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Special Issue of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal on B2B Research

Web Site <<<http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-5753<underline><color><param>000 0,0000,ffff</param>http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/1389-5753</color></unde rline>>

Guest Editors

Sigmund W. Handelman, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY USA

Raj Veeramani, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA

Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, ISRAEL

Scope and Topics:

"Business-to-business e-commerce will rise to $6.3 trillion in 2005 from

$336 billion in 2000, reports Jupiter Research." How has

B2B reached this level, and how is it poised to keep on rising? Many

standards efforts over the years have created common infrastructures that

have made B2B succeed: EDI, the Internet, the Web, XML, Database Standards

and more. On top of this infrastructure Portals, Marketplaces, Exchanges

and Extranets have been setup in Industries in a Global Setting. Success

stories and setbacks have been reported in the development of B2B over the

past years.

A goal of the special issue is to look at B2B technologies and analyze how

they meet strategic needs of companies. This includes an analysis of the

Internet as part of the Value Chain of traditional businesses; see where

the Internet can be a technological improvement to different parts of this

chain. How do the B2B technologies effect cooperation and competition

between companies? What types of old and new services are possible and

their effect. How do they effect product development and differentiation?

What are successful development and implementation strategies?

This special issue of the Electronic Commerce Research Journal is devoted

to the theory and application of B2B technologies. Topics for submission

include but are not limited to:

§ Global Case Studies

§ New Work Force Issues

§ Impact of B2B on economic Development

§ B2B Case Studies

§ Communications Costs and Technology

§ Challenge of Common Standards above the Infrastructure

§ Regulatory issues in B2B

§ Security Aspects of B2B Commerce

§ Legal issues of B2B Commerce

§ Trust Issues between Businesses

§ Payment and settlement issues

§ Dispute resolution in B2B

§ Product description and cataloguing

§ Auctioning methods and price determination

§ Agents in B2B

§ Contract Creation in B2B

§ Ownership and Operation of Market Places

§ Business Models and Modeling

§ Charging Methods for B2B services

§ Cross Border Aspects of B2B

Important dates:

Paper Submission: July 15, 2001

Paper Acceptance: December 15, 2001

Journal to be published: 2002

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit Original Papers in PDF or postscript files of

their papers to swhandel@us.ibm.com <<<mailto:swhandel@us.ibm.com<underline><color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param

mailto:swhandel@us.ibm.com</color></underline>>. All

manuscripts should be formatted using the "Kluwer

Style" file. The style files can be found at <<

<underline><color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param><http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.h tm/STYLEFILEShttp://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/STYLEFILES%3E</color></underline>. There is no page limit for

submitted papers.

Contact Sigmund Handelman at swhandel@us.ibm.com <<

<underline><color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param><mailto:swhandel@us.ibm.comm ailto:swhandel@us.ibm.com></color></underline> for questions.

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