Literature review on online auctions research DOCX

Title	Literature review on online auctions research
Author	M. Shariffudin, Dr
Pages	20
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Factors Influencing Users Adoption of Government-To Business (G2B) Reverse Auctions System Megat S. Zulkifli Mohd Fuaad Said Putra Business School University Putra Faculty of Economics & 43400 UPM, Selangor, Malaysia Management University Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM, Selangor, Malaysia ABSTRACT Gov...

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Factors Influencing Users Adoption of Government-To Business (G2B) Reverse Auctions System Megat S. Zulkifli Putra Business School University Putra 43400 UPM, Selangor, Malaysia Mohd Fuaad Said Faculty of Economics & Management University Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM, Selangor, Malaysia ABSTRACT Government-to-Business (G2B) reverse auctions are receiving attention as an effective strategy for reducing the price of purchased goods and services. The efforts to understand the G2B reverse auctions has been lacking despite the online auctions being an avenue to create an efficient and transparent public sector. As governments around the world are moving from paper-based to process-based information technology (IT) infrastructure, reverse auctions are beginning to replace traditional paper-based manual procurement transactions. Effectively, the importance of the reverse auctions to the public sector further is underscored by projections indicating that the economic potential benefits include significant deficit reduction as percentage to GDP of 16%, and potential cost savings of 7% to GDP for Malaysia (Settoon and Wyld, 2003). The aim of this study is then to fill this gap. In this paper, literature and published research stream on G2B reverse auctions is reviewed including the eBidding, the Malaysian G2B reverse auctions market. To date, explanations of why public sector procuring officials decide to adopt the reverse auctions strategy are incomplete, as such future research is needed to explore the antecedents of the G2B reverse auctions system. Keywords: e-Government Systems, Government-to-Business Centric Perspective, Reverse Auctions 1...