ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces such a tool a three-dimensional classification space of e-business characteristics. It explains how the three classification dimensions are complemented by a fourth dimension, which is the analysis dimension. Having multiple dimensions allows us to use a clear separation of concerns in classifying an e-business scenario. Business-to-business networked e-business is from an economic perspective by far the most important form of networked e-business in the party's dimension. In personal mobility Business-to-consumer networked e-business is currently emerging fast. Consumer-to-consumer networked e-business is the scenario where two customers engage in a business transaction through an electronic channel. It applies the classification to three the running cases Perfect Office Solutions House (POSH), Talk Through Us (TTU) and TraXP to have concrete examples of the introduced concepts. The chapter establishes the values in the dimension and then discusses the interesting values. It discusses the first three classes of goods in more detail in the following sections to analyze their characteristics in e-business.
