Network Enterprise
the shaping of institutions and standards in e-business

The Nework Enterprise project investigated the development of business to business e-commerce based on Web Service and XML technologies.

Specific research questions included:

  1. Does standardisation lead to harmonisation in business practices or does the flexibility of XML based standards facilitate diversity?
  2. Are any actors excluded from the standardisation process and, if so, what are the effects of this exclusion?
  3. How is trust in interorganisational relations assured throught the technical and institutional infrastructure of XML-based e-commerce?
Dr Raluca Bunduchi, Management Studies, University of Aberdeen.
Dr Ian Graham, School of Management, University of Edinburgh.
Dr Neil Pollock, School of Management, University of Edinburgh.
Dr Alison Smart, Manchester Business School.
Professor Robin Williams, Research Centre for Social Science, University of Edinburgh.

This research project was funded within the e-society programme of the ESRC.
  
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