The Building of a New Business Ecosystem: Sustaining National Competitive Advantage Through Electronic Commerce

Farhoomand, Ali F.; Ng, Pauline S. P.; Yue, Justin K. H.

doi:10.1207/s15327744joce1104_05

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“…], have become very competitive in the present day world because of a proactive focus on advanced and specialized resources like skilled manpower, and ICT [Teo and Lim 2004]. Hence, at the macro level, countries derive competitive advantage by effectively managing their national resource configurations [Farhoomand et al 2001;Porter 1990].…”

Section: Business Competitivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is the actual usage of these technologies [resources] which leads to an impact on the organizational performance. Similarly, at the national level, countries derive competitive advantage by "effectively utilizing" their national resources [Farhoomand et al 2001;Porter 1990]. The online services offered by the government must not only be usable but must also encourage citizens to participate in the e-government process [Beckerb 2005;Kaylor et al 2001;UN Report 2004].…”

Section: E-government Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Relationship between E-Government and National Competitiveness: The Moderating Influence of Environmental Factors

Srivastava¹,

Teo²

2008

CAIS

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Using secondary data from 113 countries and the literature on Resource Based View [RBV] and Information Technology [IT] impact as the guiding theoretical lenses, we examine the relationships of e-government development and e-participation with national business competitiveness. E-government development represents the level of functional sophistication of e-government Web sites in a nation whereas e-participation is the level of country's willingness to engage citizens in e-government processes. In addition, we analyze the moderating role of country environment on the relationships between e-government development and business competitiveness and also between e-participation and business competitiveness. Our results highlight strong association of e-government development as well as e-participation with national business competitiveness. Further, our results also show the moderating role of human capital, public institutions and macroeconomic conditions on the relationship between e-government development and business competitiveness of a nation. Human capital and public institutions positively moderate this relationship whereas macroeconomic environment marginally moderates the relationship in the negative direction. In contrast to this, the relationship between e-participation and business competitiveness is positively moderated only by national human capital. Further, we also analyze the combined relationship of e-government development and e-participation (egovernment maturity) with national business competitiveness and observe that e-government maturity is also significantly related to national business competitiveness. Through this research, we make some important contributions that have implications for research and practice.

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Section: Business Competitivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E-government Impactmentioning

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The Relationship between E-Government and National Competitiveness: The Moderating Influence of Environmental Factors

Srivastava¹,

Teo²

2008

CAIS

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“…Government organizations can encourage farmers to participate in e-commerce through policies and also provide training to improve their information literacy. Farhoomand et al [17] argue that some problems encountered in the development of rural e-commerce can only be solved through the role of the government. Zeng et al [18] argue that the government should provide farmers with some policy measures, such as credit taxation and professional skills training, to reasonably control the digital dividend gap.…”

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WeChat E-Commerce, Social Connections, and Smallholder Agriculture Sales Performance: A Survey of Orange Farmers in Hubei Province, China

Liu,

Wang

2023

Agriculture

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WeChat is a social media widely used in rural China because of its operability and simplicity. This paper contributes to the role of WeChat in rural e-commerce. Based on 406 orange farmers’ survey data from Hubei Province, China, we used the Heckman model to analyze the factors that influence farmers’ participation in WeChat e-commerce and estimate the impacts of WeChat e-commerce on farmers’ sales performance. We found that information literacy and social connections are important factors affecting farmers’ participation in WeChat e-commerce. WeChat e-commerce has a positive effect on farmers’ sales performance, and the social connections between farmers and consumers can reinforce this effect. Particularly, the beneficial effects are more prominent for farmers with a higher level of Internet development, who operate on a smaller scale, and who are less educated. The results show that WeChat e-commerce improves sales performance mainly by increasing the quantity of sales and the profit rate. These findings will help countries like China to use daily social media to develop rural e-commerce.

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Marketing setting up peer-to-peer electronic platforms to overcome generational barriers to participation in the sharing economy

Pelech,

Dědková

2024

Electron Commer Res

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The sharing economy offers potential economic, social, and environmental benefits, yet participation is not universal. Our research, based on a survey of 873 individuals across three generations in the Czech Republic, investigates the barriers that limit engagement and how these vary across different generations. We examine supply and demand side barriers, identifying four key components on each side (Principal Component Analysis). On the supply side, these include user uncertainty, personal uncertainty, uncertainty from lack of information, and uncertainty from the platform. On the demand side, we identified user uncertainty, personal uncertainty, uncertainty from perceived value, and uncertainty from operational risks. Our findings reveal significant generational differences concerning these barriers. On the supply side, the first three components show statistically significant differences between generations. On the demand side, we found substantial differences for the second and fourth components. The implications of our research suggest that peer-to-peer platforms could benefit from employing generational marketing strategies to address these barriers, thereby increasing their e-commerce volume.

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The Building of a New Business Ecosystem: Sustaining National Competitive Advantage Through Electronic Commerce

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

The Relationship between E-Government and National Competitiveness: The Moderating Influence of Environmental Factors

The Relationship between E-Government and National Competitiveness: The Moderating Influence of Environmental Factors

WeChat E-Commerce, Social Connections, and Smallholder Agriculture Sales Performance: A Survey of Orange Farmers in Hubei Province, China

Marketing setting up peer-to-peer electronic platforms to overcome generational barriers to participation in the sharing economy

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