The Internet-driven electronic marketplace has been presented as a mean of enhancing collaboration between buyers and suppliers while generating significant advantages for both parties. Nevertheless, the introduction of online reverse auctions (ORA) in the negotiation process has been perceived as a resource that decreases ...

The evaluation of the performance of information technology and information systems has, over the past three decades, been the object of numerous studies using a wide range of models. Few of them have focused on the study of efficiency, and even fewer still on the development of a specific research model. This paper helps ...

Virtual professional communities provide an environment for professionals to share their knowledge and develop their skills without geographical constraints. Virtual professional Communities became strategic instruments for enterprises, especially for the fields of Research and Development, maintenance and product ...

Web-based information sources have evolved to an essential element in our daily and professional life. To process this faster and faster growing amount of information, web portals provide personalized access to specific information and communication services. In this paper, an example from urban planning is given. In ...

Due to the increasing use of e-business technologies, the corresponding Net Economy has evolved into an established trade level. It is characterized by numerous entrepreneurial ventures equipped with innovative online business models. Technological advance and changes in customer behaviour implicate that the physical and ...

The concept of Virtual Organization is widely discussed in the literature. The SICOV project aims to develop a generic web-based platform to support the Virtual Organization creation and work. This paper intends to present the SICOV position in the VO concept field and the main characteristics of the platform. Some ...

In the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector, cooperation between actors is essential for project success. During the building construction activity, organization is both hierarchical, transversal and adhocratic. Moreover coordination mechanisms are strongly dependant on trust perception by the actors. ...

This article deals with enterprise interoperability in order to propose lines of research about information system design in a collaborative context. The static and dynamic dimensions of collaboration are exposed and discussed. The proposed IS design approach is based on process model translation. This article also ...

Public e-procurement is the use of electronic means for publishing, processing, exchanging and storing all the information related to institutional purchases and provisioning in public organizations. It requires complex technological tools which must comply with legal and organizational constraints. In this paper, we ...

Companies implementing an IS/IT backsourcing strategy (i.e. bringing IT functions back in-house after they have been outsourced) aiming at increasing operational effectiveness may face several problems. In this paper, we develop a framework characterizing backsourcing as an organizational innovation. We offer a set of ...