Realising B2B e-commerce benefits: The link with IT maturity, evaluation practices, and B2BEC adoption readiness

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 806-819

  Lin, Chad ^a   Huang, Yu An ^b   Burn, Janice ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

B2B e commerce adoption readiness; B2B e commerce benefits; IT benefit realisation processes; IT investment evaluation methodologies; IT maturity

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249060627     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000724     Document Type: Article

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