IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijnvor/v8y2011i3-4p224-240.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The impact of business-to-business electronic marketplaces: a field study

Author

Listed:
  • Shan Wang
  • Shi Zheng

Abstract

Although business to business electronic marketplaces (EMs) are new phenomena and their impact on firms is still limited, its worth well keeping track of the impacts since more and more firms participate in EMs. This research is a preliminary study of the impact of EMs. Five aspects of EM impacts are studied, including business value of EMs, EM impact on price and competition, and buyer-supplier relationships, learning effects and satisfaction with EMs. The results of the survey show that buyers in EMs more and more demonstrate market-like purchasing behaviour, although, long-term relationships with existing suppliers are still valued. There are both tangible and intangible benefits of using the service of EMs. However, not all the benefits contribute to buyer and supplier satisfaction with EMs. Suppliers are more satisfied with tangible benefits but sellers are more satisfied with purchasing decision improvements as a result of the learning effect on EMs.

Suggested Citation

  • Shan Wang & Shi Zheng, 2011. "The impact of business-to-business electronic marketplaces: a field study," International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(3/4), pages 224-240.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:8:y:2011:i:3/4:p:224-240
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=39996
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Zabukovšek Simona Sternad & Šišovska Irena & Mravljak Monika & Bobek Samo, 2015. "E-business in Micro Companies: Lessons learned / E-poslovanje v mikro podjetjih – nova spoznanja," Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy, Sciendo, vol. 61(2), pages 15-23, April.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:8:y:2011:i:3/4:p:224-240. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=22 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.