Structuring for E-commerce Success: Integrating Preliminary Cases with Theory

STRUCTURING FOR E - COMMERCE SUCCESS: CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONS University of California, Irvine 3200 Berkeley Place Irvine, California 92697-4650 and Graduate School of Management AUTHORS: Rebecca Grant Research Fellow, CRITO Assoc. Prof., Faculty of Business University of Victoria Email: rgrant@uvic.ca And INTEGRATING PRELIMINARY CASES WITH THEORY First Progress Report JANUARY 2000 Terry Huston Asst. Prof., Faculty of Business University of Victoria Email: thuston@uvic.ca Acknowledgement: This research has been supported by grants from the CISE/IIS/CSS Division of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (CISE/EEC) to the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine. Industry sponsors include: ATL Products, the Boeing Company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon Information Systems, IBM, Nortel Networks, Rockwell International, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Sun Microsystems, and Systems Management Specialists (SMS).

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