IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/igg/jeco00/v4y2006i1p33-47.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Empirical Study on Usage of Electronic Product Classification Systems in E-Commerce Organizations in Germany

Author

Listed:
  • Sven Abels

    (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

  • Axel Hahn

    (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

Abstract

This article presents the results of an empirical study recently performed in e-commerce organizations. The purpose of this empirical study was to figure out the usage of electronic product catalogs and especially their systems used for product classification, such as UNSPSC or eCl@ss. The study was performed in August and September of 2004 with the help of a survey that was sent out to a selection of those product suppliers and manufacturers where product catalogs are crucial for business. This article first presents the necessary fundamentals needed for understanding the results of the survey. Then, it presents the results and identifies problematic areas that should be improved. In addition, it gives some advice for e-commerce organizations, standardization committees, and further research activities to foster the usage of modern classification systems in electronic product catalogs.

Suggested Citation

  • Sven Abels & Axel Hahn, 2006. "Empirical Study on Usage of Electronic Product Classification Systems in E-Commerce Organizations in Germany," Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO), IGI Global, vol. 4(1), pages 33-47, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jeco00:v:4:y:2006:i:1:p:33-47
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/jeco.2006010103
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:igg:jeco00:v:4:y:2006:i:1:p:33-47. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Journal Editor (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.igi-global.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.