Evaluating e-business adoption: Opportunities and threats

Abstract

Electronic Business (E-Business) is a challenging practice due to the many aspects it involves. Many organizations have adopted EBusiness to respond to several business drivers. The rapid changes in the political, economic and technical fields are creating new business environments, in which E-Business is considered a normal practice. A variety of business threats are facing organizations that do not adopt EBusiness early enough. Our emphasis is on the E-Commerce field and we perceive E-Business as the broadest form of E-Commerce. This paper attempts to model the business environment and evaluate its competitive characteristics by measuring technology’s necessity and business threats. The paper adopted a qualitative measurement of the position of an organization with respect to its adoption of E-Business.