Volume 5
Volume 5, Number 16 |
May 25, 2007 |
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Jennifer Pfitscher
June Wei
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Abstract: This paper develops e-value and e-customer chains in terms of e-business to show how Information Technology (IT) could be adopted in the apparel retail industry. The analysis of e-business is classified as business-to-business, business-to-customer, customer-to-business, and customer-to-customer. Items in these four e-business types are classified to show the IT solutions in apparel retail industry. The analysis of these items was performed on the top ten dominant companies in the U.S. apparel retail industry to illustrate the current status of IT adoptions in e-business. The results of this study are beneficial to decision makers and managers in the retail industry to make better decisions on e-business and IT adoptions.
Keywords: apparel retail industry, retail industry, value chain, customer chain, e-business
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Recommended Citation: Pfitscher and Wei (2007). Development of Chain Management Model for the Apparel Retail E-Business. Information Systems Education Journal, 5 (16). http://isedj.org/5/16/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2005: §3344. ISSN: 1542-7382.)