ABSTRACT
The e-business domain is a complex field in which many elements and aspects play a role and in which many interrelationships exist. To explore e-business scenarios in this domain in a well-structured, systematic way, we need an instrument to clearly organize the relevant characteristics of these scenarios. In other words, we need a tool enabling us to clearly classify specific e-business scenarios. In this chapter, we introduce such a tool: a three-dimensional classification space of e-business characteristics. In the first section below, we describe the nature and structure of this three-dimensional space. In the next three sections, we go into the details of each of the three classification dimensions identified.
