E-Supply Chain Management: A Review

Abstract

These days, internet-based electronic marketplaces (EMs) are widely expanded all over the world. They emerge in different industries, supporting the various exchanges of goods or services with and for different types of actors, and are following different business principles and models to face up to its competitors and fulfil its ambitions. Most observers have suggested that electronic marketplaces would emerge to prevail over the electronic business area. This article aims to propose a critical review based on existing literature, over the electronic marketplaces and imposes the supply chain management research in respect of this issue.