Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Info-tech and Info-net, 2001. Proceedings. ICII 2001 - Beijing. 2001 International Conferences on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7010-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICII.2001.983002
