Year: 2013
Type: review
Study design: Systematic Review
Abstract: During the Web era e-procurement has witnessed a steep rise in marketplace deployment; this has been followed by a substantial number of failures.A number of larger technology providers are now left to support both small and large businesses.Flexibility has been a key enabler in supporting network evolution across a varied number of domains.The aim of this study is to investigate flexibility around marketplace evolution, success and failure.In particular, explore the inter-relationships between architectural flexibility and the evolving Web and Internet.A systematic literature review (SLR) was carried out in order to uncover the changes that have taken place over the past fifteen years.A conceptual model is produced early in the research in order to provide contextual underpinning.We employed a manual search of 5 journals.Of the 22 relevant studies, one addressed research trends around e-procurement in pharmaceutical organizations.Three addressed eprocurement in financial organizations.A number of flexibility categories are uncovered by the SLR and then used as a means to support flexible e-procurement marketplace (EPM) design and adoption, recognising EPM evolution over the volatile study period.Flexibility categories are uncovered and comprise technical, organisational, environmental and strategic (TOES) concerns.
Authors: Sara Robaty Shirzad, David Bell
Institution: Brunel University of London
Language: English
Subfield: Business and International Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,207
OpenAlex ID: W2111291569