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Bellenbaum, Ilka. "Einsatzmöglichkeiten von E-Business-Komponenten im Business-to-Business-Bereich." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675717.
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Ilayperuma, Tharaka. "Improving E-Business Design through Business Model Analysis." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43754.
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To a rapidly increasing degree, traditional organizational structures evolve in large parts of the world towards online business using modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities. For efficient applications of inter-organizational information systems, the alignment between business and ICT is a key factor. In this context, business analysis using business modelling can be regarded as a first step in designing economically sustainable e-business solutions. This thesis examines how business modeling can be used to improve e-business design. We examine how business stakeholder intentions and different objectives of business collaborations can be used to obtain an explorative business model that can be used as a basis for designing e-business solutions. The thesis proposes a set of artifacts for business modeling and e-service design. In regard to business modeling, we propose methods that consider internal aspects such as strategic intentions of actors and external aspects such as business collaborations among them. Considering stakeholder intentions, we introduce a method to design business models based on goal models. A set of templates for designing goal models and a set of transformation rules to obtain business models based on goal models are proposed. To further improve business models considering business collaborations, we suggest a classification of business transactions that considers underlying business objectives of business collaborations. Utilizing the suggested business transactions, we then propose a method to improve business modeling. Finally, we propose a method for designing e-services using business models. The methods suggested support business modelers as well as process and services designers in executing their tasks effectively. The methods have been assessed through applications in two cases.
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Gomes, Tiago Filipe Gonçalves. "Web 3.0 e o e-business." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/17782.
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Mestrado em Gestão de Sistemas de InformaçãoNuma altura em que as tecnologias web estão cada vez mais presentes nas nossas vidas, a forma como lidamos com elas evolui. O E-business tem-se desenvolvido permitindo que determinados produtos e serviços cheguem a um maior número de pessoas num maior espaço geográfico com um custo mais reduzido. As empresas adaptam-se a esta nova realidade e dispõem de novas, interativas e mais versáteis opções de compra. A presente dissertação tem como principal objetivo estudar o E-business e a ajudar a desmistificar alguns conceitos da Web 3.0, as vantagens e desvantagens encontradas no comércio eletrónico e o efeito nos consumidores. Para a concretização deste estudo foi efetuada uma abordagem quantitativa com base na análise de um inquérito, realizado através de software SPSS, procedendo-se à análise dos resultados obtidos nos questionários. Com este estudo pode afirmar-se que foram atingidos os objetivos propostos, foi explorada a perceção que o utilizador tem do comércio eletrónico e observou-se que o consumidor gosta de fazer uma pré-análise quando pretende adquirir online, comparando preços e optando pelo mais preço mais favorável e que lhe trará mais benefício, para além disso trata-se de uma alternativa mais cómoda.
As web technologies are increasingly present in our lives, the way we deal with them evolves. E-business has developed in a way that products and services reach more people in a larger geographic space at the lowest cost. Companies adapt to new reality by being more interactive and have more versatile buying options. The main objective of this dissertation is to study e-business and to help demystify some concepts of Web 3.0, as advantages and disadvantages found in electronic retail and the effect that has on consumers. To achieve the objective of this study we made a quantitative methodology based on the data analysis, through SPSS software, then proceeded to the analysis of the results obtained in the questionnaires. We can say that we have achieved the proposed objectives, we have explored the perception that the user have on electronic retail and we observed that the consumer likes to make some pre-order analyse by comparing the price and by choosing the less expensive and more profit product, becoming a more convenient alternative.
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Galla, Michael, and Michael Wagner. "Partnersuche im E-Business." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-210303.
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"Internet-basierte Organisationsformen, wie Netzwerke und virtuelle Unternehmen vereinen Flexibilität und Wachstumsmöglichkeiten mit geringen Kosten. Im Trend liegen projektbezogene Zusammenschlüsse verschiedener unternehmerischer Einheiten mit dem Ziel, Marktchancen zu realisieren, die ein Partner alleine nicht wahrnehmen kann. In diesen „Unternehmen auf Zeit“ teilen sich die Partner Chancen, Risiken und Kosten."
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Galla, Michael, and Michael Wagner. "Partnersuche im E-Business." Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, 2001. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A29819.
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Aus der Einleitung:
"Internet-basierte Organisationsformen, wie Netzwerke und virtuelle Unternehmen vereinen Flexibilität und Wachstumsmöglichkeiten mit geringen Kosten. Im Trend liegen projektbezogene Zusammenschlüsse verschiedener unternehmerischer Einheiten mit dem Ziel, Marktchancen zu realisieren, die ein Partner alleine nicht wahrnehmen kann. In diesen „Unternehmen auf Zeit“ teilen sich die Partner Chancen, Risiken und Kosten."
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Engström, Anne Salehi-Sangari Esmail. "Assessment of business-to-business (B2B) e-marketplaces' performance /." Luleå : Industrial marketing & e-commerce research group, Luleå University of Technology, 2007. http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1544/2007/22/.
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Redelinguys, Elizna. "A framework to manage the re-organisation necessary in becoming an e-business : business-to-business e-commerce." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11358.
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Bibliography: leaves 187-202.This thesis focuses on the development of a management framework that allows organisations to gradually evolve into a full-fletched B2B e-business. Every manager considering the implementation of a B2B e-business system as part of his business plan, need a rigorous approach for the successful implementation thereof. The successful planning and managing of e-business investments are of the utmost importance to sustain and create more shareholder value for the future. The main hypothesis stated by the author is that a framework is required to guide managers with the re-organisation necessary throughout the life cycle (including planning, implementation and sustaining) of a B2B e-business model. The author believes that this framework will contribute to organisations enhancing competitive position and thus, unlocking more shareholder value.
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Ohlsson, Jesper. "Enforcing Business Rules in E-Business Systems : A Survey of Business Rule Engines." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-22.
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E-business provides important opportunities of trade for businesses, and the supporting business system must handle this environment efficiently. One current trend in business systems is to move business logic, such as business processes and business rules, out from the application logic and into separate support systems. The reason to make this separation is to increase the agility of the business, to make the system able to change more rapidly when the business situation changes.
This report focus on business rules enforced in business rule engines. Specific interest is on how such rule engines meet the requirements of the e-business domain. The report presents an overview of business rule engines. Five general categories of characteristics are proposed. The proposed characteristics are then used in a comparison of three business rule engines.
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Esmaeily, Kaveh. "The formation of E-business : - A study simulitating approaches when forming an e-business." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-416.
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This bachelor thesis sets its goals in explaining the e-business idea formation. This paper inflicts different aspects of a e-business formation with the purpose of explaining the importance of analysis and reasoning, simulation and execution and careful approaches toward the goal. This thesis explores some of the principal issues surrounding the formation of an e-business. The main objective is to research small and middle sized enterprises preparations in the are mentioned above for success factors, renewing. This paper suggests to businesses that have the goal of entering the market to evaluate their different options when forming their strategies, as I see it the e-business should be the means to an end and not the end it self.
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Hjelm, Annelie, Monika Herczeg, and Laleh Saeidi. "E-business inom fastighetsbranschen : En undersökning av fastighetsbyrån Fantastic Franks differentiering genom E-business." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-27470.
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Utifrån Canvas analysmodell, hur ser Fantastic Franks E-business ut? Hur är synen på E-business hos en liten nischad fastighetsbyrå? Syftet med denna studie är att analysera Fantastic Franks E-business genom Canvas analysmodell och analysera hur differentiering genom E-business påverkar företagets framgång. Genom intervju med ledningsgruppsrepresentant från Fantastic Frank samt med fastighetsmäklare på Fantastic Frank applicerades företagets affärsmodell på modellen Källor till värdeskapande i E-business företag. Denna metod användes för att undersökningens syfte att se hur Fantastic Frank differentierar sig genom E-business skulle kunna undersökas. Nyckelresurser, nyckelpartnerskap och nyckelaktiviteter är de viktigaste blocken inom Canvas analysmodell för Fantastic Frank, för att de ska kunna erbjuda en värdeproposition och differentiera sig. Andra fastighetsbyråer börjar erbjuda liknande tjänster med bostadsstyling och Fantastic Frank bör vidareutveckla sin tjänst. För att skapa värde bör Fantastic Frank utveckla relationer med kunder som köpt eller sålt bostad genom gemensamma intressen inom inredning/design. Fantastic Frank ser möjligheter att använda sig utav E-business för att etablera sig i storstäder runt om i världen. Om de lyckas, kommer antagligen deras nuvarande partners att se möjligheter att växa med Fantastic Frank. Företaget differentierar sig genom att inte använda sig av tidningsannonser eller andra störningsmoment på sin hemsida utan skapar hellre inspiration. Genom att arbeta med målgruppsanpassad bostadsstyling ser ingen bostad ut som den andra vilket leder till att målgruppen återkommer för att söka efter bostad eller inspireras av bostäder. Fantastic Frank har spridit sina risker eftersom de satsar på flera olika medier.How does the E-business of Fantastic Frank look like according to Business Model Canvas? How does a small and niched real estate agency perceive E-business? The purpose with this study is to analyse the E-business of Fantastic Frank real estate agency by applying it to the Business Canvas framework and analyse how differentiation through E-business affects the success of the company. By conducting an interview with representative from Fantastic Frank management as well as founder of Fantastic Frank real estate agency, and furthermore conducting an interview with one of the real estate brokers at Fantastic Frank, the business model of the company could be applied to the Value creation model by Amit and Zott (2001). The Value creation model was used in order to analyse how Fantastic Frank differentiates by their E-business. Key resources, key partnership and key activities are the most important parts within Business Model Canvas for Fantastic Frank, for the company to be able offer its value proposition and differentiate itself. Other real estate agencies have started to offer similar kinds of home styling services, and Fantastic Frank should have to consider how to further develop its service. To create value Fantastic Frank should develop relationships with customers who have used the company’s services by relating to common interests in interior/design. Fantastic Frank sees opportunities to make use of E-business to establish itself in major cities around the world. Their present partners will most likely appreciate the possibility to expand with Fantastic Frank. The company differentiates itself by not using ads and other kinds of disturbing elements on its homepage, and would rather be inspirational. With their target audience in mind during the styling session home stylings differ from each other with the result that people return to search for new homes or to get inspiration. Fantastic Frank also spreads its risks since the company can be found on many kinds of social media.
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Mandala, Vinay Kumar. "e-Business Model Component Interconnections." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Humanities and Informatics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-982.
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The accelerating growth of e-business and technologies has raised the interest in transforming traditional business models or developing new ones. Most of the e-business model research has been devoted to giving taxonomies of e-business models. Though defining e-business model and decomposing it into atomic elements traditionally has been a task for researchers, the concepts surrounding them have been subject to debate lately. While there is an extensive research conducted towards identifying and analyzing key components in e-business models, limited research has been noted in identifying component values or factors and the interconnections between components. In this thesis we review the e-business models literature using literature study in order to give an overview of e-business model definitions, identify the component values and interconnections between components and finally a framework provided that shows all these components, values and interconnections.
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Clavería, Machuca Alan André. "E-Business en la Educación." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2009. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/103481.
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No autorizada por el autor para ser publicada a texto completoEl presente trabajo de título tiene como objetivo diseñar un negocio fundado en la web que permita compartir materiales educacionales, percibiendo ingresos a través de avisos publicitarios. Este tema de memoria no enfrenta un problema en sí, lo que busca es una oportunidad de negocios; sin embargo esta oportunidad de negocios tiene algunas restricciones impuestas por el autor, la principal de ellas es que sea un sistema gratuito y abierto a todo el mundo, dentro de este modelo de negocios es donde entra la publicidad. De esta forma las empresas pueden llegar al público estudiantil mientras éste realiza una tarea cotidiana como lo es el estudiar o recopilar información educacional. Para llevar a cabo este objetivo es necesario definir una estrategia empresarial y de entrada, al igual que definir cuáles serán los procesos de negocios claves para llevar a cabo el servicio de buena forma. Una de las características más importantes que presenta este sistema es que está preparado para funcionar sobre otras redes sociales y servicios webs (Facebook y Blog), de esta forma se intentará aprovechar al máximo las potencialidades de otros servicios web. Las nuevas corrientes de la web han llevado a grandes empresas a crear novedosos productos para emprendimientos tecnológicos, gracias a estos productos es que el servicio ofrecido por el memorista puede permitirse una gran escalabilidad a un precio relacionado con su crecimiento, Una de las claves de la arquitectura tecnológica es externalizar los servicios de almacenamiento y procesamiento de datos. Una de las conclusiones más importantes que se pueden extraer del trabajo realizado es que el principal foco no es la gestión documental o el almacenamiento de archivos, ya que hoy en día existen muchas de estas herramientas gratuitas en la web, la clave son las conversaciones que se den en torno a los documentos y el contexto en que sean tratados.
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Convertino, Stefano. "Business chat: sviluppo e implementazione." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8259/.
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In questa tesi si vuole parlare dello sviluppo e dell'implementazione di un'applicazione per smartphone.
L'applicazione in questione si chiama BusinessChat, è stata sviluppata per Android e utilizza sia lato server, sia lato Client.
BusinessChat è un applicazione che mette in contatto consumatori e gestori di attività.
Lo scopo dell'app è quindi quello di permettere al consumatore, di comunicare con il business in maniera più immediata, semplice e diretta.
Per quanto riguarda il business può utilizzare quest'app sia per fornire un servizio al proprio cliente che per utilizzarla per pubblicizzare la propria attività, ad esempio con messaggi in broadcast a tutti i propri contatti (questa funzione non è ancora presente nella nostra applicazione, ma verrà aggiunta in un breve futuro).
L'utente può ricercare, attraverso l'uso di una mappa, una particolare attività, ed eventualmente mettersi in contatto con lei, ad esempio, se ciò che cerchiamo è un ristorante, potremmo voler sapere se questa sera sono ancora disponibili dei posti liberi nel proprio locale, oppure se ad esempio volessimo ordinare delle pizze da asporto dalla nostra pizzeria di fiducia o sapere se sono attrezzati per gestire clienti allergici al glutine, o più semplicemente per conoscere l'orario di chiusura, tutto questo sarebbe possibile farlo attraverso pochissimi passi grazie a BusinessChat.
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Čermák, Milan. "Znalosti marketingu pro e-business." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223108.
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The focus of master’s thesis is to examine current possibilities of electronic marketing and means of their utilisation. The thesis analyses various methods of internet marketing and process of planning e-marketing strategy, including the possibilities of measuring its success.
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Akalin, Kazim. "Business-to-business e-markets in textile industry: An empirical perspective." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2619.
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Wu, Wei-Wen. "Business-to-business E-markets in textile industry: An empirical perspective." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2765.
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This research investigates the attitudes and perceptions of the E-Markets as members of their value chain in the textile industry. The study began by formulating a basic understanding of the nature of buyer-to-buyer (B2B)s well as electronic marketplaces. Fundamentally, E-markets change the relationship dynamics between buyers and sellers from "one-to-one" to "many-to-many."
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Schlenk, Sonya. "E-Learning als Bestandteil einer E-Business-Strategie." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675849.
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Solmi, Gian Luca. "E-business: Management e strategia nell'era di internet." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2013. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/6192/.
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Le tecnologie sviluppatesi a cavallo del nuovo millennio hanno dato e stanno dando un grande impulso all'evoluzione dei processi che riguardano qualsiasi campo della vita di oggigiorno: tutto ciò riguarda ovviamente anche le aziende, che si adoperano nel trovare nuove soluzioni che possano garantire profitti maggiori abbinati a costi di gestione minori.
Risulta quindi interessante approcciarsi allo studio dei processi decisionali ed organizzativi che interessano un'azienda e come i suddetti vengano influenzati dall'uso delle tecnologie. In particolare, l'adattamento delle strategie e dei modelli di business alle tecnologie odierne è una sfida interessante e ripetuta nel tempo, in quanto le tecnologie si sviluppano e si evolvono in tempi sempre più brevi, con tutti i vantaggi ed i rischi del caso.
Questa tesi si pone l'obiettivo di analizzare i temi inerenti all'E-Business, ovvero l'applicazione delle Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in supporto alle attività di business di un'azienda.
Verrano esaminati in che modo un'impresa deve approcciarsi per sviluppare ed implementare una strategia e-business, quali sono i fattori che influenzano una strategia, quali sono i vantaggi e gli svantaggi dell'adozione di tale strategia.
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Thornton, Gregory Mont 1970. "Web site design, e-collaboration and e-business for a low-volume and high-mix business." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84522.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 84).
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Cavicchini, Andrea. "Cloud Computing e Modelli di Business." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/2410/.
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Bach, Monica, and Österlund Teresa Yurag. "E-business : A Sharing Information System." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Handels- och IT-högskolan, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17169.
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Today many companies show a highly interest in adopting the e-business. However,companies need different information system strategy in the adoption of e-business in order tosupport information sharing. Information system strategy is concerned with aligning ofinformation system with business needs. Beside this, companies need to search after strategicadvantage from information technology, since information system strategy explains what todo with IT. The earlier experiences point to the fact that companies failed to develop theirbusinesses through Internet mainly because they did not developed an appropriate strategy.This study investigates how to implement information system strategy to support informationsharing in the context of e-business. Thus, the purpose of this study is to highlight differentperspectives in adaptation of information system strategy within e-business companies. Theempirical study is based on a qualitative method of data collection by using three interrelatedcase studies. The study conducted a number of interviews with three e-business companiesnamed Hööks, NetOnNet and Kwintet.The theoretical framework provided knowledge about e-business, information sharing, andinformation system strategies. The findings - by means of interview questions - were analyzedby theoretical ideas. The authors came to a number of conclusions:1. Perspectives in information system strategy are divided into different parts consist ofERP system, supporting system, and manual approach, depending on how the ebusinesscompanies uses the information system strategies.2. Information system strategies are embedded with ERP system and are interconnectivelyused companies that use the e-business as their core business system.3. The e-business provides information workflow to support information sharing.4. The final conclusion is that there are remaining perspectives, which are not connectedto ERP system, but they are vital for the implementation of information systemstrategies for information sharing.Program: Masterutbildning i Informatik
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Bhutkar, Arjun Vijay 1967. "Architecture for multi-enterprise E-business." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88324.
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Kroukamp, TC. "An approach to e-business ethics." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1776.
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Del, Verme Giorgia. "Business Chat: analisi e Mock-up." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/8216/.
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Il documento presenta le analisi svolte per la creazione delle schermate dell'applicazione Business Chat mostrando tutto il percorso decisionale intrapreso per l'implementazione di ogni funzionalità.
Business Chat è un'applicazione di messaggistica istantanea che permette una comunicazione diretta tra un negozio e i propri clienti.
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De, Seta Fabio <1987>. "ANALISI E BUSINESS PLAN ARISTARCO S.P.A." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4909.
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Boscolo, Bielo Mariachiara <1993>. "Il Business Plan e Report Integrato." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11605.
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Il Business Plan è diventato nel corso degli anni un documento essenziale che, sia aziende nascenti che già presenti nel mercato devono redigere al fine di presentare all’esterno la propria Business idea e il progetto imprenditoriale da un ottica qualitativa e quantitativa. Spesso le aziende si concentrano maggiormente sulla parte finanziaria e si limitano a fornire singoli numeri, ma l’interesse degli investitori si focalizza anche su progetti di sostenibilità e sull’impatto dell’attività aziendale sull’ambiente. Distinguere nettamente i due tipi di performance è però errato poiché i risultati finali numerici sono solo la conseguenza di come viene gestita l’azienda in tutta la sua globalità. Nasce così l’esigenza di un report integrato, che comprenda in un unico documento sia gli indicatori economici sia quelli di processo tra cui quelli di sostenibilità.
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Buonsante, Noemi Ilaria <1994>. "BLOCKCHAIN E LA RIVOLUZIONE DEL BUSINESS." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/17549.
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La tecnologia blockchain si ritiene possa andare a riconfigurare ogni settore industriale e ogni attività umana, in quanto paradigma capace di riorganizzare le infrastrutture economiche e sociali con maggiore efficienza.
Gran parte della letteratura che circonda la blockchain però è ad oggi focalizzata maggiormente sui servizi finanziari, con pochissime discussioni sulle società di servizi non finanziari e su come la tecnologia possa creare valore nelle organizzazioni e come possa influenzare i loro modelli di business.
Lo scopo principale di questa tesi è quindi quello di discutere in che modo questa tecnologia, possa contribuire a modificare ed innovare i modelli di business.
Inizialmente è affrontato il tema dell’innovazione tecnologica, inevitabile dinanzi ad una tecnologia considerata disruptive, oltre che costituire fattore determinante del successo competitivo e necessaria per assicurare uno sviluppo sostenibile globale.
Successivamente viene analizzata la tecnologia, il suo funzionamento e la sua evoluzione, con un focus su aspetti attinenti alle molteplici applicazioni in ambito aziendale e alle principali piattaforme blockchain.
A seguire è trattato il tema riguardante l’influenza che la tecnologia ha sul business model di ogni impresa; più precisamente come l'insieme delle soluzioni organizzative e strategiche, attraverso le quali l'impresa acquisisce vantaggio competitivo, cambiano a seguito dell’introduzione della stessa. Viene esaminata ogni possibile e inevitabile evoluzione del come l’organizzazione crea, distribuisce e raccoglie valore con la nuova tecnologia.
Infine, è affrontato il tema della sostenibilità applicato alla tecnologia per capire se e come la stessa possa contribuire ad uno sviluppo sostenibile, considerando la complessità e molteplicità di aspetti e applicazioni, vantaggi e criticità di questa innovazione.
La bibliografia e la sitografia esaminati si riferiscono ad articoli accademici, riviste specializzate, libri economici e di esperti del settore tecnologico e report redatti da società di consulenza.
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Nurse, Jason R. C. "A business-oriented framework for enhancing web services security for e-business." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34605/.
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Security within the Web services technology field is a complex and very topical issue. When considering using this technology suite to support interacting e-businesses, literature has shown that the challenge of achieving security becomes even more elusive. This is particularly true with regard to attaining a level of security beyond just applying technologies, that is trusted, endorsed and practiced by all parties involved. Attempting to address these problems, this research proposes BOF4WSS, a Business-Oriented Framework for enhancing Web Services Security in e-business. The novelty and importance of BOF4WSS is its emphasis on a tool-supported development methodology, in which collaborating e-businesses could achieve an enhanced and more comprehensive security and trust solution for their services interactions. This investigation began with an in-depth assessment of the literature in Web services, e-business, and their security. The outstanding issues identified paved the way for the creation of BOF4WSS. With appreciation of research limitations and the added value of framework tool-support, emphasis was then shifted to the provision of a novel solution model and tool to aid companies in the use and application of BOF4WSS. This support was targeted at significantly easing the difficulties incurred by businesses in transitioning between two crucial framework phases. To evaluate BOF4WSS and its supporting model and tool, a two-step approach was adopted. First, the solution model and tool were tested for compatibility with existing security approaches which they would need to work with in real-world scenarios. Second, the framework and tool were evaluated using interviews with industry-based security professionals who are experts in this field. The results of both these evaluations indicated a noteworthy degree of evidence to affirm the suitability and strength of the framework, model and tool. Additionally, these results also act to cement this thesis' proposals as innovative and significant contributions to the research field.
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Albores-Barajas, Pavel Alexei. "Understanding the effects of e-business on business processes : a simulation approach." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2007. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21983.
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This thesis defines a new approach to the analysis of the effect of e-business on business processes, utilising simulation as evaluation tool. This research was focused on answering five research questions about the suitability of simulation in this context, the role of static modelling and generic business processes, the identification of patterns for e-business activities and how to operationalise these patterns into components in simulation software, as well as how to use these components. Requirements for modelling of e-business processes were identified and documented. Pilot cases studies proved the potential of simulation for studying e-business processes (Feasibility). Generic e-business activities were derived and classified from the literature and case studies in order to fill gaps identified in existent process models. Re-usable simulation components are proposed as a result of the unique combination of simulation and e-activities in order to make simulation modelling of e-business easier. The components were tested in industrial case studies and quasi-experiments with end users for feasibility, usability and usefulness. Results show that the components' approach is feasible, that having re-usable components promotes a better analysis, (usefulness) and that it is easy to build models using the components (usability). The theoretical novelty of this research resides in bringing together three areas of study: ebusiness, simulation and business processes to analyse e-business implementations. The research contributes to the knowledge of components and re-use theory in simulation by proposing a new approach to component development, operationalisation and analysis of the degree of granularity required for these components. From a practical point of view, this research provides companies with an easier and more complete way of analysing e-business processes, breaking the barrier for the use of simulation, speeding up model building of eprocesses and getting a better understanding of the dynamics of e-processes. Future work in the area will include extending the component approach to supply chains and inter-company transactions.
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Carl, Walter John III. "The (interactional) business of doing business: a rhetorical discursive action analysis of an e-commerce business opportunity." Diss., University of Iowa, 2001. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/190.
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This thesis focused on presentations of an e-commerce business opportunity to people interested in a multilevel marketing business. Participation in a multilevel marketing organization can be described as a legitimate business activity where individuals can earn a living while enjoying the benefits of independence, autonomy, and being part of a business team. A second, equally plausible way to describe the business is as a get-rich-quick or pyramid scheme in which individuals learn techniques of persuasion and how to exploit personal relationships in order to maximize profit. Given these alternative descriptions, the primary research question for this project concerned the identity problems managed by current business owners as they built up the first kind of description of the business while simultaneously undermining the second.
A series of business plan presentations and training sessions of a multilevel marketing organization were audio and video-tape recorded in the United Kingdom and the United States and transcribed. These meetings were analyzed by means of a rhetorical discursive action approach. This perspective is informed by principles of conversation analysis (i.e., how participants accomplish social actions through talk on a turn-by-turn basis), rhetorical concerns (i.e., how versions of the world are built up and undermined in relation to alternative, rival versions), and fact construction (i.e., how descriptions of events are formulated to be true, objective, and disinterested).
The analysis demonstrated that various conversational practices were used to construct the e-commerce business as legitimate and as a vehicle to fulfill the audience members' dreams and goals, while countering the notion that the business involved processes of selling, persuasion, or convincing. Some of the devices used to accomplish this effect included managing informality of the meetings, positioning the audience as intelligent, reflective people who would not fall prey to a sales pitch, and showing how business techniques grew out of a larger ethic of personal relationships and connections.
The study concluded with a discussion of the importance of analyzing actual interaction; training and pedagogical implications; future avenues of study; and ethical, political, and critical implications raised by this thesis.
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Carvalho, Ana Sofia Passos Taborda de. "E-business e a internacionalização : percepção das PME's portuguesas." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/9112.
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Mestrado em MarketingFace às evoluções tecnológicas e ao fenómeno de globalização, a internacionalização das PMEs torna-se num improrrogável estratégico para a sua sobrevivência no ambiente empresarial. As PMEs enfrentam grandes dificuldades no desenvolvimento de estratégias de internacionalização. O e-business oferece às PMEs formas de servir mercados externos, dissimulando assim algumas das barreiras à internacionalização. A presente investigação tem como objetivos identificar as barreiras à internacionalização tradicional das PMEs portuguesas, estudar a sua perceção sobre as vantagens do e-business para a internacionalização e identificar quais os estímulos para a adoção de estratégias de e-business. O estudo tem uma metodologia exploratória quantitativa e foi administrado um inquérito online a 108 PMEs portuguesas sem experiência de internacionalização, selecionadas pela técnica de juízo. Os resultados mostram que a falta de informação e de conhecimento do mercado, o insuficiente capital financeiro, a falta de contactos no estrangeiros e de apoios à exportação são os principais obstáculos à internacionalização. As funcionalidades de e-business vantajosas para a internacionalização identificadas pelas PMEs são: a possibilidade de aceder a informação diversificada e de criar novas oportunidades de negócio, a capacidade de divulgar/promover em diferentes mercados, de comunicar de forma rápida e interativa, de ligar diretamente com o consumidor/cliente final e de vender diretamente. Por fim, as PMEs são mais propensas a adotar estratégias de e-business face às vantagens específicas da empresa, à perceção da gestão, à estratégia de crescimento internacional, à emergência de mercados atrativos e ao aumento e pressões da concorrência.
In the light of technological developments and the globalization phenomenon, the internationalization of SMEs becomes thus an undelayable strategic to their survival in the business environment. SMEs face bigger difficulties in developing internationalization strategies. E-business offers SMEs ways to serve foreign markets, thus overcoming some of the traditional barriers to internationalization. This research aims to identify these barriers in order to study their perception of e-business advantages as an internationalization tool and to identify the incentives for e-business strategies adoption. Quantitative exploratory research was developed and an online survey was administrated to 108 Portuguese SMEs without internationalization experience, selected by judgment technique. The results show that the lack of information and knowledge of the market, insufficient financial capital, lack of contacts in foreign and export support are the main barriers to internationalization. The features of e-business advantageous to the internationalization identified by SMEs are: the possibility to access diverse information and to create new business opportunities, the ability to disseminate and promote in different markets, to communicate quickly and interactively, direct link with the final client/consumer and direct sales. Finally, SMEs are more likely to adopt e-business strategies in line with the specific advantages of the company, management perception, international growth strategy of the, the emergence of attractive markets and the increase and pressures of the competition.
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Nascimento, João Manuel da Silva. ""E-business" e as indústrias de bens de consumo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/1728.
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Mestrado em Gestão da InformaçãoApesar do enorme potencial do negócio electrónico, podemos constatar que, em Portugal, existe uma relativa apatia no desenvolvimento de modelos de negócio em que a Internet apareça como uma aposta estratégica fundamental, quer quando encarada como canal de vendas, quer quando encarada unicamente como um motor da comunicação e da relação com os clientes actuais e potenciais das empresas. Não obstante os exemplos de sucesso dos negócios on-line em alguns sectores de serviços, como são o caso da banca electrónica, ou da venda de bilhetes e viagens, a generalidade das indústrias de bens de consumo portuguesas não encarou, até agora, a Internet de forma estratégica, reduzindo, a maior parte das vezes, a sua presença na “Net”, a uma mera página de apresentação da empresa, com a mesma valia das páginas amarelas ou, quando muito, a um catálogo on-line, não raras vezes incompleto ou desactualizado. Neste trabalho, procura-se analisar em que medida as indústrias de bens de consumo, podem conceber a sua presença na Internet, de forma integrada com a sua estratégia, utilizando este veículo para criar ou desenvolver modelos de negócios e produtos, que proporcionem valor aos consumidores. A metodologia adoptada comportou os seguintes passos: revisão de literatura e construção do quadro teórico de referência, com a identificação de conceitos e definições relevantes para a compreensão da temática em estudo; trabalho empírico de carácter exploratório, para o qual foi construído um inquérito, com o qual se pretendeu analisar um conjunto de variáveis fundamentais à compreensão do assunto em estudo; análise e discussão dos dados recolhidos; e, finalmente, uma formulação de conclusões. A revisão da literatura, ocupa os três primeiros capítulos. No primeiro, são analisados os conceitos de comércio electrónico e negócio electrónico, a caracterização dos consumidores no que respeita à utilização que fazem da Internet e a forma como a internet pode ser utilizada para potenciar o valor da oferta das empresas. O segundo capítulo centra-se na forma como a Internet pode se enquadrada no desenvolvimento das estratégias de marketing. Por fim, o terceiro capítulo incide sobre a problemática da confiança e da segurança “online” e sobre a importância da articulação das variáveis do marketing-mix, para estabelecer a confiança no negócio electrónico. Os dois capítulos seguintes tratam do trabalho empírico, sendo que o quarto capítulo descreve a delimitação do estudo, os objectivos estabelecidos, a metodologia adoptada e a forma como foi estruturado o inquérito e, no quinto capítulo, fazse a análise de dados e a respectiva discussão. O trabalho termina com o sexto capítulo, onde são apresentadas as conclusões e onde se enumeram alguns temas susceptíveis de investigação futura, que este estudo permitiu identificar. ABSTRACT: In spite of the enormous potential of e-business, we can verify in Portugal some apathy in the development of business forms, in which the Internet shows up as the core strategy, either if it is being used as a sales channel, or even if it is used uniquely as the means of communicating and connecting with the company’s current and potential customers. Notwithstanding the examples of success of online business in some segments of services, such as e-banking and travel or ticket selling, the majority of the Portuguese consumption goods’ industries has not yet looked at the Internet in a strategic way. Continually, their presence on the Net is not more than a simple page with the company’s presentation, having as much significance as the Yellow Pages, or a mere online catalogue, which is often incomplete or not updated. This document will analyse in which way the consumption goods’ industries can conceive their presence on the Internet, integrating it with their strategy, and using this vehicle to create or develop models of business and products, which will bring value to their customers. The method adopted held the following actions: literature revision and conception of a theoretical reference outline, with concept identification and relevant definitions for the understanding of the thematic in study; empirical work with an exploratory nature for which it was constructed a survey which sought to analyze a set of core variables to the understanding of the subject under study, analysis and discussion of data collected and, finally, drawing of conclusions. The literature revision occupies the first three chapters. The first chapter analyses the concepts of electronic commerce and electronic business, the characterization of consumers regarding their use of the Internet and how the Internet can be used to enhance the value of companies’ offers. The second chapter focuses on the ways the Internet can be framed in the development of marketing strategies. Finally, the third chapter deals with the issue of trust and security online and the importance of coordination of the variables of marketing-mix to build trust in e-business. The next two chapters deal with the empirical work where the fourth chapter describes the scope, objectives, methodology adopted and the structure of the survey used to collect data, and the fifth chapter contains the analysis of data and its discussion. The work ends with the sixth chapter, where the conclusions are presented and where some themes for future research that this study helped to identify are listed.
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Gericke, Conrad G. "Evolutionäres E-Business Performance Measurement : ein Ansatz zur Messung der Electronic Business Performance /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00065611.pdf.
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Hongelin, Ira, and Johanna Jansson. "Business Models in the E-Commerce : Integrating Credit Risk Management to Business Models." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-205684.
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The development and complexity of the e-commerce sector has increased the demand forcompanies to grasp and develop their business models, as well their credit risk managementfunctions, in order be profitable and create value. This thesis examines how credit riskmanagement can be integrated in a business model, in terms of a customer value proposition,profit formula, key processes and key resources. Theories about business models state that abusiness model should give a holistic view of the company and how it operates. Features for asuccessful model should include functions that create value and increase competitiveness, as wellas generating valuable cost and risk structures to ensure the company’s profitability. The empiricaldata was collected through interviews and secondary data at Klarna, a company that operates withpayment solutions in the e-commerce, a market where the risk of credit losses is high and to haveproper credit risk functions is a necessity. The result revealed that credit risk management is afundamental part of a business model in the e-commerce, since effective credit risk managementfunctions ensure that the elements of a business model are functional and complement each other.The study further found that there are certain prominent functions in each one of the four elementsthat enable the integration of credit risk management in the business model.
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Bjursten, Amanda, Lina Classon, and Ida Steen. "Investigating Technology Acceptance towards E-commerce within the Work Wear Sector : A study within business-to-business about business clients’ technology acceptance towards e-commerce." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-30257.
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Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to study business clients’ technology acceptance of e-commerce within business-to-business in the work wear sector. In specific, develop and test a framework in order to analyze the antecedents of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use behind business clients’ behavioral intention to the usage of e-commerce. Problem: There is not sufficient research regarding industries and companies that are categorized as laggards (Del Aguila-Obra & Padilla-Melendez, 2006), and furthermore regarding clients’ technology acceptance in a business-to-business context (Doherty & Ellis-Chadwick, 2010). Actors within the work wear sector conduct their businesses in the most traditional way, with physical stores (Ekberg, Fraenkel, Gustavsson, Hamsten & Hedin, 2014). The question is whether this traditional way remain due to skepticism among the business clients’ and their level of technology acceptance. Method: A proposed framework is developed by the authors, adapted from Technology Acceptance Model (Venkatesh & Davis, 2000) and Diffusion of Innovation Theory (Rogers, 1983). This framework is tested through quantitative research, and more specific a questionnaire. Subsequently, the empirical data gathering is assembled, analyzed and concluded into a final proposed framework. Findings: The final proposed framework incorporates antecedents from the proposed framework, but also new influences that are identified in the empirical findings as relevant. These influences are Age, Gender, Experience and Compliance. Further, the antecedents presented in the final proposed framework are the following: Subjective norm/Opinion leaders, Job relevance/Compatibility, Output quality, Result demonstrability/Observability and Trialability.
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Bartelt, Andreas. "Elektronische Verhandlungen in verteilten E-Business-Systemen." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=971984670.
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Pimenidis, Elias. "Risk based analogy for e-business estimation." Thesis, Abertay University, 2011. https://rke.abertay.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/034771e1-1e5b-4c97-9f01-be4b9c52c537.
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Over the past fifteen years, new technologies have enabled the evolution of e-business and as new trends on web based applications develop at a very fast pace, projects to implement new and adapt existing e-business systems are becoming more complex in their structure. At the same time, organizations involved as stakeholders are becoming more demanding in the delivery of fast, accurate and timely results. Where interconnected e-business systems, such as Value-Added-Communities, are concerned the key criteria of success, in addition to the quality of the technical work, are the timely completion of the project and an accurate estimate of the launch time. Given the nature of such e-business development projects, estimating their duration cannot be based on traditional estimation methods that target the estimation of human effort originally and then attempt to convert this to cost and duration. This research explores a new approach aiming to improve the accuracy of estimates for e-business development projects, obtained at the early stages of the project. The key objective is to modify the estimation by analogy approach by using risk as the key element that along with project size and complexity are used to identify analogues and determine analogies amongst projects. The author established the behaviour of risk with the variation of certain project attributes that define a project’s size and complexity at the very early stages of the project, before detailed requirements are identified. The variation of risk was subsequently employed, with a modification to the estimation by analogy method, to establish analogies on suitably identified analogues to the project to be estimated. The ISBSG project data repository has been used as source for potential analogue projects in testing the proposed method. Four project cases were considered. New estimates have been obtained using the modified estimation approach method and the results were compared to the original estimates for the projects, obtained using traditional methods. Results obtained within the context of this research are encouraging and suggest that there is credibility to the proposed modification. The accuracy of the estimates is within acceptable tolerance levels and shows signs that it can improve on the quality of estimates obtained from traditional methods when applied to e-business development projects. More research is required though to expand and fully exploit the potential of this approach. In particular the author believes that the approach could be further fine tuned for improved accuracy of the estimated duration. This risk based estimation by analogy approach could then be applied to other types of projects which share characteristics with e-business projects such as, demands for short time development, complex interactions of stakeholders and accuracy in the time of completion. Types of projects where the proposed method could possibly be utilized are web services implementation, computer games development and cloud computing projects.
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Nguyen, Phu-Nhan, and n/a. "Smart Clients for small E-business framework." University of Canberra. Information Sciences & Engineering, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060803.104619.
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Businesses with less than 20 employees are regarded as small businesses. The four main
types of small business structures are mostly Sole Trader, Partnership, Trust, and
Company. E-commerce is the transformation of key commerce processes through the
use of the Internet. E-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing and servicing
of products and services over the Internet. The benefits of E-commerce are reduction in
costs, convenient communication and performance of the business process. Several
models for E-commerce are Business to Business (B2B), Business to Customer (B2C),
Business to Employee (B2E), Business to Government (B2G), and Customer to
Customer (C2C).
This thesis considers the small typical business structures in Australia to build a
framework for small business. Small Business Framework (SBF) is developed to
provide a framework to design and implement Web applications for Smart Clients and
applications for E-commerce and M-commerce models which are mainly B2B and B2C.
The SBF�s components are database, email, electronic payment, products, orders, and
login. The technology requirements to operate the SBF are Personal Digital Assistants
(PDA), Unicode, Web Server, Visual Studio .NET 2003 (VS .NET) and provision of
services through Internet. In order to test and evaluate SBF, an Online Asian Grocery
Mobile (OAGM) application has been developed for B2C using MS Visual Studio .NET
2003 (VS.NET). Results showed that the SBF is a good framework for small businesses
and the OAGM is a sucessful application prototype since OAGM provides good
accessibility, saves time, and is effective.
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Kalanidhi, Sanjeev 1970. "E-business strategy : an industry clockspeed perspective." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8734.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-68).
The Internet is a communications network that connects computers around the world. It has been around since 1960's. The Internet Phenomena - the recent upsurge in business use of the Internet can be attributed to the World Wide Web or the web. The web uses universally accepted communication protocol and presentation language (i.e. Internet Protocol and Hyper Text Markup Language) that makes it a standard interface - a ubiquitous interface. Businesses are leveraging the Internet to obtain a variety of business benefits. Based on an extensive literature review, this thesis presents a catalogue of 35 distinct business benefits. To obtain these benefits, businesses are undertaking a variety of projects and initiatives. The projects and initiatives, termed as E-business apply the Internet technologies for improving existing business processes, removing barriers within a business, and or among businesses in the supply chain. This thesis organized E-business projects into eight different areas. This thesis explores the Internet Phenomena - it attempts to understand the potential Impacts of the Internet on the supply chain, and proposes some guidelines for management teams interested in choosing E-business projects. By mapping E-business benefits along a typical supply chain, this thesis observes that the Internet is creating structural and operational impacts in the supply chain. The structural impacts appear to result from (a) the growth of a direct channel (b) the presence of new economic agents and (c) new marketplaces. The operational impacts appear to be that (a) the scope of supply chain operations change (b) the scale of supply chain operations are enhanced and (c) the speed of supply chain operations increase. The thesis suggests ten perspectives that may help a management team choose E-business projects. It examines one perspective in detail - the Industry perspective. The industry perspective suggests that differences in industry structures should lead to differences in business needs and requirements, and therefore lead to different e-business opportunities. A hypothesis, based on an industry classification system (proposed by Charles Fine of MIT), was developed. The Internet is a communications network that connects computers around the world. It has been around since 1960's. The Internet Phenomena - the recent upsurge in business use of the Internet can be attributed to the World Wide Web or the web. The web uses universally accepted communication protocol and presentation language (i.e. Internet Protocol and Hyper Text Markup Language) that makes it a standard interface - a ubiquitous interface. Businesses are leveraging the Internet to obtain a variety of business benefits. Based on an extensive literature review, this thesis presents a catalogue of 35 distinct business benefits. To obtain these benefits, businesses are undertaking a variety of projects and initiatives. The projects and initiatives, termed as E-business apply the Internet technologies for improving existing business processes, removing barriers within a business, and or among businesses in the supply chain. This thesis organized E-business projects into eight different areas. This thesis explores the Internet Phenomena - it attempts to understand the potential Impacts of the Internet on the supply chain, and proposes some guidelines for management teams interested in choosing E-business projects. By mapping E-business benefits along a typical supply chain, this thesis observes that the Internet is creating structural and operational impacts in the supply chain. The structural impacts appear to result from (a) the growth of a direct channel (b) the presence of new economic agents and (c) new marketplaces. The operational impacts appear to be that (a) the scope of supply chain operations change (b) the scale of supply chain operations are enhanced and (c) the speed of supply chain operations increase. The thesis suggests ten perspectives that may help a management team choose E-business projects. It examines one perspective in detail - the Industry perspective. The industry perspective suggests that differences in industry structures should lead to differences in business needs and requirements, and therefore lead to different e-business opportunities. A hypothesis, based on an industry classification system (proposed by Charles Fine of MIT), was developed.
by Sanjeev Kalanidhi.
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Lane, Donna N. Losciuto. "Evaluating E-textbooks in a Business Curriculum." NSUWorks, 2006. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/657.
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Given the growing popularity of electronic textbooks (e-textbooks) in academia, it is important to evaluate the educational value of such textbooks and whether users can interact with the interface. The problem identified in this study is how to effectively use e-textbooks in a four-year undergraduate business curriculum to facilitate student learning. The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the educational usefulness of etextbooks.
The secondary goal was to evaluate the user interface usability of e-textbooks. Two methods of evaluation were used in this study. A web-based survey was used and the sample included current student users of e-textbooks in a variety of business topics in four-year undergraduate business schools. Survey requests were provided to instructors identified as using e-textbooks, who forwarded the survey to the students. There were 166 student responses to the web-based survey. A user review was used and included a "think-aloud" method of evaluation in which participants were asked to perform tasks with one business e-textbook and complete a questionnaire. The participants used included seven undergraduate business students enrolled at Southern Oregon University in a business course in which an e-textbook was used and presented in the Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 format.
The investigator expected to provide insight to what ways e-textbooks enable students to meet learning objectives. The web-based survey results showed students are satisfied with the criteria presented and deemed important in evaluating the educational usefulness of e-books. A key finding in the web-based survey was the dissatisfaction that users reported on the ability to edit, mark and annotate when using e-textbooks. These features are considered to be important assets in promoting the use of e-books. The investigator also expected to provide insight to what ways e-textbook interfaces make possible the performance of the tasks required of students. The user review results showed students are satisfied with the criteria presented and deemed important in evaluating the user interface usability of e-books. A key finding in the user review was that users sought paper book metaphors for finding information in the e-textbook that were not available.
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Arias, E. Juan Carlos, R. Juan Pablo Jil, and D. Loreto Valdebenito. "El impacto del e-business en Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2003. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/111515.
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Tesis para optar al grado de Ingeniero en Sistemas de Información y Control de GestiónEs consabido por todos que en las ultimas dos décadas muchos son los eventos que han transformado el entorno socioeconómico. Todos somos consientes de los grandes cambios tecnológicos, pasando por los cambios en los procesos de comunicación, la telemática, la informática y la robótica, así como de los flujos de información en tiempo real y de manera casi instantánea, los nuevos modos de hacer economía y comercio, la gestión del conocimiento, los avances en logística y tantos otros cambios de nuestro tiempo a los que indudablemente no podemos ser indiferentes. El Internet está redefiniendo el mundo de los negocios. En la actualidad, los clientes tienen el poder para exigir el mejor servicio posible, los más bajos precios y los menores tiempos requeridos para la obtención de beneficios. En este nuevo mundo, el éxito se alcanza mediante actividades colaborativas desarrolladas dentro de redes multiempresariales que le ofrecen el mayor valor posible a cada integrante de la comunidad. Tales comunidades deben ser flexibles y abiertas para que se adapten dinámicamente y respondan a los cambios en las necesidades de los clientes, sin tener que despilfarrar tiempo en labores de generación puntual de interfaces. Dentro de este entorno digital nace el E-business, termino que va mas allá de simplemente hacer negocios en la red, las empresas han aprendido que solo llegaran a ser lideres en el mercado aquellas que logren entender que el e business es mas que construir un portal y esperar que los clientes lo visiten. Universidad de Chile El Impacto del E- bussines en Chile El comercio electrónico permite a las empresas ser más flexibles con sus operaciones internas y dar mejor servicio a los consumidores. Este fenómeno ha sido toda una revolución tecnológica. Algunas empresas han empezado partiendo de cero a apostar por esta nueva manera de hacer negocios. Sin embargo, la gran mayoría son empresas de carácter tradicional, que consideran el comercio electrónico como un aspecto complementario a su negocio, del que día a día hay que ir aprendiendo. La investigación contenida en este seminario, busca reflejar la realidad en términos de lo que es actualmente el E-business en Chile y su consecuente impacto en la manera de hacer negocios. Partiendo de este objetivo principal, primeramente damos una visión general del entorno en el que se desenvuelve el E-business enmarañando conceptos que permitan un entendimiento cabal sobre el tema en cuestión, el seminario no pretende ser una guía ni un manual sobre e business sino simplemente quiere reflejar el impacto que causa y seguirá causando esta nueva forma de hacer intercambio. Al avanzar en materia, el lector se ira encontrando con distintos componentes fundamentales para el desarrollo del E-business, claro esta con un enfoque hacia la situación chilena. Se abordaran temas tan interesantes y necesarios como son la seguridad, los tipos de comercio electrónico, la legislación, el E-marketing, así como el rol fundamental que cumple el gobierno en el desarrollo de este complejo tema. Utilizamos y analizamos el concepto de lo que es Internet como una herramienta de comunicación interactiva de desarrollo clave para la globalización de las empresas y organizaciones en una economía centrada en el cliente. Especial énfasis hemos dado a la factura electrónica, herramienta recientemente aplicada en Chile y de la cual a nuestro juicio no existe un claro entendimiento de su funcionalidad y aplicabilidad. Universidad de Chile El Impacto del E- bussines en Chile Pretendemos desarrollar el tema de manera didáctica apoyados en algunas graficas y dibujos de modo que el lector pueda comprender y entender en extenso lo que queremos informar. Finalmente damos a conocer nuestras conclusiones y nuestro parecer frente a este apasionante tema, junto con esto hacemos algunas criticas al modelo chileno y damos lo que a nuestro entender serian posibles soluciones. Finalmente solo pretendemos ser un puente entre el lector y este maravilloso mundo que si sabemos aprovechar puede entregarnos grandes satisfacciones
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Shi, Jiwei. "Enterprise development : SME growth through e-business." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2010. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5947/.
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The opportunity for SMEs growth through its use of e-b/c has long been advocated by government, practitioners and academics. This research identifies the opportunities, benefits and impact of developing a e-business/ e-commerce framework/tool for this. It reviews e-business/ecommerce definitions, driving forces, initiatives, uptake, progress, barriers, success factors, models, strategies and best practice. It also reviews the characteristics and the importance of small and medium sized enterprises and their impact on the economy. In addition, the research explores the purpose and use of benchmarking and self-assessment tools for improving business performance. The research identified similarities and differences between small, medium and large companies. Due to the differences in nature and best practice strategies adopted by larger companies may prove to be unsuitable and impractical for smaller companies to follow. Through a number of case studies the research identified that the current e-b/c activity level is very low amongst SMEs (studied firms were mainly based in the Merseyside region), therefore e-b/c system integration appears to be an unrealistic target for the vast majority. Although there is no pattern or formula for e-b/c success, it is possible to evaluate the level of e-activity in each main business area to reflect the level of systems integration, and also to evaluate their e-b/c involvement and key actions for growth. The research identified that e-b/c success is driven by business needs, supported by ICT competence and executed by actions based on priorities. More importantly, a range of critical success factors that may have significant influence over e-b/c adoption and development were also identified. Certain factors can be advanced in order to improve a firm's overall e-b/c performance whereas other factors cannot be improved within a short time frame. The key findings of the research contribute to the current body of knowledge by identifying a set of enabling factors that may potentially influence an SME's capability to be successful in e-b/c adoption and development. It exposed a range of specific (fixed) factors which are typically difficult to implement within SMEs. In contrast, variable factors have the potential to be improved. Eight variable factors were specifically highlighted, forming a unique '8 dimensions factor' model and subsequently used as the basis for a proposed e-b/c self assessment framework. The research confirms that it is feasible for the e-b/c self assessment tool to be implemented and validated for commercial purposes and it could be specifically tailored for a business sector or country. The research outcomes set a natural scene for future research in a wider and global context, encompassing additional business sectors and global companies.
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Nechala, Marek. "e-Business a ICT - nástroje konkurenceschopnosti EU." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4247.
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The thesis identifies the role of e-business and ICT in the economy of the present European Union and their function in increasing EU's competitiveness in the world's economy. It maps and evaluates help of the public sector of the European Union for this important component of modern economy. The thesis also describes current state of e-business and ICT both in the European Union and the world and outlines their probable future development.
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Daněk, Lukáš. "Řešení Business Intelligence pro e-shopové platformy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-191990.
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This diploma thesis' main subject is to design a service that automatically analyses (e-shop) data, interprets them and consequently provides users with results of this analysis via web service. Design of this service includes concept composition its technical solution and market verification. The main purpose of this thesis is to design an online service for small and medium sized e-shops, that will (based on provided data) deliver information for e-shop performance optimization. Aspects taken into account are service functionality, its technical solution and business plan destined for its market launch. Theoretical part focuses on analysis of online analytical tools that are available for users on market. It looks at internet e-shops market and analyses users' requirements for analytical tool/service either. This part delivers a list of currently available analytical platforms and services that are convenient for e-shops to be used. Then these tools are compared amongst each other. Criteria for comparison are the usability of service, its user experience, positive and negative aspects related to these predefined criteria. Practical part of this thesis specifies functional and non-functional requirements on service, its user interface. The whole concept is verified on market by interview. Discovered requirements are consequently applied in technical solution design and business plan composition. Overall view of functionality and feasibility of the newly designed service and its verification in real environment is the preoccupation of this part as well.
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Laquaglia, Carlo Pio. "E-Commerce: la nuova frontiera del business." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/4513/.
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Korfias, Dimitri. "Business response to Gauteng s e-tolling." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52425.
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Companies have been faced with the decision of whether or not to comply with e-tolling since its inception in 2013. Media coverage on e-tolling has reflected many negative opinions, though these are mostly from private citizens. Despite the dismissal of legal challenges against e-tolling s implementation, collections of e-tolls remain well short of SANRAL s budgeted figures. Responsible decision makers within companies ultimately make the compliance decisions.
This research aimed to investigate business compliance to e-tolling. Relevant academic literature was reviewed in order to form a basis for exploration of this topic. The constructs identified from the literature were fairness of the e-tolling system, the efficiency of public spending with respect to the construction of the upgraded freeways, the financial impact that e-tolling is having on companies and whether companies are complying with e-tolling. Quantitative research was conducted on the responses received from surveys sent to members of the RFA.
The findings reveal that e-tolling is perceived to be an unfair system. E-tolling was having a negative impact on company finances yet, companies displayed an overwhelming compliance toward e-tolling. The findings also revealed that much of the literature relevant to individuals was not applicable to companies.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Buzato, Eduardo El Khouri. "Dos negócios tradicionais para o e-business." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/5610.
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Previous issue date: 2000-07-06T00:00:00ZTrata das mudanças que as empresas tradicionais deverão promover na sua estratégia, modelo de negócios, estrututa organizacional, infraestrutura de informática e formação de quadro de pessoal para transformar-se em um negócio eletrônico (E-business)
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Standing, Susan. "Creating business value through e-marketplace trading." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/584.
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Electronic marketplaces (e-marketplaces) have been researched over many years from the study of electronic data interchange (EDI) systems to the current internet based trading platforms. Early e-marketplaces connected a buyer and supplier using proprietary systems that established a market hierarchy. The buyer was responsible for the system, established the terms of trade and the electronically enabled supplier could connect to the system. These systems were costly to build, which limited their use, and only organisations with an integrated system could use them. The web based e-marketplaces opened up the possibility of connecting many buyers and suppliers and enabling electronic transactions. The e-marketplace offers opportunities for establishing trade relationships with many organisations across the world. Business to business (B2B) e-commerce is a significant part of the Australian economy and there are opportunities to take advantage of e-marketplace trading. One of the advantages of electronic trading is the ability of the technology to deliver transaction benefits; these can have a significant impact on organisations regardless of organisational size. However, despite the potential of the e-marketplace to deliver organisational benefits there have been limited studies which consider the strategic implementation of e-marketplace trading.
Organisational strategy and the implementation of strategic initiatives involve interactions between organisational structures and agents. The analytical dualism this represents complicates uncovering the fundamental causes of e-marketplace participation. Not only does the adoption of e-marketplace trading impact on the buyer and supplier organisations, it introduces the e-marketplace vendor organisation and the e-marketplace technology into the participation decision. The complexity of the interactions across organisational structures and between organisational agents and technology adoption can produce a diversity of outcomes.
The philosophical underpinning of critical realism for the study is supported by the lack of understanding as to why, and in what circumstances, organisations successfully participate in e-marketplace trading. The critical realist philosophy provides the opportunity to understand the interrelationships between context, organisational structures and agents and identify the causal mechanisms involved in producing various outcomes. It allows for the development of middle level theory as existing theories are examined to explain the perceived phenomena.
Large organisations operating in Western Australia are used as case studies to uncover the causal relationships between context, structures and agents that can produce successful, strategic implementation of e-marketplace participation. Existing literature in relation to e-marketplaces and IT adoption is used to develop the research questions and formulate the interview questions. The structured case methodology is used to analyse each case and relate the findings to possible explanatory theories. Context, mechanism and outcome patterns, identified in each case, are presented.
Building on economic market, institutional and network theories the research identifies organising vision theory and community discourse as explanations for organisational legitimation that can circumscribe the use of e-marketplace trading. Six types of community group that influence organisational adoption of e-marketplace technology are identified. The research suggests that the influence of these groups within the organisation, the fit with organisational culture and strategic objectives can prevent or instigate change. Further, the decision making process supported by the group (or group member) is more influential in the strategic adoption of the e-marketplace than the ability of the technology to deliver efficiency or transaction processing gains. This implies that technology adoption studies should include contextual and environmental issues and practitioners should examine how much their decision making is influenced by organisational and environmental features.
The thesis contributes to the discussion on organising vision theory, e-marketplace trading and business value creation. It demonstrates the application of the structured case study methodology to research that is underpinned by critical realism.
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Bottazzo, Anna <1986>. "Business Incubator: modelli e traiettorie di sviluppo." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4096.
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Sin dalla prima concezione negli anni Cinquanta, il business incubator si è continuamente evoluto nel tempo, adattando e adeguando i servizi offerti ai bisogni delle imprese incubate. Questa tesi presenta un'indagine sul ruolo del business incubator a supporto delle hardware start-up, all'interno di un contesto economico che sta riscoprendo e rivitalizzando il settore manifatturiero.
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Scantamburlo, Giada <1991>. "Il Business Plan e la sostenibilità ambientale." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/9920.
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Valutazione del business plan quale documento di importanza sempre maggiore nella vita di un'impresa. Dopo aver contestualizzato la redazione di tale documento, si passa ad esaminare le varie parti da cui è composto per delineare in modo completo il nuovo progetto, il mercato target, i fornitori, i concorrenti, la parte finanziaria ed economica, con la redazione dei budget. Tutto ciò in un'ottica di sostenibilità ambientale, analizzando le norme che delineano le certificazioni ambientali. Concludendo con il controllo ex-post, ossia effettuato al termine del periodo di programmazione, con la confronto tra i valori programmati e i valori effettivi.