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Fast transformation in e-business environments: third party fulfilment adaptation to online retailer demands

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Alexander, Paul
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2010
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Alexander, Paul. 2010. Fast transformation in e-business environments: third party fulfilment adaptation to online retailer demands, in Kommers, P. and Issa, T. and Isaias, P. (ed), IADIS International Conference - Internet Technologies and Society 2010, Nov 29 2010, pp. 287-291. Perth, WA: IADIS press.
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Proceedings of the IADIS international conference: Internet technologies and society 2010
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IADIS International Conference - Internet Technologies and Society 2010
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School of Information Systems
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This is a reprint from a paper published in the Proceedings of the IADIS International Conferences. The conference paper can be found on the IADIS website: http://www.iadis.org

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The paper extends previous UK surveys of third party e-fulfilment (3PEF) providers servicing a new segment of online retailers that has generated new sales opportunities for provision of their particular logistics needs. An index of capability transformation previously developed is applied to 6 Australian cases to determine the mechanism for this capability transformation; that is, the process and incentives for establishing new capabilities, transforming older capabilities, and also discontinuing specific capabilities. It proposes a model in which each sales transaction serves as a decision node at which a capability is established, expanded, transformed or discontinued. In this model, over a relatively short period there will be a large number of sales transactions which will drive evolution of the 3PEF at a potentially fast rate, with sales revenue as an incentive to modify capabilities transaction by transaction.