E-commerce between a European and a Chinese company

Author

De Boer, Sirp J. ; Yi Wei

Author_Institution

Fac. of Technol. & Manage., Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

42

Abstract

With the rapid development of the Chinese economy in general, and the Internet in China in particular, the scope for international business cooperation is increasing. This paper presents an e-commerce case study between a listed Chinese Internet service provider (ISP) company and a small Dutch IT company. The analysis employs a "fit" model that addresses the following five fits: strategic, resource, cultural, organizational and technological. In this case, it was mainly the strategic misfit that caused problems, which were aggravated by cultural issues.

Keywords

DP industry; Internet; electronic commerce; international trade; social aspects of automation; strategic planning; Chinese company; Chinese economy; Dutch IT company; European company; Internet; Internet service provider; cultural fit; electronic commerce; fit model; international business cooperation; organizational fit; resource fit; strategic fit; strategic misfit; technological fit; Asset management; Business communication; Communications technology; Companies; Cultural differences; Electronic commerce; Government; Resource management; Technology management; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Info-tech and Info-net, 2001. Proceedings. ICII 2001 - Beijing. 2001 International Conferences on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7010-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICII.2001.983002

Filename

983002