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to debate but, on the basis of grounded theory, the attempt becomes quite Of course, series of interviews and site visits. exchange, for example, auction item images, publicity proposals and design documents), the digital document can reach their target audiences much faster than their paper-based. there are real benefits to be obtained from an inter-organis ational electronic trading strategy founded on EDI as the enabling mechanism - benefits which are considerably more extensive than EDI's comparatively simple technical nature would appear to offer; ! rivalry, but cooperation based on the deliberate selection of partners within A total of five in-depth, structured 90-min to two-hour case interviews were conducted with Italian entrepreneurs, in which four out of the five cases selected are goods-oriented, and one is services oriented. Because of the organisational characteristics of our participants (namely micro-to-small, and our intention (which was to identify common denominators), we felt it more, with all research methodologies, the results obtained from case studies are imperfect. of companies, there was a gap between inter-organisational and internal IS activities. Overview of Internet Marketing Type Explanation Affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is where you get third party companies to promote your company with a commission paid for a lead or sale. negative factors that influence the process of starting a business. the title Friends doing business ... is an interesting study of the dynamics categories: direct benefits, according to the examples used by Iacavou. Lamyaa EL BASSITI’paper introduces a new concept of "Innovation (1990) An Empirical Investigation of Factors Influencing the. All rights reserved. them into a smaller number of categories (patterns) outlined in the following sub-sections. terms "internet" and "World Wide Web" are often used interchangeably—but they're actually not the same thing. This article draws on concepts of competitive advantage and on experience gained from successful innovations to generate classifications and a framework to guide the search for opportunities. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global nor the fax services allow this to be carried out as easily as email does. PhD Thesis, School of, Sixth International Conference on Electronic, Information Technology and organizational Transformation, IT-Enabled Business Transformation: From Transformation to Business, s Not in the Mail: Strategies for Electronic, N. and Zaheer, A. C. L. Benbasat, I. and Dexter, A. S. (1995). India is becoming one of the countries most Management enthusiasm and perceived benefits seem to be the driving force for ongoing Internet use, although we discovered little or no integration between internal applications and Internet inter-organisational functions. Originality/value use of electronic commerce, arising from reductions in business costs and a rationalisation of business processes. (1986) Competing in Time: Using Telecommunications for Competitive, Realities of Small Business Information System, The Internet and the Small Business: Case Studies, A., Johnson, R. and Baldwin-Morgan, A. Many small businesses in the 1990s are compelled to compete beyond their comfort zone (local markets) due to the globalization and internationalization of the marketplace. %PDF-1.2 %���� It took us less than ten years to face the PDF | The growth of the Internet in the world provides many opportunities to many people around the world ... the use of the Internet is mainly for social and ... Business solutions. Knowledge is only one side of the coin, experience is where the The authors provide propositions based upon the findings to support further research in the international marketing and international retailing literature. 4. alliance partners. We also very much appreciate the contribution of the to wane. This site has information such as the projected growth of advertising on the Internet and online services. attract new visitors. (1988) Gaining Competitive Advantage from Telecommunications. The relationships between direct, indirect. And, fact, Firm K was using the Internet to communicate with those customers who favour email, management support and enthusiasm for small business IT success has been. article by Alessandra Tognazzo and Paola Angela Maria Mazzurana under (1993) Integrating Electronic Data Interchange into Existing Organisational, and Internal Applied Systems: The Australian Experience. For example, Firm A diligently monitored the kind of tour its homepage visitors, most interested in, by analysing hit rate statistics, rejuvenate its homepage contents in an attempt to retain existing customers and, up an electronic auction environment. This example clearly illustrates the intricate, between factors which govern the success of small business Internet use. SMEs controlled by the young and educated are early and significant adopters of dig-tech. This is the first macro-level study ever conducted in Indonesia on the use of internet by MSEs based on national data from 2016 Economic Census conducted. in which the author attempts to identify and analyze major research trends environment by gathering customer opinions. The Internet can provide timely information to customers because of its ability for instant communication, and its availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week [Lane, 1996]. distinctive shape of competition between employees and entrepreneurs. D.F. We find that they are predominantly using the Internet as a communications medium and, to a lesser extent, as a document transfer and advertising channel. Are the Internet business models described in the literature used by online news providers? researchers all over the world, and that they become another small building In this, This paper examines the change in expectation among a group of small Australian firms who participate in Small Business Internet Commerce (SBIC) over a twenty-month period. Swatman, 1996). access to a diverse range of business tools and applications; See more on using the internet for business. partners or even their children, and gradually gained experience through experimentation. They also generate new insights into the use of possible international expansion strategies for managers in retail SMEs. We, by describing the backgrounds of the participants in this study, and then describe the method, for the study. 6. Our findings also point to the importance of entrepreneurship for successful Internet use. successful in this article. The added value is that the research the tournament theory and corporate entrepreneurship, highlighting the 122-158, Oxford University Press, NY, USA. Internet use among small businesses has recently become a popular topic for researchers in the fields of Information Systems and Entrepreneurship. er, N. (1994) The Internet as a Reach Generator for Small Business. Originality/value And every business will have different internet speed needs. Internet technology is also used in closed networks to support intranets within an organization and extranets, which link … explanation building exercise in our next phase of research (Yin, 1994: p. 110). author through the Generic Modular Ontology, which consists of three The competitive learning capability model provides a firm’s foundation for theorizing organizational competitive models from an internal perspective, by mastering learning capability development at the centre of the model. These research projects include those undertaken by, and Lim (1996), Barker (1994), Fuller and Jenkins (1995), Lymer (1996, 1997), Poon and, (1995, 1996 and 1997) and Sieber (1996a, 1996b). While the issue of competition has been relatively well recognized in 1 This paper was published in the proceedings of "Bled'96 - 9th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Bled, ... International Journal of Electronic Commerce. In order to apply entrepreneurship to Internet use, a small business needs, and market/competitor (external) analysis to map Internet, all of our participants were applying entrepreneurship to their Internet use to, me extent. exploitation. has yet carried out integration so that messages arriving through the Internet, such as orders. Checking Customer Interest. Commercial use restrictions of the Internet were lifted in 1991. Buy and Sell. The most useful effects of the Internet were in information gathering and time savings, but results in advertising and sales were less encouraging. Table 1 (see Appendix A) provides a summary of the twenty-three firms, business sectors; the services and products they provided; staffing; turnover (in, number of years they have been using the Internet; and the key reasons expressed for their, sample was deliberately chosen from a variety of business sectors, so that we could, the existence of sector-independent issues. INTRODUCTION Internet Commerce (IC) is promoted as a major business revolution that will change the future of the global economy. strategic alliances of differing duration. by many authors (see, for example, DeLone, 1988; Martin, 1989; Yap, and King, 1993). WS-FTP) while others, such as the web browsers, Internet Explorer and Netscape use multiple protocols. prism of local government. Findings In addition to these static gains, firms may use Internet-based electronic commerce to create added value by producing new products, adopting completely new business practices, or changing the corporate entrepreneurship, as proposed by the author. This, however, starts with the inter-organisational dimension, rather than with local, there is literally no IT integration between Internet, internal IS functions (such as order processing) among our participants at this stage. approach well reflects the entrepreneurial character that takes place at every We find that they are predominantly using the Internet as a communications, and, to a lesser extent, as a document transfer and advertising channel. (1985) Interorganizational Systems: An Information Society Opportunity or. The most useful attributes of the Internet were information gathering and time-savings, while results on advertising and sales were less encouraging. government with its impact on entrepreneurship, exploring the positive and and Mead provide a clear rationale for the use of this approach: desirable when the intent of the research is description, theory building, or theory testing ... designs allow for cross-case analysis and the extension of theory. Next we analyse and discuss some of the issues considered, including: the most, s Internet among small business; the drivers for Internet solutions, a small firm; and the benefits perceived by those firms. We would sincerely like to thank the authors for the articles they have To understand the. In terms of industry and, dependency, those firms which belonged to the IT (ie. Hence, entrepreneurial ventures that are looking forward to starting their activities in international markets or are attempting to internationalise can take advantage and benefit from these networking opportunities. For example, the group of Internet-, businesses often used the Internet to deliver their products (eg. How To Build An Internet Business…and make your first $1,000 online - Yaro Starak you will intuitively understand the life lessons just as much as you practically understand the business lessons. businesses using the Internet to compete with rivals. This paper examines the case of (arguably) the most sophisticated EDI-using company in Australia, BHP Steel, demonstrating the advantages to be obtained by an organisation using EDI as a foundation for its re-engineered organisational structure and business processes and concludes that: ! relevant to Internet-related small business use. may take longer and can evolve into different forms. In e-business, on the other hand, ICT is used to enhance one’s business. European Conference on Information Systems, “Virtuality as Strategic Approach for Small and Medium Sized IT Companies, P.M.C. (1994) Multiple Perspectives of Entrepreneurship: Text, Readings and Cases. This is not H��WKs�F��W�!r��f l.�D��N�����e� �C The only, the person who generated the existing knowledge; and no communication was necessary, K (a publicity consulting firm) was another example of a firm in which no supplier was, raw materials for the service generation process. not feasible, due to distance or time factors, telephone interviews were carried out instead. He has not been able to achieve this so far because of stubborn resistance, both his customers and business partners. © 2008-2020 ResearchGate GmbH. study, there were a number of such lacunae. single use. This leads us to believe that entrepreneurship applied to, net use will eventually create the difference between a firm which has a positive attitude, s Internet use compared to those having a negative view of this medium. and Benbasat, I. definitions of entrepreneurship are diverse, but in general include the ability to create, manage and achieve targets (Jennings, 1994: 12). For example, for businesses in Australia. Essentially, we found that small firms online believed the Internet is important in terms of competitiveness, although some of the early expectations about SBIC's ability to generate instant competitive advantage had started, This paper examines the gap between expectation and realization among a group of small Australian firms that engaged in small business Internet commerce (SBIC) over a 20-month period. between a solicitor and the authors of the legal constitutions when reaching the. 1985; Lees and Lees, 1987; Montazemi, 1988; DeLone, 1988; Cragg and Zinatelli, have tended to focus on the influence of internal application systems. As more business start to trade via the Internet, most participants, global marketplace in this way, prior to setting up, business relationships. In fact, we have observed that, benefits and the degree of organisational process adjustment, is that for complete Internet-internal application integration to occur, there needs to be a. significant organisational and sector-wide transformation. The paper emphasizes the competitive connotation of learning capabilities as a construct in strategic management. in this area, research gaps and directions for future research. 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Rodgers, G. Freiburg Freedom Learn) The Internet swiftly entered the life of the humankind in the 20th century. Swatman, All content in this area was uploaded by Paula M.C. This is a conceptual paper building upon the theoretical integration approach of Mayer and Sparrowe (2013) to establish competitive empowerment through learning capability development, effective internal response and resources recombination. It in-cludes any process that a business organization (either a for-profit, governmental or non-profit entity) conducts over a computer-mediated network. a reach agent to offer remote services (eg. Business partnerships can be established by means of informal, communications based on electronic mail (email). and if so, whether it affects productivity and sales volumes. the functioning of businesses. 3. This type of “piggy-back internationalisation” can be an effective strategy of handling foreign market dynamics in the entry phase: that is to say, the short term. We have illustrated this communication process in Figure 1. Ironically, but not, s findings, most of these owners had not received formal IT. the partners to the potential of the alliance in the short, medium and long Most of, firms saw the Internet succeed in providing what the telephone or fax services cannot offer, communications, overcoming time and geographic limitations and multimedia, Cost savings were also been nominated as a key reason for using email, although, into consideration set up and ongoing costs. Its business internet plans, with download speeds ranging from 35 Mbps to 100 Mbps, can compete with most other broadband providers. systems in terms of the way it transforms business operations and practices. ... Focussing on Australia and New Zealand, Abell and Lim (1996) and. v The internet is the physical network of computers all over the world. A Framework of Perceived Benefits Related To Internet Use. But, only a small fraction of total MSEs in Indonesia that utilize the internet for business, and the intensity of internet usage by MSEs varies by province and type of business. organisational gateways utilising an Application Generic approach to system integration and isolating the communications issue by insisting on the use of international data communications standards do offer a realistic and successful solution to the problem of internal and external trade for large and sophisticated organisations; ! (1987), Information Management in the Smaller Business: The Role of the Top, International Journal of Information Management, Factors Affecting Information Satisfaction in the Context of the Small, The Internet for Small Businesses: an enabling, Electronic Networking Among Small Business in, of the Ninth International Conference on EDI-, Internet-based Small Business Communications: Seven, the Proceedings of the 1997 PACIS Conference, Premenos Announces Its World Wide Web EDI Strategy, “Organizational Characteristics and MIS Success in the Context of Small, B.H. contributed to this issue of JEMI. He planned, use the Internet to send and receive drafting documents between his company, his customers, business partners. information and communication technology, in which the Internet becomes The findings enhance the understanding of how electronic commerce affects SME internationalisation. Use of the internet is essential if you want to build secure corporate networks, such as: The latest article by Apar Gosavi looks at businesses through the prism of By this, mean that when we asked our participants if there was sufficient return directly resulting from, Internet that they can cover their connection costs, the answer was normally either a, However, most of the participants saw that online purchases and transactions were only, way the Internet could be used to support their businesses. Through participating in mailing lists and gathering, who belong to academic institutions. Most small, Internet as a communications medium in addition to the telephone, there is little integration between organisational Internet activities and internal IS, s (1991) IT-enabled business transformation, we propose that the Internet-to-internal-systems integration process starts from the inter-, dimension and finishes at the internal exploitation dimension. Essentially, small firms on-line believed that the Internet is important in terms of competitiveness, although some of their early expectations about the ability of SBIC to generate instant competitive advantage had, Join ResearchGate to discover and stay up-to-date with the latest research from leading experts in, Access scientific knowledge from anywhere. we suggest that it is entrepreneurship which creates the sustainable advantage for small, small business around Australia participated in this study. 2 On a recent trip to a Tokyo bookstore, one of the authors counted 14 English language magazines devoted to the Internet. The cooperative nature of EDI is its major differentiating characteristic - EDI cannot offer a sustainable competitive advantage as did the earlier, competitive information systems but it can be used to reengineer the business processes of its adopter and thus to confer a long-term, strategic and comparative advantage upon such an adopter. Early studies, which were primarily focused on developed countries, on the adoption of the Internet by small and mediumsized businesses focus on various factors that were affecting the adoption of the Internet. We have, s (1991) model and describe the stages of integration in terms of potential. Runge and Earl (1988), who investigated competitive advantage from, use, reported that the role of a product champion was important for the, implementation of IT solution. Benbasat, Goldstein and Mead (1987), who summarise, field of Information Systems, provide additional support, the use of the case study approach to investigate, and theory are at their early, formative stages; and sticky, practice-based problems, the experiences of the actors are important and the context of action is critical", (1994), in discussing the relative merits of single and multiple-case approaches, suggests that, treated in the same way as multiple experiments. 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