E-marketplaces, E-mall and E-tailing
E-marketplaces:
The current economic condition requires businesses to collaborate more frequently and build efficient
organizations and supply chains that reduce time to market and costs (Ross, 2002). The e-marketplace
exists as a collection of economically motivated software agents of service-oriented cooperative
distributed systems. It enables and supports common integration and economic services between market
participants (Ghenniwa, Dang, Huhns & Shen, 2006).
Information technology has enabled, and in some cases have forced, companies and organizations to
reorganize their business models and to reorient their internal capabilities to exploit electronic business
(eBusiness) techniques. They are finding it necessary to collaborate to build more efficient operations and
supply chains that reduce times-to-market and costs. eBusiness is the use of the Internet along with other
electronic means and technologies to conduct such collaborations within businesses, from businesses to
