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The Three Fundamental e-Business Models

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e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2009)

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This paper distinguishes three fundamental business design patterns: control, cooperation and autonomy. Today, most e-Business designs are not balanced, because they over-prioritize control. Balance is achieved when one basic pattern is the top priority, while the other two patterns are not ignored. This paper explains how to use these patterns to create a balanced e-Business model: e-Commerce, e-Broker or e-Barter. Market forces are now occurring to incentivize companies to become more adaptable. This can take one of two forms: a better balanced e-Commerce design or a shift from e-Commerce to e-Broker. This paper presents adaptive design architectures for e-Commerce and e-Broker, and it concludes by giving several reasons why a balanced e-Barter design cannot be reliably conjectured at this time.

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    Joaquim Filipe

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Marca, D.A. (2011). The Three Fundamental e-Business Models. In: Obaidat, M.S., Filipe, J. (eds) e-Business and Telecommunications. ICETE 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20077-9_3

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