The Role Of E-Business In Supply Chain

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It is thus challenging to capture interactions between IT and the business environment and consequently provide a basis from which to evaluate the value of e-business to supply chain management. Researchers need an understanding of the phenomenon for theory building and theory testing; practitioners require it for improving organizational processes. This study aims to improve our understanding of ways of capturing the potential of e-business in supply chain management. This licentiate thesis has been made in connection with two research projects by the National
Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES) to Helsinki University of Technology. The aim of the first project, KARKeLO-project (2001), was to propose a research agenda for e-business
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This is done by firstly identifying research and development focus areas that maximize benefits of eChapter
1: Introduction
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business in supply chain management. Secondly, we discover different ways how companies can benefit from e-business in their supply chain operations.
We approach the research problem over the period from 2000 to 2004. During this time, ebusiness development moves from the so-called hype-stage during the late 1990’s and early
2000’s, when a lot of undelivered promises were made to supply chain management, to the era when there are already many e-business implementations that have had an impact on various supply chain operations such as procurement, inventory management and order management, as well as on the overall competitiveness of the companies implementing various e-business applications. This development shapes the scope of this study.
During the hype-stage, many companies were struggling with the question of how e-business impacts the supply chain and there was a lot of uncertainty as to where the development …show more content…

Before concluding the literature review, we also discuss issues that make it challenging to research and understand the phenomenon we are interested in.
After the literature review, we move to the empirical part of the study. First, we introduce the research questions and then provide a brief summary of the publications included in this study and respective methodologies used in individual publications. Then we summarize the key findings of this study and reflect them in the body of knowledge covered in the literature review when applicable. We also present the identified ways in which companies can benefit from e-business in their supply chain operations.
In Chapter four we discuss and evaluate the limitations of the study. Here we also deal with scientific and practical contributions of the study and offer suggestions for future research.
Chapter 2: Background literature
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2 LITERATURE REVIEW
This literature review presents the basic concepts and theories that are essentially linked to

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