Electronic Commerce: A Resource-Based View

Management needs to know the benefits that electronic commerce can provide and the resources needed to make its e-commerce applications successful. A resource-based view can help it do so. Human resources, business resources, and information technology resources will serve as independent variables in this study of the application of the resource-based view to e-commerce. Firm performance will serve as dependent variable. Support for the view can help managers make decisions about the resources needed in their organizations for the successful application of e-commerce

TAM and the World Wide Web

The purpose of this research-in-progress is to test the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with the World Wide Web as the users\u27 application. The investigation will validate, extend, or refute TAM. It will thus help identify guidelines for developing and using Web site

Zhuang: E-Business Create Value for Firms DOES ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CREATE VALUE FOR FIRMS? AN ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION PERSPECTIVE

This study applies organizational innovation theory to one specific type of innovation—electronic business. It describes e-business innovation along seven dimensions: organizational focus, radicalness, centrality, adaptability, uncertainty, pervasiveness, and communicability. E-business is identified as both an administrative and technical innovation that is flexible, has median centrality, high levels of radicalness, uncertainty, pervasiveness, and communicability. The study also links innovative use of e-business to firm performance. By analyzing data from InformationWeek and the Compustat database, the study shows significant differences between the performance of e-business innovative firms versus the performance averages for their respective industries. The identification of ebusiness innovation attributes and the linkage between innovation and performance assists researchers in building ebusiness theories. The study also provides managers a basis for choosing the appropriate level of involvement in ebusiness

THE QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND CONTENT ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE WEBSITES IN CHINA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

This study evaluates 74 Chinese corporate websites by examining their contents and functions to understand the business objectives. It found that business objectives of these websites mainly focused on publicity, and very little on online sales. Firms in banking and construction industries develop the highest quality websites, while firms in public services and retailing are the laggards. Chinese websites are ease to use with consistent information. The article also compared the findings in China in this study with those in the United States, Australia, and Singapore in similar studies. It found that industry characteristics were similar among nations while more complicated website functions were more popular among the firms of developed countries. The findings will contribute to the research of e-business by confirming the existence of innovators and laggards of Web technology adoption in model given in E. M. Roger, Diffusion of Innovations (The Free Press, New York, 1962), and help managers understand current status of Chinese websites.Website assessment, e-business in China, corporate websites