IT for future e-business management

Abstract

Information technology (IT) plays an important role in e-Business management. It enables the development of e-Business information systems and affects the way of how the e-Business is conducted. To support e-Business based organizations in achieving excellence and the competitive edge, IT for Future E-Business Management must rise to new challenges by providing tools to analyse large volumes of data from various sources and support decision making, generating models for investigating factors in fast growing e-Commerce sectors, and developing mechanisms for improving the efficiency of processes, etc. The special issue of Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) relates to IT for Future E-Business Management. The motivation for this special issue is to broaden our horizon in the latest information technologies for future e-Business management. The special issue attracted a range of high quality submissions from researchers working in the areas. This issue consists of six highquality papers selected and extended from the 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2013). All submissions were considered and subjected to a rigorous review process according to ISeB standards. The first paper, by Chen-Fang Tsai et al., proposes an adaptive mechanism that incorporates a wide range of green component design (GCD) strategies to improve the availability efficiency of GCD processes. The concept of green manufacturing is introduced to E-Business which is different from traditional cost driven business model. A self-adjusting mechanism to enhance the versatility and generality of a