, we argue that B2B and B2C businesses have, in fact, very similar kind of features in e-business