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	Title:	Electronic marketplaces and innovation: the Canadian experience
	Author:	Philip Rosson, Charles Davis
	Address:	School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University, 6152 Coburg Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 1Z5, Canada. ' Faculty of Business, University of New Brunswick – Saint John, P.O. Box 5050, 1 Tucker Park Road, Saint John, New Brunswick E3L 4L5, Canada
	Journal:	International Journal of Information Technology and Management 2004 - Vol. 3, No.1  pp. 41 - 58
	Abstract:	This paper examines electronic marketplaces as one ''digital economy'' innovation. Great expectations existed for electronic marketplaces in the late 1990s, leading to the establishment of hundreds of new venues for B2B buying and selling. It was feared that the improved efficiency over traditional market mechanisms meant existing business relationships and methods were doomed. Another concern was voiced; namely that smaller nations and peripheral regions would lose trade to electronic marketplaces in central locations. These issues are examined in a study of electronic marketplace innovation in Canada, leading to an assessment of their prospects there, as well as more generally.
	Keywords:	electronic marketplaces; innovation; B2B; Canada; SMEs; international trade; e-commerce.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJITM.2004.004784
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