Electronic business plays a central role in the economy, facilitating the exchange of information, goods, services, and payments. It propels productivity and competitiveness and is accessible to all enterprises, and as such, represents an opportunity also for SME competitiveness. E-Business Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for SMEs: Driving Competitiveness discusses the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and solutions related to electronic business adoption, with a special focus on SMEs. Addressing technological, organizational, and legal perspectives in a very comprehensive way, this text aims to disseminate current developments, case studies, new integrated approaches, and practical solutions and applications for SMEs.
Author(s): Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha
Series: Premier Reference Source
Edition: 1
Publisher: IGI Global
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 490
Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 7
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgment......Page 28
Designing Digital Marketplaces for Competitive Advantage......Page 30
E-Commerce Systemsfor Software Agents: Challenges and Opportunities......Page 49
Enhancing the Preparedness of SMEs for E-Business Opportunities by Collaborative Networks......Page 59
E-Learning for SMEs: Challenges, Potential and Impact......Page 75
21st Century Learning Opportunities for SME Success: Maximizing Technology Tools and Lifelong Learning for Innovation and Impact......Page 94
Open Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges for SMEs......Page 116
Organizational Readiness/Preparedness......Page 130
Digital Marketplaces as a Viable Model for SME Networking......Page 147
What is New with Organization of E-Business: Organizational Viewpoint of the Relationships in E-Business......Page 160
Knowledge Supply for SME Networks: Application Cases and Selected Technical Approaches......Page 178
SME as a Service......Page 202
Reflecting on New Businesses Models for SMEs through Technological Application: Cases of E-Business in Brazil......Page 223
E-Health Business Models Prototyping by Incremental Design......Page 242
Specifications for a Website Audit Tool for Small Businesses......Page 258
An Approach to Efficient Waste Management for SMEs via RBVOs......Page 275
Retail 2.0:The Coming Up of a New Era for Retail Business in the 21st Century......Page 297
A Unified View of Enablers, Barriers, and Readiness of Small to Medium Enterprises for E-Business Adoption......Page 320
Issues Influencing Electronic Commerce Activities of SMEs: A Study of the Turkish Automotive Supplier Industry......Page 342
Constrains Associated to E-Business Evolution......Page 364
An Integrative Framework on the Psychological Variables Explaining the Consumers’ Use of E-Commerce-Based Recommendation Systems......Page 379
Fairness in Virtual Teams: A Construct of E-Organizational Justice......Page 394
Open Innovation in SMEs: From Closed Peripheries to Networked Paradigm......Page 407
Compilation of References......Page 423
About the Contributors......Page 474
Index......Page 485
