Advances in E-Business Research (AEBR): 64 Volumes

Series Editor(s): In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

ISSN: 1935-2700|EISSN: 1935-2719

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Technology has played a vital role in the emergence of e-business and its applications incorporate strategies. These processes have aided in the use of electronic transactions via telecommunications networks for collaborating with business partners, buying and selling of goods and services, and customer service. Research in this field continues to develop into a wide range of topics, including marketing, psychology, information systems, accounting, economics, and computer science.

The Advances in E-Business Research (AEBR) Book Series provides multidisciplinary references for researchers and practitioners in this area. Instructors, researchers, and professionals interested in the most up-to-date research on the concepts, issues, applications, and trends in the e-business field will find this collection, or individual books, extremely useful. This collection contains the highest quality academic books that advance understanding of e-business and addresses the challenges faced by researchers and practitioners.

Topics Covered

B2B e-marketplaces
Collaborative commerce
E-Business Management
E-business models and architectures
E-business standardizations
E-business strategies
E-business systems integration
E-business technology investment strategies
Economics of e-business
E-CRM
Electronic Communications
Electronic Supply Chain Management
E-Marketing
E-procurement methods
E-Services
Evaluation methodologies for e-business systems
Global e-business
Intelligent Agent Technologies
Interorganizational information systems
Mobile Business Models
Online Consumer Behavior
Outsourcing and e-business technologies
Semantic Web
Social Network
Sustainable E-business
Telework and Telecommuting
Trends in e-business models and technologies
Trust, Security, and Privacy
Valuing e-business assets
Virtual Collaboration
Virtual organization
Web 2.0
Web advertising
Web Service-Based Business Systems

Titles in Series

New Business Frontiers in the Metaverse

Shivani Inder (Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, India), Shuchi Dawra (Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, India), Kyla Latrice Tennin (College of Doctoral Studies, University of Phoenix, USA), Sandhir Sharma (Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, India)

The metaverse has emerged as an influential force, beckoning entrepreneurs to navigate uncharted territories. Platform and gaming companies strategically position th...

Multidisciplinary Analysis of Digital Transformation and Global Market Dynamics

Ahdi Hassan (Global Institute for Research Education and Scholarship, The Netherlands), Shakir Ullah (Southern University of Science and Technology, China), Sergey E. Barykin (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Russia), Elena de la Poza (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

In today's fast-evolving digital landscape, businesses, governments, and societies are grappling with the complex challenges of digital transformation. From shif...

Revolutionizing Customer-Centric Banking Through ICT

Dharmendra Singh (Modern College of Business and Science, Oman), Garima Malik (Birla Institute of Technology Management, India), Swati Bhatnagar (New Delhi Institute of Management, India)

Many developing countries face a significant challenge: their population needs access to essential financial services. This financial exclusion limits their ability...

Cases on Social Media and Entrepreneurship

Syed Far Abid Hossain (BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

In the 21st century, social media has emerged as a pivotal force shaping business strategies and entrepreneurship. The rapid evolution of social media platforms pose...

Role and Impact of Digital Accelerators and Virtual Support Programs on Early-Stage Startups

Marco Lamas (ISLA-IPGT, Portugal), Carlos Miguel Oliveira (ISLA-IPGT, Portugal), Slava Baranovskiy (University of Liverpool, UK)

Role and Impact of Digital Accelerators and Virtual Support Programs on Early-Stage Startups is a game-changing scholarly resource for entrepreneurs and policymakers...

Digital Business and Optimizing Operating Strategies

Gökhan Akel (Antalya Belek University, Turkey), Mustafa Atahan Yılmaz (Pamukkale University, Turkey)

In the rapidly evolving digital era, businesses undergo profound transformations requiring strategic adaptation and optimization. Digital Business and Optimizing Ope...

Building Smart and Sustainable Businesses With Transformative Technologies

Hamed Nozari (Department of Management, Azad University of the Emirates, Dubai, UAE)

The digital revolution has brought about a significant shift in the business landscape, making it crucial for organizations to adapt and leverage transformative tech...

Metaverse Applications for New Business Models and Disruptive Innovation

Muhammad Anshari (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei), Muhammad Syafrudin (Sejong University, South Korea), Ganjar Alfian (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

It is expected that the metaverse will be the next generation of the internet and its online activities and will serve as the foundation for a massive online busines...

Driving Transformative Change in E-Business Through Applied Intelligence and Emerging Technologies

Hamed Taherdoost (University Canada West, Canada)

Investments in technologies such as the cloud, the internet of things (IoT), and robotic process automation are part of a strategy that helps organizations respond t...

Digital Technologies for Entrepreneurship in Industry 4.0

Elena G. Popkova (MGIMO University, Russia)

In the digital economy, a new type of business activity, digital entrepreneurship, has developed rapidly and required breakthrough technologies such as blockchain, b...

Virtual Technologies and E-Collaboration for the Future of Global Business

Jingyuan Zhao (University of Toronto, Canada), Joseph Richards (California State University, Sacramento, USA)

Effective collaboration technologies and tools are critical to the development of contemporary business landscapes, especially as more businesses offer fully remote...

Navigating Digital Communication and Challenges for Organizations

José Gabriel Andrade (University of Minho, Portugal), Teresa Ruão (CECS, Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Public involvement has the power to promote an active circulation of media content and can generate economic and cultural value for organizations. The current perspe...

Handbook of Research on Smart Management for Digital Transformation

Belem Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal), Sandra Filipe (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Claudia Amaral Santos (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

In a global and digital society, businesses are constantly being challenged by innovative and disruptive management strategies. The dramatic changes that took place...

Handbook of Research on Digital Transformation, Industry Use Cases, and the Impact of Disruptive Technologies

Martin George Wynn (University of Gloucestershire, UK)

Companies from various sectors of the economy are confronted with the new phenomenon of digital transformation and are faced with the challenge of formulating and im...

Handbook of Research on Pathways and Opportunities Into the Business of Esports

Sharon Andrews (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA), Caroline M. Crawford (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)

Esports have attracted considerable attention over the past few years and become an industry that is projected to continue to increase rapidly. Intersecting with the...

Complex Systems and Sustainability in the Global Auditing, Consulting, and Credit Rating Agency Industries

Michael I. C. Nwogugu (Independent Researcher, Nigeria)

Current and future issues in the global accounting/consulting, business opportunity, and credit rating agency (CRA) industries can have significant multiplier-effect...

Handbook of Research on Management and Strategies for Digital Enterprise Transformation

Kamaljeet Sandhu (University of New England, Australia)

From traditional brick and mortar to new start-ups, businesses are harnessing the power of digital enterprise as a cost-effective model to deliver goods and services...

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Crowdfunding Platforms

Carla Sofia Vicente Negrão (University of Coimbra, Portugal), João António Furtado Brito (University of Cape Verde, Cape Verde)

An emerging area of study in today’s society is the increasing number of crowdfunding platforms across the world. Crowdfunding plays an integral role in global econo...

Impact of Globalization and Advanced Technologies on Online Business Models

Ree Chan Ho (Taylor's University, Malaysia), Alex Hou Hong Ng (INTI International University, Malaysia), Mustafa Nourallah (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)

Online business has been growing progressively and has become the major business platform within the past two decades. The internet bulldozed the development of new...

Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital Era

Sachithra Lokuge (RMIT University, Australia), Darshana Sedera (Southern Cross University, Australia)

Though entrepreneurship has been studied for decades, in recent years, the study of “rural entrepreneurship” has emerged as an upcoming subtopic of the area. With th...

Advanced Digital Architectures for Model-Driven Adaptive Enterprises

Vinay Kulkarni (TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, India), Sreedhar Reddy (TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, India), Tony Clark (Aston University, Birmingham, UK), Balbir S. Barn (Middlesex University, London, UK)

The five digital forces (mobility and pervasive computing, cloud, big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, and social media) are poised to bring great academi...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Transformation and Innovation

Rocci Luppicini (University of Ottawa, Canada)

Business approaches in today’s society have become technologically-driven and highly-applicable within various professional fields. These business practices have tra...

Implications and Impacts of eSports on Business and Society: Emerging Research and Opportunities

David J. Finch (Mount Royal University, Canada), Norm O'Reilly (University of Guelph, Canada), Gashaw Abeza (Towson University, USA), Brad Clark (Mount Royal University, Canada), David Legg (Mount Royal University, Canada)

The global gaming market, due to numerous technological advancements in social media networking and live-streaming video, has exploded in recent years. However, this...

Tools and Techniques for Implementing International E-Trading Tactics for Competitive Advantage

Yurdagül Meral (İstanbul Medipol University, Turkey)

The use of ICT applications has dipped into almost every aspect of the business sector, including trade. With the volume of e-commerce increasing, international trad...

Handbook of Research on Strategic Fit and Design in Business Ecosystems

Umit Hacioglu (Istanbul Medipol University, Turkey)

With advancing information technology, businesses must adapt to more efficient structures that utilize the latest in robotics and machine learning capabilities in or...

Business Transformations in the Era of Digitalization

Karim Mezghani (Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia & University of Sfax, Tunisia), Wassim Aloulou (Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia & University of Sfax, Tunisia)

In order to establish and maintain a successful company in the digital age, managers are digitally transforming their organizations to include such tools as disrupti...

E-Manufacturing and E-Service Strategies in Contemporary Organizations

Norman Gwangwava (Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana), Michael Mutingi (Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia)

Continuous improvements in digitized practices have created opportunities for businesses to develop more streamlined processes. This not only leads to higher success...

Multi-Sided Platforms (MSPs) and Sharing Strategies in the Digital Economy: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Sergey Yablonsky (St. Petersburg University, Russia)

Rapid technological advancements have the ability to positively or negatively impact corporate growth and success. Professional leaders and decision makers must cons...

Crowdfunding and Sustainable Urban Development in Emerging Economies

Umar G. Benna (Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria), Abubakar U. Benna (Durham University, UK)

Economic and societal systems continually evolve as the needs and demands of society change. With the development of new technologies, research, and discoveries, var...

Improving E-Commerce Web Applications Through Business Intelligence Techniques

G. Sreedhar (Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Deemed University), India)

As the Internet becomes increasingly interconnected with modern society, the transition to online business has developed into a prevalent form of commerce. While the...

Optimizing Current Practices in E-Services and Mobile Applications

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)

In the modern world of mobile applications, the expansion of e-services, self-services, and mobile communication constantly allows for new multidisciplinary developm...

Mobile Platforms, Design, and Apps for Social Commerce

Jean-Éric Pelet (ESCE International Business School, Paris, France)

While social interactions were once a personal endeavor, more contact is now done virtually. Mobile technologies are an ever-expanding area of research which can ben...

Key Challenges and Opportunities in Web Entrepreneurship

Alexandru Capatina (Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania), Elisa Rancati (University of Milan – Bicocca, Italy & Beta Consulting, Italy)

The development of web technologies has enhanced the availability of online business opportunities for entrepreneurs. By implementing these new technologies, busines...

The Internet of Things in the Modern Business Environment

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

The industrial internet is a new and upcoming technology that is changing the practices of organizations and corporations everywhere. Through research and applicatio...

Apps Management and E-Commerce Transactions in Real-Time

Sajad Rezaei (Taylor’s University, Malaysia)

Technology is continuously advancing and changing the way aspects of business are performed. The implementation of mobile business transactions to acquire various ty...

Driving Innovation and Business Success in the Digital Economy

Ionica Oncioiu (Titu Maiorescu University, Romania)

Advancements in the digital world are bringing about rapid waves of change in organizational management. As such, it is increasingly imperative to discover ways for...

Social Media Listening and Monitoring for Business Applications

N. Raghavendra Rao (FINAIT Consultancy Services, India)

Social Media has transformed the ways in which individuals keep in touch with family and friends. Likewise, businesses have identified the profound opportunities pre...

Analyzing the Strategic Role of Social Networking in Firm Growth and Productivity

Vladlena Benson (University of West London, UK), Ronald Tuninga (Kingston Business School, UK), George Saridakis (Kingston University, UK)

Social media platforms have emerged as an influential and popular tool in the digital era. No longer limited to just personal use, the applications of social media h...

Securing Transactions and Payment Systems for M-Commerce

Sushila Madan (University of Delhi, India), Jyoti Batra Arora (Banasthali Vidyapeeth University, India)

Mobile commerce, or M-commerce, is booming as many utilize their mobile devices to complete transactions ranging from personal shopping to managing and organizing bu...

E-Retailing Challenges and Opportunities in the Global Marketplace

Shailja Dixit (Amity University, India), Amit Kumar Sinha (Amity University, India)

The internet has become a flexible platform upon which global retail brands can expand and grow. With a greater emphasis on and opportunity for new market opportunit...

Successful Technological Integration for Competitive Advantage in Retail Settings

Eleonora Pantano (Middlesex University London, UK)

The advent of new technologies has been an impetus for rapid development in several industries, including the area of retail services. These recent advances push ind...

Strategic E-Commerce Systems and Tools for Competing in the Digital Marketplace

Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A. (Information Resources Management Association, USA)

As financial systems migrate to a pervasive, online environment, business leaders and layman investors alike must adapt to changes in the market brought about by thi...

The Evolution of the Internet in the Business Sector: Web 1.0 to Web 3.0

Pedro Isaías (Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal), Piet Kommers (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Tomayess Issa (Curtin University, Australia)

Efficiency and Efficacy are crucial to the success of national and international business operations today. With this in mind, businesses are continuously searching...

RFID Technology Integration for Business Performance Improvement

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

The development of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields for wireless data transmission has presented several new opportunities for sharing, tracking, and reading d...

Integrating Social Media into Business Practice, Applications, Management, and Models

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

Social networking has emerged as a predominant form of communication and human interaction. Businesses have also adopted social networks as a means for interacting w...

Electronic Payment Systems for Competitive Advantage in E-Commerce

Francisco Liébana-Cabanillas (University of Granada, Spain), Francisco Muñoz-Leiva (University of Granada, Spain), Juan Sánchez-Fernández (University of Granada, Spain), Myriam Martínez-Fiestas (ESAN University, Perú)

Recent innovations in the field of information technology and communications are radically changing the way international organizations conduct business. In this com...

Trends in E-Business, E-Services, and E-Commerce: Impact of Technology on Goods, Services, and Business Transactions

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

The emergence of internet technologies have provided organizations and customers with access to vast amounts of data, information, and services which have revolution...

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Business Convergence, Computing, and Legality

Reema Khurana (Institute of Management Technology-Ghaziabad, India), Rashmi Aggarwal (Institute of Management Technology-Ghaziabad, India)

As digital technologies develop, companies envision new ways to incorporate ever more disparate elements in their products, such as the combination of computing powe...

Research and Development in E-Business through Service-Oriented Solutions

Katalin Tarnay (University of Pannonia, Hungary & Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Sandor Imre (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Lai Xu (Bournemouth University, UK)

As businesses are continuously developing new services, procedures, and standards, electronic business has emerged into an important aspect of the science field by p...

Mobile Services Industries, Technologies, and Applications in the Global Economy

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

As business paradigms shift from desktop-centric environments to data-centric mobile environments, mobile services create numerous new business opportunities. At the...

Strategy, Adoption, and Competitive Advantage of Mobile Services in the Global Economy

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

As business paradigm shifts from a desktop-centric environment to a data-centric mobile environment, mobile services provide numerous new business opportunities, and...

Electronic Commerce Management for Business Activities and Global Enterprises: Competitive Advantages

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

Electronic Commerce Management for Business Activities and Global Enterprises: Competitive Advantages is written as an e-commerce textbook for undergraduate and grad...

Strategic and Pragmatic E-Business: Implications for Future Business Practices

Karim Mohammed Rezaul (Glyndwr University, UK)

In emerging and global economies, e-commerce and e-business have become increasingly necessary components of business strategy and strong catalysts for economic deve...

E-Novation for Competitive Advantage in Collaborative Globalization: Technologies for Emerging E-Business Strategies

Hugh M. Pattinson (University of Western Sydney, Australia), David R. Low (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

The Web has metamorphosed into a powerful vehicle for the development and delivery of new, emergent products and services, creating vast implications for organizatio...

Electronic Business Interoperability: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges

Ejub Kajan (State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia)

Interoperability is a topic of considerable interest for business entities, as the exchange and use of data is important to their success and sustainability. Electro...

Transforming E-Business Practices and Applications: Emerging Technologies and Concepts

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

As e-business grows vital to managers across the globe, there is a need for resources that assist in their understanding of key aspects and implications of related o...

Handbook of Research on Mobile Marketing Management

Key Pousttchi (University of Augsburg, Germany), Dietmar G. Wiedemann (University of Augsburg, Germany)

Mobile communication techniques revolutionize marketing in its gain of consumer time and attention for advertiser support. This groundbreaking type of marketing prov...

Handbook of Research on Telecommunications Planning and Management for Business

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

Telecommunications planning and management has become increasingly important in this digital economy as significant implications for corporate strategies are constan...

Emergent Strategies for E-Business Processes, Services and Implications: Advancing Corporate Frameworks

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

Recently, e-business applications have evolved beyond business transactions and services to include customer relationship management (CRM), mobile computing, Web min...

Semantic Web for Business: Cases and Applications

Roberto Garcia (University of Lleida, Spain)

The Semantic Web has been around for some years with recent advances in mature technologies and applications. Lately, its development has been demonstrated in its co...

Cyberlaw for Global E-business: Finance, Payments and Dispute Resolution

Takashi Kubota (Waseda University, Japan)

As the various types of global e-business grow rapidly, the need to establish adequate cyberlaws is increased. Reformation of domestic and global laws has been under...

E-Business Models, Services and Communications

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

With the rapid advancement in information technologies, e-business is rapidly growing in significance and is having a direct impact upon business applications and te...

Social Implications and Challenges of E-Business

Feng Li (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

The rapid development of the Internet and e-business has created not only lucrative economic opportunities, but also significant social challenges, with profound imp...

E-Business Innovation and Process Management

In Lee (Western Illinois University, USA)

E-business research is currently one of the most active research areas. With the rapid advancement in information technologies, e-business is growing in significance...

Editor(s) Biography

In Lee is a professor in the School of Computer Sciences in the College of Business and Technology at Western Illinois University. He received his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of E-Business Research. He has published his research in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers and Education, Computers in Human Behavior, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Business Process Management Journal, Journal of E-Commerce in Organizations, International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling, and others. His current research interests include technologies for SMEs, e-commerce technology development and management, investment strategies for computing technologies, and intelligent simulation systems.

Editorial Advisory Board

Editor-in-Chief

In Lee, Western Illinois University, United States

Editorial Advisory Board

Androniki Kavoura, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece

Donald L. Amoroso, Auburn University of Montgomery, United States

Edward T. Chen, Robert J. Manning School of Business, United States

Efstathios Kefallonitis, State University of New York at Oswego, United States

Ejub Kajan, State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia

Ela Ozkan-Canbolat, Cankiri Karatekin University, Turkey

Elisa Arrigo, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Goetz Greve, HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration, Germany

Hung-Pin Shih, Hsuan Chuang University, Taiwan

Jasmine Yeap, Universiti Sains, Malaysia

Jihui Chen, Illinois State University, United States

Keng-Boon Ooi, UCSI University, Malaysia

Kenneth C.C. Yang, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States

Kijpokin Kasemsap, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Thailand

Maria Petrescu, Nova Southeastern University, United States

Mark Xu, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Ming-Hsiung Hsiao, Shu-Te University, Taiwan

Mohamed A. Nour, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Narasimha Paravastu, University of Central Missouri, United States

Nina Helander, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Nuray Terzi, Marmara University, Turkey

Pengtao Li, California State University, United States

Pingjun Jiang, La Salle University, United States

Preetam Basu, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India

Stuart Dillon, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia

Wiboon Kittilaksanawong, Saitama University, Japan

Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, United States