B2B E-commerce and the South African Horticultural Export Industry: current status and future directions
Published by: University of Stellenbosch
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Published by: London School of Economics and Political Science
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Paper prepared for Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) International Conference - Maastricht, October 13-16
Published by: London School of Economics
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is widely believed to promise a radical change in the way that firms trade with one another. B2B e-commerce applications are being promoted as tools that will enable producer firms in developing countries to reduce their costs substantially, thereby easing their access to global markets. The vision of B2B e-commerce is driven by a simple idea. The Internet provides an open global network and access to this network is relatively cheap. Internet-based B2B e-commerce should help producers in developing countries obtain better information on global markets and give them direct access to new customers.
Published by: IDS
The paper seeks to address two broad, albeit related, research questions; are leading export-oriented garment producers in South Africa using business to business e-commerce to: (1) expand their reach into new markets, and (2) prepare and complete transactions with overseas buyers?
Published by: Institute for Development Studies
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to make vast amounts of information available to users located in various parts of the world and to facilitate rapid communication between them. One application of these technologies is in the development of ‘e-commerce’ to support electronic trading.
Prepared for OECD Emerging Market Economy Forum on Electronic Commerce, Dubai, UAE, 16-17 January
Published by: IDS
E-commerce holds out enormous promises for producers in poor countries: easier access to the markets of rich countries and higher incomes resulting from these new trading opportunities.