Electronic Markets and Supply Chains: Emerging Models, Execution and Performance Measurement

Abstract

This issue of EM brings together some of the best current work available in the area of supply chain management, especially as it relates to the design, adoption and performance of B2B marketplaces and exchanges. When this special issue planning began, the editors’ focus was on examining supply chain implications and technologies. The editors received more than 40 submissions for the special call. We want to thank the nearly 80 reviewers from around the world who engaged these manuscripts and provided clear and helpful feedback for all authors regardless of the final decision. As the initial call suggested and these papers attest, the information technologies in organizational and interorganizational systems that facilitate supply chains is changing the business landscape in fundamental ways. Managers are being forced to rethink and reshape their business strategies, use of technologies, and relations with suppliers and customers as competitive pressures have made faster and leaner supply chains a primary goal for all participants. DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES