---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: JECR Special edition Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 21:45:43 +0100 From: Ashok ranchhod@BTINTERNET.COM To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

May Edition of Journal of e-Commerce Research http://www.csulb.edu/web/journals/jecr/ Guest Editor Prof. Ashok Ranchhod, Southampton Business School, East Park Terrace, Southampton, SO14 0RH, Tel : 023 80 319541 home e-mail: ranchhod@btinternet.com This edition contains some interesting papers on E-commerce from a range of different global perspectives. Paper 1 A Conceptual Foundation for Versatile E-Commerce Platforms Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank, Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Rheinau 1, 56075 Koblenz, Visitor Address; Rammsweg 1, Tel: 49-261-287-2522 E-Mail: ulrich.frank@uni-koblenz.de This paper looks at how business processes can be realigned by the utilisation of powerful information systems for e-commerce. The article is directed at object-oriented modeling of products that are offered on e-commerce websites. A powerful approach is mapped out, based in part on the use of meta concepts. The author originated this approach within the design of a reference model for e-commerce platforms on the Internet. Paper 2 Adoption of On-line Trading in the Hong Kong Financial Market Adela Lau and Jerome Yen, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR smlau, jyen@se.cuhk.edu.hk and Patrick Y. K. Chau School of Business The University of Hong Kong pchau@business.hku.hk This paper considers the issues affecting investor adoption of on-line trading in the Hong Kong financial market. The system looked at provides straight-through trading for investors rather than order routing systems that forwards orders from a broker firm to the appropriate market. This paper focuses on the social/organizational perspective by using a research model based on the Decomposed Version Theory of Planned Behavior (DTPB) to identify the factors that affect investors adoption of on-line trading. A correlation analysis is performed to investigate whether the hypothesized attributes, variables, and belief structure are correlated with each other. Paper 3 Collaborative Commerce: The Role of Intermediaries in e-Collaboration Susan A. Sherer ,Professor, Lehigh University, College of Business and Economics, 621 Taylor Street Bethlehem, Pa. 18015, 610-758-3424 , sas6@lehigh.edu Bill Adams, President and CEO, G5 Technologies, Inc., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, 856-354-9454 b.adams@g5technologies.com A model for implementing collaborative commerce in which independent companies form temporary alliances by combining their capabilities and capacity to meet market needs is proposed. Lessons from a case study of one of the earliest tests of agile collaboration among small firms, the Agile Web, Inc. guides implementation. The study illustrates that small firm owners may not have the expertise, time, or inclination to initiate new opportunities outside their existing markets, nor can they effectively manage across unfamiliar enterprises. An intermediary or a domain expert is required whose major responsibilities include: the identification of market opportunities, forming collaborative teams, and project managing the resulting virtual enterprise. Internet enabled information systems enhance the intermediaries productivity, enabling speedy formation, design, and operation of these alliances.

Paper 4 Inhibitors to EDI Adoption in small businesses: An Empirical Investigation Patrick Y.K. Chau, School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Tel: (852) 2859 1025, Pchau@business.hku.hk While electronic data interchange (EDI) has been discussed in the literature as a technology that can provide several advantages, both strategic and operational, to its adopters, the adoption rate, especially that of small businesses, has not been as high as predicted. The question is why? Based on data collected from more than four hundred and sixty non-EDI adopters, these results suggest that the three most significant inhibitors to EDI adoption in small businesses are all related to the degree of organizational readiness, rather than to those factors related to the costs and benefits of adopting the technology or the influence exerted by external parties such as the government, industrial partners or EDI vendors.

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