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Electronic Catalogs in the Web-Based Business-to-Business Procurement Process

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Handbook on Electronic Commerce

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Electronic catalogs [e-Catalogs] are becoming the gateway to Electronic Commerce on the Internet. Most of the research and applications to date have centered on supplier based catalogs. There are at least as many business buyers as there are suppliers and yet little information is available to these buyers concerning the benefits, costs, and managerial considerations associated with the use of e-Catalogs. We examine e-Catalog issues from the business buyer’s viewpoint. We concentrate particularly, on the use of web-based supplier catalogs in the management of procurement transactions. After reviewing the Web-based e-Catalog system design issues, we consider tangible and intangible aspects of cost/benefit relationships when adopting a Web-based procurement/purchasing system [WBPS]. There are some obvious tangible and intangible benefits. However, when adopting a WBPS, it is important for management to address the organizational issues very early on to assure organizational buy-in. We consider the various managerial issues that need to be addressed to assure a successful implementation.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    John P. Baron

  2. Department of Business Administration, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

    Michael J. Shaw

  3. Department of Accounting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Andrew D. Bailey Jr.

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  1. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Michael Shaw

  2. Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA

    Robert Blanning

  3. Management Information Systems, Iowa State University, 300 Carver Hall, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Troy Strader

  4. MSIS Dept., The University of Texas at Austin, CBA 202 College of Business Administration, Austin, TX, 78712-1175, USA

    Andrew Whinston

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Baron, J.P., Shaw, M.J., Bailey, A.D. (2000). Electronic Catalogs in the Web-Based Business-to-Business Procurement Process. In: Shaw, M., Blanning, R., Strader, T., Whinston, A. (eds) Handbook on Electronic Commerce. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58327-8_18

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