IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

E-Business Strategy and Firm Performance

E-Business Strategy and Firm Performance
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Jing Quan (Perdue School of Business, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 11
Source title: Technological Advancement in Developed and Developing Countries: Discoveries in Global Information Management
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): M. Gordon Hunter (University of Lethbridge, Canada)and Felix B. Tan (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-920-5.ch017

Purchase

View E-Business Strategy and Firm Performance on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

Electronic business (e-business) has been popularly lauded as “new economy.” As a result, firms are prompted to invest heavily in e-business related activities such as supplier/procurement and online exchanges. Whether the investments have actually paid off for the firms remain largely unknown. Using the data on the top 100 e-business leaders compiled by InternetWeek, this chapter compares the leaders with their comparable counterparts in terms of profitability and cost in both short-run and long-run. The authors find that while the leaders have superior performance based on most of the profitability measurements, such superiority is not observed when cost measurements are used. Based on the findings, this chapter offers managerial implications accordingly.

Related Content

Alice S. Etim, Wole Michael Olatokun. © 2024. 20 pages.
Lilian C. Mutalemwa. © 2024. 27 pages.
G. Nixon Samuel Vijayakumar, Vinay Kumar Domakonda, Shaik Farooq, B. Senthil Kumar, N. Pradeep, Sampath Boopathi. © 2024. 34 pages.
Elisha Mupaikwa, Kelvib Joseph Bwalya. © 2024. 35 pages.
Oluwatoyin Catherine Agbonifo, Samuel Ibukun Olotu, Toyosi Ayo Oluwatusin. © 2024. 22 pages.
James S. Etim. © 2024. 19 pages.
Vanessa Hiu Ying Chan, Dickson K. W. Chiu. © 2024. 24 pages.
Body Bottom