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Small and Medium Enterprise's Benefits of Next Generation e-Business Platforms
Journal
The Business Review, Cambridge
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2006-12-13
Author(s)
Hoyer, Volker
Janner, Till
Mayer, Peter
Raus, Marta
Schroth, Christoph
Abstract
In this work, we propose a novel e-Business architecture that takes into account the specific needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The envisioned system supports collaborative and evolutionary modeling, semi-automatic negotiation and finally execution of business processes and ensures true interoperability through a common semantic repository. Potential business partners are enabled to easily retrieve each other and initiate business relations in an extremely intuitive manner. With the help of the Balanced Scorecard approach, we thoroughly investigate economic benefits SMEs will experience when participating at this system. The analysis highlights advantages regarding five different perspectives: SMEs may capitalize from reduced operating costs and improved gains (financial perspective), increased customer satisfaction and retention (customer perspective), faster and more efficient internal processes (internal working process perspective), improved supply chain integration (supply chain perspective), and technological advancements (system benefits).
Project(s)
Language
English
Keywords
e-Business benefits
SME
business value of IT
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
The American Academy of Business and ABI/ Proquest
Volume
10
Number
2
Start page
8
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
30931