Preface VI analysis of recent research in B2B electronic marketplaces in supply chain management. The second is Bell and Nguyen's profound and important connections established between business intelligence and the semantic web. Finally, this section closes with Kaewkitipong's candid and very timely look at the gaps between theory versus practice of disintermediation in the tourism industry.The papers in this LNBIP volume were selected exclusively from the e-Commerce and e-Business (eBIZ SIG) tracks at the 16 th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), which was held in Lima, Peru on August 12-15, 2010. Overall, 48 papers were submitted to eBIZ SIG related tracks at AMCIS 2010, 28 were accepted for the conference and 13 were selected for this volume.We would like to thank the contributing authors, the eBIZ SIG track chairs and the reviewers who contributed to this effort. We would also like to thank Ralf Gerstner and Christine Rei from Springer for their support in the production of this LNBIP volume.