Electronic Business-to-Business Marketplace Transformation in the Chemical Industry: Will the Second Wave Succeed Where the First has Failed?

The global chemical sales are expected to be worth over €6,000 bn by 2030 and this offers a very significant market size for businesses to be transacted electronically. It is generally believed that the first wave of the electronic business-to-business marketplace featured very strongly into the chemical industry sometime in the late 1990’s, but in just over a few years many of these electronic marketplaces started to close down or being merged with others, and later on they too disappeared from the chemical industry. Many of them had failed to sustain themselves in the marketplace and survived. From 2005 onwards, it became apparent that the second wave of electronic marketplaces started to enter the chemical industry again. Electronic marketplaces were being set up by chemical manufacturers and distributors, with many of them even setting up multiple web storefronts, to promote their products. This research will look into the chemical distribution market size, supply chain activities, as well as the various electronic marketplaces present in the chemical industry. The Author will investigate into the reasons why the first wave of chemical electronic marketplaces did not manage to sustain themselves in the market and the possible reasons for their failure. The types of electronic marketplaces during the second wave were investigated in great detail. What are the differences in the types of electronic platforms in the second wave and will they stand a chance to survive this time round, when many of them have failed in the first wave? This research will attempt to investigate the possible strategies through the digital marketplace, by both chemical manufacturers and distributors, in their effort to capture greater market share.

Retrieval Files in Business Objects using Cloud Collaborative E-business

Everything stored on the cloud could potentially be a knowledge source used for e-business. Given learners' profiles, desires and feedback on what they have already learned, a new form of personalized e-business emerges, namely Cloud collaborative E-business (CeL). CeL should be able to choose from structured to totally unstructured business material but needs to make them useful for each individual. Existing metadata standards cannot facilitate composition of personalized business paths as a series of business objects. In this paper, we present the structure of CeL Business Objects (CeLLOs), which include an additional set of metadata suitable for each phase of CeL development. Keywords: Cloud collaborative E-business, computing for Education, Electronic Business

E-Commerce Adoption

Dari tahun ke tahun perkembangan teknologi di dunia sudah merubah tata cara kerja dan berkehidupan dari perusahaan ataupun individual karena begitu pesatnya kemajuan teknologi tersebut. Munculnya berbagai macam teknologi seperti internet, smartphone, dan lain-lain berhasil memunculkan berbagai inovasi yang diciptakan oleh perusahaan demi beradaptasi dalam perubahan yang merupakan dampak dari perkembangan teknologi yang pesat. Peralihan dari tata cara kerja secara tradisional menjadi modern menggunakan teknologi sudah menjadi kewajiban yang harus dilakukan dalam upaya untuk sustain mengikuti arus perkembangan zaman. Penerapan teknologi ini sendiri ke dalam perusahaan bisa kita sebut sebagai electronic business yang berarti perusahaan memanfaatkan jaringan elektronik dan teknologi untuk dapat membantu proses bisnis atau sistem bisnis (Mohan Sawhney & Jeff Zabin, 2008).

Pelayanan izin usaha secara one single submission di Aceh Barat

T The article talks about the electronic business license service provided by the One Single Submission (OSS) application, which has been implemented at the West Aceh Regency's Office of Investment and One Stop Integrated Services (DPMPTSP). One Single Submission (OSS) One form of public service implementation that implements E-Government. This paper applied qualitative research methods to investigate the phenomena that occur in electronic services. The study's findings show that licensing services try to use the One Single Submission (OSS) application, as evidenced by several research indicators, including OSS's ease of use, trust in business actors' privacy security, service officers' assistance, the OSS website, and the service's content and appearance. OSS that is comprehensive and simple to comprehend. It may be stated that electronic services implementing OSS have been running properly at the West Aceh Regency Investment and One-Stop Service Office.

Digital Literacy and Electronic Business

Digital literacy is a term that traditionally describes the extent to which a person is able to use interactive digital devices for living and working, such as computers and smartphones, as well as services delivered through these devices. The advent of the digital society at large and electronic business, specifically in the past decades, has broadened the use of digital devices beyond the isolated uses of working and simple communication; this advent has created digital ecosystems in which workers and consumers are embedded to various degrees, such as social media platforms or integrated shopping and media platforms. This embedding implies that a traditional, narrow notion of digital literacy needs to be extended and made more precise. For this purpose, we use the related notions of digital dexterity, digital proficiency and digital awareness. The term digital dexterity describes the extent to which an individual can handle or operate digital devices or services from a physical perspective. The term digital proficiency describes the extent to which an individual can use digital means to effectively and efficiently facilitate their living and working. The term digital awareness describes the extent to which individuals can understand what their position in digital ecosystems is, including the opportunities and threats of participating in these ecosystems. Digital literacy in the modern, broad interpretation is then the combination of digital dexterity, digital proficiency and digital awareness.

Liability for Right Holders to Electronic Marks (E-Commerce) on the Commercialization of Individual Trade Actions in Electronic Business Transactions

The type of research used in this research is normative legal research. So, in fact, the principle of proportionality is an alternative solution for electronic brand rights holders (e-commerce), which provides legal protection based on the first to file principle system given to registered trademark rights holders who have good intentions, are preventive or repressive. On the other hand, it’s necessary to guarantee legal certainty to be able to provide accountability when there are ties or agreements in electronic business transactions in the field of trade and other trading businesses, so as to guarantee a sense of security and comfort in investing and doing business in the world of digitalization and e-commerce.

Assessing the Impact of Electronic Business on the Performance of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in Kumasi, Ghana

The study evaluated how electronic business impacted the performance of a selected small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kumasi. A convenient sample of 50 SMEs in wholesale and retail of consumer goods in Kumasi were selected at random to be surveyed; however, only 30 responded. Structured questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data from the participants to answer the research questions. The results were statistically analyzed to draw conclusions. The results revealed that, to a large extent, the businesses used e-business methods in several ways to undertake five categories of business activities which include advertising, customer support service, marketing, payment system, and order and delivery. Several factors influenced the adoption and use of e-business methods by the businesses, but the most influencing ones were the businesses’ customers’ low use of e-business and telecommunications services not being very dependable. It was also discovered that the adoption and use of e-business made positive impact on the businesses’ performance. It is therefore recommended that more SMEs be encouraged and assisted to fully embrace the use of e-business.

PELAKSANAAN IZIN USAHA SECARA ELEKTRONIK SEBAGAI UPAYA PENINGKATAN INVESTASI DI INDONESIA

The implementation of electronic business licensing with the aim of encouraging and increasing investment in Indonesia. However, the entire process is still not managed online and the sharing of data that has not been integrated between agencies allows the licensing process to still exist and have long obstacles. This study aims to explain the implementation of business providing services in Indonesia according to Government Regulation Number 24 of 2018 concerning Electronic Business Licensing Services and explain the obstacles to investment licensing in Indonesia based on PP No. 24 of 2018 concerning electronic licensing services with legal certainty. This research uses a descriptive-analytical method with a normative juridical approach. This study explains that investment licensing in Indonesia has not gone well because there are still obstacles such as aspects of regulation, system, and management. So this does not provide legal certainty guarantees to investors who will carry out investment activities in Indonesia. It is hoped that this research will provide a solution to the problem of investment and investment licensing in Indonesia.Abstrak: Penyelenggaraan perizinan berusaha secara elektronik oleh pemerintah dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mempercepat dan meningkatkan penanaman modal di Indonesia. Namun seluruh proses masih belum diurus secara online dan data sharing yang belum terintegrasi antar instansi mengakibatkan proses perizinan masih menemui hambatan dan birokrasi yang panjang. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan implementasi layanan pemberian izin berusaha di Indonesia menurut Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 24 Tahun 2018 tentang Pelayanan Perizinan Berusaha Secara Elektronik, dan menjelaskan hambatan perizinan investasi di Indonesia berdasarkan PP No. 24 tahun 2018 tentang pelayanan perizinan berusaha secara elektronik hubungannya dengan asas kepastian hukum. Pada penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analitis dengan pendekatan yuridis normatif. Hasil penelitian ini menjelaskan implementasi perizinan investasi di Indonesia belum berjalan baik, karena masih terdapat hambatan-hambatan seperti aspek regulasi, sistem, dan tata laksana. Sehingga hal tersebut belum memberikan jaminan kepastian hukum kepada investor yang akan melakukan aktivitas investasi di Indonesia. Diharapkan melalui penelitian ini dapat memberikan solusi terhadap masalah perizinan investasi dan penanaman modal di Indonesia.

Financial Innovation in Digital Payment with WeChat towards Electronic Business Success

Financial innovation and advances in payment systems are important not only to boost remittances but also to foster the successful development of electronic businesses around the world. As such, many leading companies in electronic commerce are putting a great deal of effort into the development of their payment system to attract more users and compete with other leading companies in the market. WeChat is a social communication tool that introduced a payment function widely adopted as a third-party payment in China nowadays. The purpose of this study was to adopt WeChat as a case study to identify the influential factors that impact consumers’ intention to adopt it as digital payment. We identified several core influential factors including service quality, perceived risk, perceived security, perceived ease of use, social influence, compatibility, and age. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed to investigate how influential factors affect the adoption of this third-party digital payment platform. The results revealed that all identified factors have a significant influence on consumer’s intention to use digital payment, except age. This study also provided useful advice for digital payment improvement and recommendations to enhance digital payment for the success of electronic business operations. The paper provides new insight into the factors influencing consumers’ intention to use mobile digital payment.