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What is E-Partnership

Chapter 79
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
A partnership relying on electronic (information) technologies to communicate and interact amongst partners. It is mostly associated with e-commerce or e-business partnerships.
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Business Relationships and Organizational Structures in E-Business
Fang Zhao (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch079
Abstract
In today’s e-business, context, technology, customers, competitors, and partners can change rapidly. Technology can become obsolete in the blink of an eye and customers can appear and disappear with a keystroke. There are practically no barriers to new entrants (competitors) in an e-business world. Likewise, e-business partnerships and virtual organizations become ephemeral and opportunistic in nature. This article explores the dynamics of the changing nature, process, and practice of business relationships and network form of organizations in the cyberspace. It also identifies and discusses a series of management issues raised in the processes of e-partnerships and virtual organizations.
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Chapter 93
Technological Challenges in E-Collaboration and E-Business
Theoretically, e-partnership refers to a business partnership relying on electronic (information) technologies to communicate and interact amongst partners. As e-business has become an integral part of most business practices where consumers, suppliers, buyers are connected by information technologies, the term e-partnership is mostly associated with electronic commerce partnerships, and in a broader sense, electronic business partnerships.
Published in Chapter: Technological Challenges in E-Collaboration and E-Business; From: Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration
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