Chapter
Electronic Marketplace Support for B2B Business Transactions
Abstract
Information systems that link businesses for the purpose of inter-organizational transfer of business transaction information (inter-organizational information systems or IOIS) have been in use since the 1970s (Lankford & Riggs, 1996). Early systems relied on private networks using electronic data interchange (EDI) or United Nations EDIFACT standards for format and content of transaction messages. Due to their cost and complexity, the use of …
Authors
Khosrow-Pour M; Archer N
Book title
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
Pagination
pp. 1335-1340
Publisher
IGI Global
Publication Date
January 1, 2009
DOI
10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch211